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Highlights
- By 2024 a majority of parents in the UK with three or more children were going hungry to feed their families.
- About the Author: Danny Dorling is 1971 Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter's College.
- 480 Pages
- Social Science, Poverty & Homelessness
Description
Book Synopsis
By 2024 a majority of parents in the UK with three or more children were going hungry to feed their families. Children in the UK are becoming shorter and childhood mortality has been rising. What part does living with high inequality play in understanding how we have got to the point of peak injustice, when surely the situation cannot become worse?
Although 2018 was a year of peak income and wealth inequality in the UK, absolute deprivation has continued to grow since then, especially after the pandemic.
Peak Injustice follows up the best-selling Peak Inequality (2018), offering a carefully curated selection of Danny Dorling's latest published writing with brand new content looking to the future, including challenges for a new government in 2024/25, the impact of Jeremy Corbyn's legacy, and the implications of Keir Starmer's many blind spots.
An essential addition to readers' Dorling collections.
Review Quotes
"A lot of humanity... [with] basic solutions to the crisis." LabourHub
"Danny Dorling charts the contours of our society with a self evident passion and creativity that not only explain its grotesque inequalities but inspire us to understand how we can radically change it." Rt Hon John McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington
"An urgent, accessible analysis of the genuine peril the UK is in, and what needs to change to get our country back on track." Melissa Benn, writer and campaigner.
"In this book, a world-class scholar of inequality convincingly makes the case that, despite everything, and not just perfunctorily, it's worth having hope." Marcos González Hernando, UCL Social Research Institute and Universidad Diego Portales
"Danny Dorling embodies the conscience of the left in Britain, disappointed, angry but still hopeful. This book raises uneasy questions about prolonged social injustice. A new government should answer them." Guy Standing FAcSS, SOAS University of London
"I hope we've not reached Peak Dorling - we need Danny's wisdom and knowledge to help us root out injustice and work towards a better world." Kate E. Pickett, University of York
"A sobering and poignantly written wake-up call. With his trademark deployment of meticulous statistical evidence, Dorling catalogues the causes of Britain's decline and proposes solutions for real change and repair." David Olusoga, broadcaster and television producer
About the Author
Danny Dorling is 1971 Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter's College. He is a patron of RoadPeace, Comprehensive Future and Heeley City Farm. He has published over 50 books, including the best-selling Peak Inequality: Britain's Ticking Timebomb (2018) and Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists (2014).