Photo: Hang Kei-Ho Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield) and Roger Burrows (Goldsmiths, University of London) The usual preamble doesn’t apply to this [...]
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Money costs more when you’re poor
Nigel Dodd (LSE) We are used to thinking of the relationship between money and inequality in rather obvious ways. Members of [...]
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Outsourcing services, co-dependence and elite power
Julie Froud (Manchester Business School), Sukhdev Johal (Queen Mary University of London) and Michael Moran (Manchester Business School) It has been [...]
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Gender Inequality among Political Elites
Jenny Hansson (Birkbeck College, University of London) Women in today’s western society are still less successful than men in reaching its [...]
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Rethinking elites
Shamus Rahman Khan (Columbia University) In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, chants of ‘We. Are. The 99 Percent!’ [...]
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FOCUS: Complexity and the failure of quantitative social science
Photo: Walter Baxter - licensed for reuse CC BY-SA 2.0 Brian Castellani (Kent State University) When I attended university in 1984 as [...]
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Viewpoint: An Old Story of Profit, Power and People – Why We Should Fight TTIP
Photo with permission of World Development Movement Luke Martell (University of Sussex) A US president gets in cahoots with corporations and European [...]
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On the Frontline: Austerity Bites
Mary O’Hara On a bitterly cold day in the winter of 2013 I was sitting with a group of women from [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: Gender Matters in Research
Di McNeish and Sara Scott (DMSS Research) Recently we have been working on two projects – both fundamentally concerned with gender [...]
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Speaking Back To Stigma: social housing and solidarity in East London
Photo: Liam Barrington-Bush Tracey Jensen (University of East London) You do not have to travel very far in the Olympic Borough of [...]
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