Prelims
ISBN: 978-1-78714-480-4, eISBN: 978-1-78714-479-8
Publication date: 8 November 2017
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(2017), "Prelims", Fée, D. and Kober-Smith, A. (Ed.) Inequalities in the UK, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xx. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-479-820171030
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INEQUALITIES IN THE UK: NEW DISCOURSES, EVOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS
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INEQUALITIES IN THE UK: NEW DISCOURSES, EVOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS
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DAVID FÉE
University of Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France
ANÉMONE KOBER-SMITH
University of Paris 13, France
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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List of Figures
Chapter 3 | ||
Figure 1 | The Evolution of the Employment North/South Divide | 65 |
Chapter 4 | ||
Figure 1 | GBCS Key Indicators of (a) Economic, (b) Cultural and (c) Social Capital by UK Unitary Authorities. | 83 |
Figure 2 | Residuals from an Ordinary Least Squares Regression with % GBCS Elite as Predictor and % NS-SeC 1 as Dependent Variable for 387 Territorial Units Across the United Kingdom | 87 |
Figure 3 | Scatterplots of: (a) % NS-SeC 1 Composition against GBCS Social Capital (Status) and (b) % NS-SeC 1 Composition against GBCS Cultural Capital (High), Both at Unitary Authority Level (Counties and Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area for Northern Ireland) | 88 |
Figure 4 | The UK’s 20 Largest Built-Up Areas by Population. | 90 |
Figure 5 | Gross Value Added (GVA) by NUTS Urban Areas in 2011 and 2015. | |
Chapter 5 | ||
Figure 1 | Median Equivalised Income, CPI-adjusted, 2008/09 to 2015/16 (2008/09 = 100). | 103 |
Figure 2 | Proportion of Individuals below MIS, by Demographic Groups. | 111 |
Figure 3 | Comparison of MIS and Relative Income Indicator, All Individuals (2008/09 = 100). | 113 |
Figure 4 | Comparison of MIS and Relative Income Indicator, Children (2008/09 = 100). | 113 |
Chapter 6 | ||
Figure 1 | Gini Coefficient of Equivalised Disposable Income 2015 – EU-SILC Survey [ilc_di12]. | 122 |
Figure 2 | S80/S20 Income Quintile Share Ratio 2015 – EU-SILC Survey [ilc_di11]. | 123 |
Figure 3 | Changes in the Gini Coefficient and the 80/20 Ratios 2008–2015. | 125 |
Figure 4 | Percentage Changes in the Proportions of Households with Children and Pensioner Households in the Bottom Quintile 2008–2014. | 134 |
Figure 5 | Percentage Changes in the Proportion of Households with Children and Pensioner Households in the Top Quintile 2008–2014. | 135 |
Figure 6 | Inequality versus Socioeconomic Indicators in EU Countries. | 137 |
Figure 7 | Country Composition by Income Deciles in the Total EU Distribution of Disposable Income (2014). | 140 |
Chapter 9 | ||
Figure 1 | Annual Housing Completions in England 1977–2016. | 188 |
Chapter 13 | ||
Figure 1 | The Finished Mural in Bristol City Centre. | 257 |
Figure 2 | One Person Believed the Sun Was Shining for Some People, but Not for Him. | 257 |
Figure 3 | The Mural Shows a Montage of Faces Watching People Working on the Other Side of the Fence. | 258 |
Figure 4 | We Are Walking, We Are Tired…This Is Not Our House, We Are Just Looking. We Have No House to Go To. | 259 |
Figure 5 | If I See Their Bus I Am Always Panicking … Even to Pass a Police Station I Find It Scary. | 261 |
Figure 6 | People Smashed My Head by Stones, They Laughed at Me…In This Country They Don’t Hit You…but They Do Mentally … Is It the Human Right If Somebody Is a Disabled Person to Be Treated in This Way? | 261 |
Chapter 15 | ||
Figure 1 | Spatial Distribution of Immigrants in the City of London (2011). | 290 |
Figure 2 | Spatial Distribution of Immigrants in the City of Paris (2007). | 291 |
Chapter 17 | ||
Figure 1 | The Welsh Labour Market and the Great Recession. | 325 |
Figure 2 | Responding to the Great Recession. | 327 |
List of Graphs
Chapter 1 | ||
