The Politics of Equality : An Introduction.

By: Myers, Jason CMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Zed Books, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (169 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781848138452Subject(s): EqualityGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Politics of Equality : An IntroductionDDC classification: 320.011 LOC classification: JC575 -- .M94 2010ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- About the author -- List of figures -- 1.1 Stabilization of the US economy through government intervention -- 1.2 Shares of income received by US households by quintile, 1967-2005 -- 1.3 Gini index of US income inequality, 1967-2005 -- 1.4 US productivity and wages, 1980-2005 -- 1.5 US labor union membership, 1970-2006 -- 1.6 Work stoppages, 1970-2006 -- 4.1 Gini index of income inequality, 2005 -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE | Historical materialism -- The materialist theory of history -- Forces and relations -- Class and class struggles -- Figure 1.1 Stabilization of the US economy through government intervention -- Figure 1.2 Shares of income received by US households by quintile, 1967-2005 -- Figure 1.3 Gini index of US income inequality, 1967-2005 -- Figure 1.4 US productivity and wages, 1980-2005 -- Figure 1.5 US labor union membership, 1970-2006 -- Figure 1.6 Work stoppages, 1970-2006 -- Historical materialism and political philosophy -- TWO | Equal freedom -- Equality -- Freedom -- THREE | Economy and society -- Exploitation -- Eliminating the causes of exploitation -- Modifying the effects of exploitation -- The community of equals -- FOUR | Democracy -- State power -- Society without the state -- Political emancipation -- Social egalitarian democracy -- Figure 4.1 Gini index of income inequality, 2005 -- FIVE | Internationalism -- The founders -- From the Second to the Third International -- The International Brigades -- From internationalism to foreign aid -- Internationalism as ideology -- SIX | The privation state -- Crisis and possibility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In The Politics of Equality, Jason C. Myers provides a readable, contemporary introduction to egalitarian political philosophy.
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Intro -- About the author -- List of figures -- 1.1 Stabilization of the US economy through government intervention -- 1.2 Shares of income received by US households by quintile, 1967-2005 -- 1.3 Gini index of US income inequality, 1967-2005 -- 1.4 US productivity and wages, 1980-2005 -- 1.5 US labor union membership, 1970-2006 -- 1.6 Work stoppages, 1970-2006 -- 4.1 Gini index of income inequality, 2005 -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE | Historical materialism -- The materialist theory of history -- Forces and relations -- Class and class struggles -- Figure 1.1 Stabilization of the US economy through government intervention -- Figure 1.2 Shares of income received by US households by quintile, 1967-2005 -- Figure 1.3 Gini index of US income inequality, 1967-2005 -- Figure 1.4 US productivity and wages, 1980-2005 -- Figure 1.5 US labor union membership, 1970-2006 -- Figure 1.6 Work stoppages, 1970-2006 -- Historical materialism and political philosophy -- TWO | Equal freedom -- Equality -- Freedom -- THREE | Economy and society -- Exploitation -- Eliminating the causes of exploitation -- Modifying the effects of exploitation -- The community of equals -- FOUR | Democracy -- State power -- Society without the state -- Political emancipation -- Social egalitarian democracy -- Figure 4.1 Gini index of income inequality, 2005 -- FIVE | Internationalism -- The founders -- From the Second to the Third International -- The International Brigades -- From internationalism to foreign aid -- Internationalism as ideology -- SIX | The privation state -- Crisis and possibility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- Bibliography -- Index.

In The Politics of Equality, Jason C. Myers provides a readable, contemporary introduction to egalitarian political philosophy.

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