Globalization and Inequalities - Complexity and Contested Modernities (Paperback)

How has globalization changed social inequality? Why do Americans die younger than Europeans, despite larger incomes? Is there an alternative to neoliberalism? Who are the champions of social democracy? Why are some countries more violent than others? In this groundbreaking book, Sylvia Walby examines the many changing forms of social inequality and their intersectionalities at both country and global levels. She shows how the contest between different modernities and conceptions of progress shape the present and future. The book re-thinks the nature of economy, polity, civil society and violence. It places globalization and inequalities at the centre of an innovative new understanding of modernity and progress and demonstrates the power of these theoretical reformulations in practice, drawing on global data and in-depth analysis of the US and EU. Walby analyses the tensions between the different forces that are shaping global futures. She examines the regulation and deregulation of employment and welfare; domestic and public gender regimes; secular and religious polities; path dependent trajectories and global political waves; and global inequalities and human rights.

General

Imprint:	Sage Publications Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2009
First published:	August 2009
Authors:	Sylvia Walby
Dimensions:	242 x 170 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	520
ISBN-13:	978-0-8039-8518-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization
LSN:	0-8039-8518-5
Barcode:	9780803985186

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