How Inequality Runs in Families: Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility (Shorts Insights)

by Gideon Calder (Author), Gideon Calder (Author)

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  Paperback
  2016

  $16.51

  In the UK, as in other rich countries, the `playing-field' is anything but level and the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality. This book explores how seemingly mundane aspects of family life raise fundamental questions of social justice and calls for a rethink of what equality of opportunity means.