ABSTRACT
This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global South.
Without the safety net of the various Northern welfare states, inequality in the global South is not merely a socio-economic problem, but an existential threat to the social contract that underpins the democratic state and society itself. Only a response that is firmly grounded in the context of the global South can hope to address this problem. This collection brings together scholars from across the globe, with a particular focus on the global South, to address broad thematic areas such as the conceptual and methodological challenges of measuring inequality; the political economy of inequality in the global South; inequality in work, households and the labour market; and inequalities in land, spaces and cities. The book concludes by suggesting alternatives for addressing inequality in the global South and around the world.
The pioneering ideas and theories put forward by this volume make it essential reading for students and researchers of global inequality across the fields of sociology, economics, law, politics, global studies and development studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|52 pages
Conceptual questions on inequality in the South
chapter 1|19 pages
Towards a Southern approach to inequality
part 2|68 pages
The political economy of inequality in the global South
chapter 4|20 pages
A survey of trends in macroeconomic policy and development in the global South
chapter 5|24 pages
Economic power and regulation
part 3|40 pages
Work, households and the labour market
chapter 7|18 pages
The crisis of social reproduction in petty commodity production and large-scale mining
part 4|42 pages
Land, space and cities
chapter 10|19 pages
Social reproduction at end moments
part 5|60 pages
Alternatives