Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality

Let’s Talk Wealtherty

Sarah Kerr (LSE International Inequalities Institute)

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English

Policy Press
01 October 2024

Poverty & unemployment; Social classes; Sociology

The rich and the poor in the UK are subject to radically different legislative approaches. While the behaviours of the poor are relentlessly scrutinised, those of the rich are ignored or enabled.

In this book, Sarah Kerr suggests that we live in a state of 'wealtherty', characterised by the hyper-concentration of wealth and a stark distinction between the rich and the rest. Drawing on evidence from the 1500s onwards, she reveals a long history of government scrutiny of the poor and ignorance of the rich. She contests contemporary policy and practice which disregards the enduring role of the rich in the production of poverty and poverty in the production of the rich.

In pursuit of social and economic justice, this radical book challenges policy makers and researchers to stop talking about poverty and to start addressing the problems caused by wealtherty.

By: Sarah Kerr (LSE International Inequalities Institute)
Imprint: Policy Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781447370550
ISBN 10: 1447370554
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part 1: What Have We Become? 1. Why Wealtherty and Why Now? 2. The State of Wealth and the State and Wealth Part 2: How Have We Become What We Are? 3. Knowing: How the State Came to Know Richer and Poorer People Differently 4. Governing: How the State Came to Govern Richer and Poorer People Differently 5. Being: How Ways of Governing Enabled Different Forms of Self for Richer and Poorer People Part 3: What Sustains the Problem? 6. Producing Knowledge: Think tanks and policy networks 7. Shaping Behaviours: Space and the Visual as Tools of Government 8. Shaping Selves: Wealth and Identity Part 4: Ways Out 9. Ways Out

Sarah Kerr is a Research Fellow at LSE International Inequalities Institute. She worked in higher education for years on the 'other' side and has been operating as a policy engagement specialist for over 15 years.

Reviews for Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality: Let’s Talk Wealtherty

“Sarah Kerr has written an angry, compelling book about how we need to see wealth as a social problem, and end our stigmatising perspectives on poverty. This book will make you see the world quite differently!” Mike Savage, London School of Economics and Political Science “A vital critique of the idea, conveniently promoted by generations of political leaders, that today's mass impoverishment is independent of extreme inequality.” Stewart Lansley, author of The Richer The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor