Between Fault Lines and Front Lines

Katja Hujo is Senior Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland.Maggie Carter is Senior Research Analyst at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland.

Explosive, essential and urgent. Between Fault Lines and Front Lines exposes how the spiraling inequality we are witnessing is not a bug but a feature. It reveals that the key political challenge is not how to rescue people who get “left behind”, but rather how to break up the rackets pushing people behind. It shows that empowering the displaced requires displacing the powerful. It demonstrates practical ways in which courageous policy-makers and determined social movements can together pull power away from elites towards ordinary people. It will shake up today’s debates on inequality, and define the terms of tomorrow’s.

• List of Illustrations Foreword Preface List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes on Contributors Part I: INEQUALITIES IN CONTEXTChapter 1: INTRODUCTION: BETWEEN FAULT LINES AND FRONT LINES: SHIFTING POWER IN AN UNEQUAL WORLD (Katja Hujo and Maggie Carter)Chapter 2: GLOBAL ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES: TRENDS AND DRIVERS (Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Vladimir Popov)Part II: ENGINES OF INEQUALITY: INSTITUTIONS, POLITICS AND POWERChapter 3: SOCIO-SPATIAL INEQUALITIES AND INTERGENERATIONAL DEPENDENCIES (Julie MacLeavy and David Manley)Chapter 4: KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY: INEQUALITY IN ACCESS TO CAPITAL ON WALL STREET (Megan Tobias Neely)Chapter 5: REWIRING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT: ECONOMIC INCLUSION AND THE GIG ECONOMY IN NIGERIA (Kate Meagher)Chapter 6: UNDERSTANDING RISKS OF REPRODUCING INEQUALITIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INCLUSION POLICIES: BRAZIL, MEXICO AND PERU (Roberto Pires)Chapter 7: CITY-TO-CITY COOPERATION AND THE PROMISE OF A DEMOCRATIC “RIGHT TO THE CITY”: EXPERIENCES FROM BRAZIL AND MOZAMBIQUE (Fritz Nganje)Part III: ELITE IDEOLOGY AND PERCEPTIONS OF INEQUALITY:IMPLICATIONS FOR REDISTRIBUTION AND SOCIAL COHESIONChapter 8: ELITES, IDEAS AND THE POLITICS OF INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT (Tom Lavers)Chapter 9: WHO ARE THE ELITE, WHAT DO THEY THINK ABOUT INEQUALITY AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?: LESSONS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTH AFRICA (Graziella Moraes Silva, Matias López, Elisa Reis and Chana Teeger)Chapter 10: ELITE IDEOLOGY, PUBLIC OPINION AND THE PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA (Jeremy Seekings)Part IV: A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT: ALLIANCES FOR TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGEChapter 11: OTHERING AND SOLIDARITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AGRARIAN CALIFORNIA: LESSONS FROM CROSS-SECTOR ALLIANCES FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL CHANGE (Antonio Roman-Alcalá)Chapter 12: BUILDING NETWORKS, BRIDGING DIVIDES? ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF PAID DOMESTIC WORKERS IN URUGUAY AND PARAGUAY (Raquel Rojas Scheffer)Chapter 13: INFORMAL WORKERS CO-PRODUCING SOCIAL SERVICES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: POLITICAL STRATEGY TOWARD A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT? (Laura Alfers)EPILOGUE: ONENESS VERSUS THE 1 PERCENT: ECONOMIC POLARIZATION AND THE THREAT TO FREEDOM (Vandana Shiva)Index