Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists - Softcover

Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. He is the author of over twenty-five books.

“Intelligent and astute, this well-woven book—reissued this year in a fully revised edition—offers a powerful critique of the ideologies of greed that stitch up society. Without a hint of surrender to the status quo, Dorling radiates humanity, passion and concern across every page. His words are weapons, inspiring me to take action and reminding us of the power of the collective to defeat inequality and exploitation.” (Vicky Duckworth, Edge Hill University, UK Times Higher Education)

“A century ago, amid the struggle for social insurance to protect workers injured on the job, men of wealth and power argued that workers insured against disability would cut off their own limbs to reap the rewards disability protection would provide. Today’s rich and their hired hands seldom get that crude. They spin much more sophisticated myths. In Injustice, Dorling examines—and exposes—them all. Sometimes with figures and charts. Sometimes with history. Sometimes with unrelenting logic.” (Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality)

“The pragmatism of the book, without advocating any grand interpretative theory, also constitutes its cogency: it gives us the feeling that we can start to do something from our very everyday practices, workplaces, and neighbourhoods. The solution can already be right here, right now, since, as Dorling reminds us, the world is constantly ‘metamorphosing.’” (Gaja Maestri, Durham University LSE Review of Books)

“[An] excellent compendium. . . . Unassailable. . . . Dorling is one of the great researchers on the condition of the time.” (Tribune Magazine (UK))

“Dorling . . . demolishes the five tenets that sustain and justify the persistence of social inequality.” (Counterfire)

“Dorling’s text is an invaluable reference that anybody and everybody concerned with inequality, social (in)justice, and the underside to the world in which we live ought have on their bookshelf.” (Marx and Philosophy Review of Books)

“This updated edition of Dorling’s book will remind us—if we needed reminding—that injustice has not gone away, and that in many ways it is getting worse; that there are things that we can do about it; and that we need to do those things.” (Citizen’s Income Trust)

“Rich insights into how prejudice, presumption, and a paucity of regard for our fellow human beings reinforce poverty as well as privilege.” (David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author)

“In this impassioned, empirical, and hopeful second edition, powerfully updated with new data, Dorling skewers the ideologies that justify injustice. He reminds us that to create a better world we have to collectively imagine it is possible.” (Nancy Krieger, Harvard University)

“Powerful sentences and carefully-curated evidence frame critically-important thoughts on how we got here and how things could be different.” (Jamie Goodwin-White, University of California, Los Angeles)