Routledge Library Editions: Inequality
Accommodating Inequality: Gender and Housing
1st Edition
By Sophie Watson
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1988, Accommodating Inequality provides a basis for a radical re-think of housing policy and provision in Australia from a gender perspective. It explores the way that housing in Australia helped to produce patriarchal family structures and simultaneously contributed to the ...
Economic Equality in the Co-Operative Commonwealth
1st Edition
By H. Stanley Jevons
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression, this book discussed the possibility of a new and orderly economic system to realize social justice. The author argued that nothing but the complete equality of reward could ensure a stable order. Although utopian in its outlook, the...
Education, Equality and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Bryan Wilson
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1975, the essays in this book explore a particular level at which the concept of equality must be applied if educational equality is to be realised. Whilst each stands independently of the others, there are points of convergence and overlap in the perspectives of the writers...
Equality and Social Policy
1st Edition
By Albert Weale
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1978, this book presents a philosophical analysis of the principle of equality, and is also a study of the institutional implications of that principle in the field of social policy. The author distinguishes between a ‘procedural’ and a ‘substantive’ version of the principle...
Health and Deprivation: Inequality and the North
1st Edition
By Peter Townsend, Peter Phillimore, Alastair Beattie
February 01, 2025
When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the North of England. It relates this evidence to long-term trends taking place in patterns of health in Britain as a whole and explores how far health ...
Housing Policy and Equality: A Comparative Study of Tenure Conversions and Their Effects
1st Edition
By Lennart J. Lundqvist
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1986, this book compares and evaluates the effects of converting rental housing into owner occupancy in the USA, the UK and Germany. The evaluation examines the pros and cons of such conversions. The conversion controversy is more than a technical discussion of outcomes of ...
Middle-Class Couples: A Study of Segregation, Domination and Inequality in Marriage
1st Edition
By Stephen Edgell
February 01, 2025
When this book was originally published in 1980, sociologists had long held the view that the middle-class marriage in contemporary Britain was characterised by role desegregation and marital equality. Middle-Class Couples reported on research which provided a critical re-analysis of this orthodoxy...
Poverty and Social Inequality in Wales
1st Edition
Edited
By Gareth Rees, Teresa L. Rees
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed empirical analysis of the key dimensions of inequality and poverty in Wales, discussing such aspects as the distribution of income and wealth, the housing situation, the functioning of the NHS and urban deprivation. Wales emerges as a ...
Reflections on Inequality
1st Edition
Edited
By Stanislav Andreski
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1975, this anthology of essays focusses on the historical dimension of class inequality which has long concerned both sociologists and social philosophers but has often been neglected in literature. Although Marx is the first name to come to mind when social inequality and ...
Retrieving Democracy: In Search of Civic Equality
1st Edition
By Philip Green
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1985, Retrieving Democracy offers a thorough and systematic answer to the familiar objection that genuine democracy is utopian. The book outlines an imaginary, yet imaginable, society that would be non-racist, non-sexist, and sufficiently classless to support true civic ...
The Inheritance of Inequality
1st Edition
By Leonard Broom, F. L. Jones, Patrick McDonnell, Trevor Williams
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1980 at a time when the discipline of sociology was still relatively young in Australia, The Inheritance of Inequality is an important contribution to the study of social mobility in Australia. The book is based on findings from a survey of nearly 5,000 Australians who were ...
Routledge Library Editions: Inequality
1st Edition
By Various Authors
March 31, 2023
The volumes in this set, originally published between 1933 and 1988, come from sociology, politics, philosophy, economics, health and education. They: Explore a particular level at which the concept of equality must be applied if educational equality is to be realised. Present a philosophical...