Graph 1 | Trends in Inequality: The Gini Coefficient for Equivalised Household Incomes (Before and After Benefits and Tax Payments; Before and After Housing Costs (BHC, AHC)). | |
Graph 2 | Distribution of Household Income in Per Cent Based on Survey Data. | 29 |
Graph 3 | Poverty and Persistent Poverty Rates in the EU and the United Kingdom since the Crisis. | 34 |
List of Maps
Chapter 3 | ||
Map 1 | Unemployment in Britain, a Question of Scale. | 64 |
Map 2 | Results of 2015 General Elections: A Persistent Electoral North/South Divide. | 68 |
Map 3 | Constituencies of Members of Cabinet: Labour Ministers of the North versus Conservative Ministers of the South. | 70 |
List of Tables
Chapter 1 | ||
Table 1 | Selected Figures on Inequality and Poverty in the OECD Countries. | 23 |
Table 2 | Key Poverty Rates in the United Kingdom: Trends Since the Mid-1990s. | 33 |
Chapter 4 | ||
Table 1 | The UK’s 20 Largest Built-up Areas Ranked by GBCS and Census 2011 Populations. | 91 |
Table 2 | The UK’s 20 Largest Built-up Areas Ranked by Measures of Economic Capital. | 93 |
Table 3 | The UK’s 20 Largest Built-up Areas Ranked by Measures of Cultural (a & b) and Social (c & d) Capital. | 95 |
Table 4 | Table of Pearson Correlation Coefficients for GVA 2011 and GBCS Indicators of Inequality at Urban Area Level. | 97 |
Chapter 6 | ||
Table 1 | Redistributive Impact of Cash Benefits and Direct Taxes on Gini Coefficients (2014). | 128 |
Table 2 | Redistributive Impact of Cash Benefits and Taxes 80/20 Ratios (2014). | 130 |
Table 3 | Changes in Inequality, as Measured by Gini Coefficient (2008–2014). | 132 |
Table 4 | Change in 80/20 Ratios (2008–2014). | 133 |
Chapter 9 | ||
Table 1 | Housing Corporation/Homes and Communities Agency: Affordable Housing Programme 2003–2014. | 188 |
Table 2 | Additional Affordable Dwellings: England, 2003/4 to 2015/16. | 190 |
Table 3 | Social Housing Sales England 1980–2016. | 192 |
Table 4 | Dwellings by Tenure, England (Percentages). | 193 |
Table 5 | Housing Benefit Expenditure Great Britain £ 000s. | 194 |
Chapter 12 | ||
Table 1 | Gender Pay Gap (GPG) by Occupation. | 244 |
Chapter 16 | ||
Table 1 | Proportion of Individuals Living in Relative Poverty after Housing Costs in Scotland. | 308 |
Table 2 | Income Inequalities in Scotland (All Individuals). | 308 |
Chapter 17 | ||
Table 1 | Non-Employment, Precarious Employment and Under-Employment by Gender and Disability (%). | 332 |
Table 2 | Hourly Pay Gap by Gender and Disability. | 334 |
Chapter 18 | ||
Table 1 | Unemployment Rate in Northern Ireland, 1998–2017. | 346 |
Table 2 | Employment Rates by Sex and by Age, 1998–2017. | 346 |
Table 3 | Long-Term Unemployment as Compared to All Unemployment in Northern Ireland, 1998–2017. | 346 |
Table 4 | Catholic/Protestant Unemployment in Northern Ireland, 1971–2016. | |
Table 5 | Employment Rates in Northern Ireland LGDs/Religious Composition of LGDs. | 349 |
Table 6 | Distribution of Tenure Type Per Denominational Group. | 351 |
Table 7 | Waiting Lists for Social Housing Per Denominational Group. | 351 |
Notes on Contributors
Breannon Babbel is a Researcher in Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland
Mark Bailoni is Lecturer and Director of the Department of Geography, University of Lorraine, France
Anne Beauvallet is Lecturer in British Studies at Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, France
Emma Bond is Professor of Socio-Technical Research at the University of Suffolk, UK
Jonathan Bradshaw is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of York, UK
Edwige Camp-Pietrain is Professor of British Studies at the University of Valenciennes, France
Paul Chapman is Urban PlaceMaker at PCEU Consulting Ltd, London
Niall Cunningham is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK
Louise Dalingwater is Lecturer in British Studies at Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France
Rhys Davies is a Research Fellow at the Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods, Cardiff University, UK
Abigail Davis is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University, UK
Fiona Devine is Professor of Sociology and currently Head of Alliance at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK
