The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality

No-Nonsense Guides

by Danny Dorling, Kate E. Pickett (Introduction), Richard G. Wilkinson (Introduction)

"The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality" discusses the positive effects that equality can have, using examples and case studies from across the globe, including many from the United States. It examines the lessons of history and covers race, gender and ethnicity, age, and wealth. Danny Dorling considers, realistically, just how equal it is possible to be, the challenges we face, and the factors that will lead to greater equality for all.

Danny Dorling is professor of human geography at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and one of the leading international experts on inequality. He has written extensively about the widening gap between rich and poor and his work regularly appears in the "Guardian." He is author of several books, including "Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists" and "The Atlas of the Real World."

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, Economics, Social Justice, Sociology

144 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Danny Dorling is a British social geographer researching inequality and human geography. He is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography of the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford.

Danny Dorling has lived all his life in England. To try to counter his myopic world view, in 2006, Danny started working with a group of researchers on a project to remap the world (www.worldmapper.org).
He has published with many colleagues more than a dozen books on issues related to social inequalities in Britain and several hundred journal papers. Much of this work is available open access and will be added to this website soon.

His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education and poverty. Danny was employed as a play-worker in children’s summer play-schemes. He learnt the ethos of pre-school education where the underlying rationale was that playing is learning for living. He tries not to forget this. He is an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences, Honorary President of the Society of Cartographers and a patron of Roadpeace, the national charity for road crash victims.

Reviews

[Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

This feels like a sequel to "The Spirit Level" by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Instead of a focus on the US and international comparisons of inequality and it's consequent social ills this book takes a more historical and theoretical approach. A good companion piece to Wilkinson and Pickett's work, and worth a reread or two.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Make no mistake, equality means Dorling should have access to the same comfort as Bill Gates , not that he should be paid as the much as the new guy at McDonald's, or that the McDonald's employee live in Dorling's home.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great little book to introduce why we should be so concerned about growing inequality. Not so much about how to go about changing this, rather more a rally cry at the end to speak out.

[Titus Hjelm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic little book. The data-driven approach is a good one, but more emphasis could have been paid to ideology, the deeply entrenched beliefs about the deserving and the undeserving, trickle down economics, etc. Socialism is presented as one more extreme case and, historically speaking, the Soviet experiment was hardly a blueprint for equality. More recent examples of socialism in Latin America point to a direction that is encouraging. But the movement needs to be identified and in Latin America they're not afraid to call it socialism.

[Mills College Library]

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