Notes

On cover: With a new chapter responding to their critics Table of contents includes: Part One: Material success, social failure: -- 1. The end of an era -- 2. Poverty or inequality? -- 3. How inequality gets under the skin -- Part Two: The costs of inequality: -- 4. Community life and social relations -- 5. Mental health and drug use -- 6. Physical health and life expectancy -- 7. Obesity: wider income gaps, wider waists -- 8. Educational performance -- 9. Teenage births: recycling deprivation -- 10. Violence: gaining respect -- 11. Imprisonment and punishment -- 12. Social mobility: unequal opportunities -- Part Three: A better society: -- 13. Dysfunctional societies -- 14. Our social inheritance -- 15. Equality and sustainability -- 16. Building the future