David Fée is Professor of British Studies at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, France
Annette Hastings is Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland
Katherine Hill is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University, UK
Anémone Kober-Smith is Professor of British Studies at the University of Paris 13, France
Stewart Lansley is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol and a Fellow at London’s City University, UK
Mhairi Mackenzie is Professor of Public Policy and Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland
Oleksandr Movshuk is Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Toyama, Japan
Alan Murie is Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Studies at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
Matt Padley is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University, UK
Alison Parken is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK
Valérie Peyronel is Professor in Center for Research on the English-speaking World, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, France
Simon Roberts is Associate Professor of Public and Social Policy and Lead of the International Centre for Public and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK
Markéta Seidlová is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Andragogy and Cultural Anthropology, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic
Eric Shaw is Honourary Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, UK
Sarah Simpson is an Independent Consultant and Director of EquiACT, and Affiliate Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scotland
Helene Snee is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Nicholas Sowels is Lecturer in English for Economics, University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Bruce Stafford is Head of School and Professor of Public Policy at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK
Graham Watt is Emeritus Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Glasgow; Formerly Norie Miller Professor of General Practice at the University of Glasgow
Rebecca Yeo is a PhD candidate at the University of Bath, UK
- Prelims
- Introduction
- Part I Mapping Inequalities in the United Kingdom Today: The Changing Face of Inequalities?
- Chapter 1 Economic Inequalities in the United Kingdom Since 2008
- Chapter 2 Tackling Inequality is an Economic Imperative
- Chapter 3 Inequalities in England: Regional Differences and New Perspectives on a Geopolitical Issue
- Chapter 4 ‘A Classless Society?’ Making Sense of Inequalities in the Contemporary United Kingdom with the Great British Class Survey
- Chapter 5 What the Minimum Income Standard Tells us About Living Standards in the United Kingdom
- Chapter 6 Inequality in the United Kingdom in a Comparative Perspective
- Part II The Equality Agenda then and Now: Political Debates, Public Policies and Outcomes
- Chapter 7 The Labour Party and the Egalitarian Project
- Chapter 8 Diluting Substantive Equality: Why the UK Government doesn’t Know if its Welfare Reforms Promote Equality
- Chapter 9 Housing Policy and the Making of Inequality
- Chapter 10 Expanding Opportunities at School Level in England in the Early 21st Century: A Government Priority?
- Chapter 11 Proportionate Universalism as a Route to Mitigating Health Inequalities? Exploring Political, Policy and Practice Uncertainties in Times of Austerity
- Chapter 12 Gender Inequalities in Britain: Bridging the Gap in Pay and Prospects
- Chapter 13 Disabled Asylum Seekers as Experimental Subjects in a Broader Systemic Agenda of Inequality
- Part III The Governance of Inequality: Local Initiatives and Responses in a Multi-Level Polity
- Chapter 14 It’s Terrible Having No Job, People Look Down on You and You’ve Never Enough Money: Lowestoft Case Study
- Chapter 15 Combating Unequal Inclusion of Immigrants into the Host Society: Comparing Policy Responses in London and Paris
- Chapter 16 Reducing Inequalities in Scotland: Firm Commitments, Mixed Results After 10 Years of SNP Governments
- Chapter 17 Devolution, Recession and the Alleviation of Inequality in Wales
- Chapter 18 Social Inequalities in Northern Ireland
- Index