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Welcome to the book companion website of Danny Dorling’s Injustice - Why Social Inequality Still Persists. On this website you find resources that complement the paper copy of the book, including a summary, all tables and figures and underlying data, further material related to the book, such as sample pages and reviews, and a selection of relevant video and audio clips.

Summary:
Injustice – An introduction (PDF)
A free taster of the book (PDF)

About the book

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In the five years since the first edition of Injustice there have been devastating increases in poverty, hunger and destitution in the UK. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has fallen in the last five years, with more and more people in debt, especially the young. Economic inequalities will persist and continue to grow for as long as we tolerate the injustices which underpin them. This fully rewritten and updated edition revisits Dorling’s claim that Beveridge’s five social evils are being replaced by five new tenets of injustice: elitism is efficient; exclusion is necessary; prejudice is natural; greed is good and despair is inevitable. By showing these beliefs are unfounded, Dorling offers hope of a more equal society. We are living in the most remarkable and dangerous times. With every year that passes it is more evident that Injustice is essential reading for anyone concerned with social justice and wants to do something about it.



Published by Policy Press

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"Rich insights into how prejudice, presumption and a paucity of regard for our fellow human beings reinforces poverty as well as privilege.”
David Cay Johnston, journalist and author, Pulitzer Prize winner


"For decades researchers have shown the damage inequality does to all society and Dorling's wonderful book extends this. With brilliance and passion Dorling analyses the mind-set of entitlement among those who hold ever tighter to money, power and life's best rewards, generation to generation.”
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian


"Think twice before reading this book – you may well become an activist against social injustice, inequality and the exploitation of labour. Danny Dorling gives us words that are weapons.”
Ken Loach, director


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