Ben Tippet

Split (eBook, ePUB)

Class Divides Uncovered

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve?

Split makes sense of our world by looking at class society - delving into the deep-rooted economic inequalities that shape our lives. From the gig economy, rising debt and the housing crisis that affects the majority of people, to the world of tax havens and unfair inheritance that affect the few...

Now is the time to fight back against the 1%.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786805966
• Artikelnr.: 58771532

Autorenporträt

Ben Tippet is an educator, activist, and writer. He is currently doing a PhD at the University of Greenwich, researching the causes of wealth inequality in the UK. He is a researcher for The Transnational Institute and has written for Novara, Stike! and Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

Part I: Work
1. Who are the Working Class?
2. Can you Really Earn a Billion Pounds?
3. Zero Hour Contracts and Precarious Work

Part II: Life: Class Outside the Workplace
4. Debt and Money
5. Housing
6. The Authorities: Schools and Prisons

Part III: Politics
7. A Brief History of Producing and Exporting Class
8. Race and Class: The White Working Class, the Liberal Elite and the Nation
9. Solidarity