UK School kids and the crushing hammer blows of inequality!

Yeah, so basically you're all doomed to a life of grinding poverty, unless you've got rich parents in which case you're laughing!

Read it here, then print it out to use as a blanket to protect you from the icy winds of poverty and despair.

£13tn hoard hidden from taxman by global elite

'Study estimates staggering size of offshore economy.  Private banks help wealthiest to move cash into havens.'  The Guardian

'Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, new research reveals.

A far-reaching new study suggests a staggering $21tn in assets has been lost to global tax havens. If taxed, that could have been enough to put parts of Africa back on its feet – and even solve the euro crisis'   The Guardian


Price of Inequality By Joseph Stiglitz - Book


What is 'trickle down theory'?  Wiki!

After Austerity: the widening gap between rich and poor - video

The economist Dean Baker and the TUC's Nicola Smith discuss why the economic gains of the past 30 years have gone disproportionately to the wealthiest section of society. Interviewed by Tom Clark at the TUC's After Austerity conference, they weigh up the arguments for capping executive pay, the provision of government tax credits and an increase in the minimum wage

video

In 1987 I returned to a country beset by class and inequality. And it still is.

'In 1987 the Observer's Robert Chesshyre returned from the US and was so shocked at Thatcher's Britain that he wrote a book about it. Now it has been republished in an era that remains eerily similar'   Here!


Why economic inequality leads to collapse.

'During the past 30 years, a growing share of the global economic pie has been taken by the world's wealthiest people. In the UK and the US, the share of national income going to the top 1% has doubled, setting workforces adrift from economic progress. Today, the world's 1,200 billionaires hold economic firepower that is equivalent to a third of the size of the American economy.'  Here!

Return to capitalism 'red in tooth and claw' spells economic madness

'Particularly in the United States and Britain since the 1980s, we have witnessed a return to the capitalism "red in tooth and claw" depicted by Karl Marx. The rich and very rich have become very much richer, while everyone else's incomes have stagnated'.

Here!

Child poverty figures drop, but remain above 2 million

Article here





I only parked it there for a minute!



Inequality and Stratification - Reading resources

Basic Concepts - Inequality and Stratification

Inequality and Gender

Article on US income inequality

Mother Jones Magazine

Check out the funky infographics, people!

The Poverty Site

This site monitors what is happening to poverty and social exclusion in the UK. The material is organised around 100 statistical indicators covering all aspects of the subject, from income and work to health and education.

Poverty.org 

Look at the links on the left of their pages for graphs and info on gender/ethnicity/age related to inequality etc.

Dorling and Weber

Just a couple of links to look at...

Danny Dorling - Why Social Inequality Persists

Max Weber, one of the three main "fathers of sociology," contributed to our understanding of the sociological perspective, to the nature of social change, and to the nature of social inequality.

Sociology Blogs - How to really do it.

 This blog is significantly better than mine, 'DJ Academe Teaching sociology with videos'   click here to go straight to the inequality stuff.  Here are a few of the videos...





and this MIA video is just tha bomb, peeps!

Upside Down - by Eduardo Galeano (1998) - A2 Inequality

 

In 1960, the richest 20 percent of humanity had thirty times as much as the poorest 20 percent. By 1990, that figure had increased to seventy times. And the scissors continue to open: in the year 2000 the gap will be ninety times.

Between the richest of the rich, who appear on the pornofinancial pages of Forbes and Fortune, and the poorest of the poor, who appear on the streets and in the fields, the chasm is even greater. A pregnant woman in Africa is a hundred times more likely to die than a pregnant woman in Europe. The value of pet products sold annually in the United States is four times the GNP of Ethiopia. The sales of just the two giants General Motors and Ford easily surpass the value of all black Africa's economies. According to the United Nations Development Program, "Ten people, the ten richest men on the planet, own wealth equivalent to the value of the total production of fifty countries, and 447 multimillionaires own a greater fortune than the annual income of half of humanity." The head of this UN agency, James Gustave Speth, declared in 1997 that over the past half century the number of rich people doubled while the number of poor tripled and that 1.6 billion people were worse off than they had been only fifteen years earlier.

Read more here...

How economic inequality harms societies

Here's Richard Wilkinson's TED Talk on Inequality - 'How economic inequality harms societies'

Social Inequality in UK 2

Inequality in the UK: the data behind the National Equality Panel report.  Have we really become less equal as a society? A new study has produced a compelling anatomy of Britain's social secret.

Poverty and Inequality in the UK: 2011   Joseph Rowntree Foundation.  (read the Executive summary, pages 1-3)

Facts and statistics on women's inequality in the UK


Workless families: a convenient untruth - A belief in inherited underclass idleness is spreading, but in reality multiple generations who have never worked is very rare

Social Inequality in US

Will add stuff to this post later but here's

Christine L. Williams Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality




We’re Not Broke, Just Twisted: Extreme Wealth Inequality in America


Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

Inequality.org

Social Inequality in UK

Why Britain's battle to bring down social inequality has failed: 

Danny Dorling's new book exposes the unprecedented rises in inequality that put us on a par with Victorian society – and explains why they endure
Here!

 


Why inequality persists: A new report examines inequality in forensic detail.

Author Danny Dorling introduces the key datasets - and a new set of postcode-level UK poverty indicators

Here!

A selection of material from lectures, presentations and talks of Professor Danny Dorling and the SaSI research group.

Here!


Professor Danny Dorling: Selected Lectures

Here!

Caste System - Social Inequality

 


Here are various links to videos and whatnot concerning the Caste System which relate to the A2 unit on Social Inequality

Wiki page

The Indian Caste System - An Introduction 

India Untouched: Darker side of India: 1  or full documentary here.

Hindu Caste System and Discrimination in the United Kingdom (UK) 

The Untouchables: Breaking Down Caste Barriers in India 

The Untouchables

Is India's caste system a crime against humanity?

India’s low-caste still “untouchables” 

India's Dalits now have a growing role in business

The Untouchables - A short documentary focused on the lowest caste in past and present Hindu society 

Dalit Reality 

Does the caste system still linger in the UK?

CasteWatchUK

The secret scandal of Britain's caste system

Court ruling challenges India's caste system

Caste System in Sikhism

INDIA UNTOUCHED(see link towards top of list above) is Stalin's second film on the issue of caste -- his earlier film 'Lesser Humans', on manual scavenging, won the Silver Conch at the Mumbai International Film Festival and the Excellence Award at Earth Vision Film Festival, Tokyo, and helped to bring international attention to the issue of caste.
'Lesser Humans'

Social Inequality Info Booklet

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/2009-10/sociology/a2-cynnal/testun/testunSaesneg1.htm