The Return of Inequality

This highly original book brings in a unique combination of history, classic sociology, cultural sociology and contemporary economics. Savage makes a compelling argument about the legacy of the past combined to capitalist accumulation for race, gender and class, and the making and measuring of inequalities in cities, empires at the global scale while nations decline. Reflection about instruments such as rankings and visualization underpin his thinking about a new politics of inequality. The book defines the emerging field of comparative global inequality. -- Patrick Le Gales, Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics Empirical analyses have documented increasing inequality over recent decades. There have been passionate calls to action. But the analyses and the action need to be linked by careful consideration of just how to think about inequality, including its locations, dimensions, forms, and visceral experiences. The Return of Inequality responds to that need with insight, deep thought, and important new perspective. -- Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University With a wide-ranging, original, and visionary argument and engagingly written, The Return of Inequality is a major contribution, the crowning of an exceptionally productive career focused on the sociology of inequality, social change, and culture in the UK, Europe, and the world. -- Michele Lamont, Harvard University, past president of the American Sociological Association A major sociological contribution to the ongoing global debate on inequality and the return of social class. A must-read. -- Thomas Piketty, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, author of <i>Capital and Ideology</i>