ABSTRACT
The preceding discussion looked at how class has been put into question as a framework for analysing economic inequality and as a means of understanding social identities. While class may no longer be central to thinking about economic divisions, however, economic inequality clearly still exists: this chapter therefore examines how we might analyse social and economic inequalities ‘after’ class. It turns first to debates that trace social and economic divisions in advanced economies not along class lines but around a range of factors including economic insecurity and forms of social exclusion. The discussion goes on to set these issues of inequality and insecurity in a global context, focusing on the links between poverty, inequality and economic growth.
