In the UK, as in other rich countries, the `playing-field’ is anything but level and the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality from one generation to the next. This book explores how seemingly mundane aspects of family life – from the right to inherit income, to the reading of bedtime stories – raise fundamental questions of social justice. Taking fairness seriously, it argues, means rethinking what equality of opportunity means.
| ISBN: | 9781447331537 |
| Publication date: | 12th October 2016 |
| Author: | Gideon Calder |
| Publisher: | Policy Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Genres: |
Social mobility Social discrimination and equal treatment |