Global Inequality

Christopher Wimmer is a sociologist and author. From 2023-2024, he worked as a research assistant at Humboldt-Universität (HU) zu Berlin. He has published several monographs and articles on social inequality, poverty research and marginalized groups, including "Exclusions and Marginalisation" (in: Global Handbook of Inequality, Springer, 2024) and Die Marginalisierten. (Über-)Leben zwischen Mangel und Notwendigkeit (Beltz, 2024).Tobias Rieder is a sociologist with a focus on social inequality, classes, and milieus. Upon graduating from Humboldt Universität (HU) zu Berlin in Social Sciences, he worked as a Personal Advisor to the Senator for Culture and Europe in Berlin from 2016 to 2023.

• List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Inequalities in a Globalizing World: Introduction Christopher Wimmer and Tobias Rieder Part 1 Global Inequality: Conceptual Foundations 2 Shifting Borders: Inequality Between and Within States in the Longue Durée Andrea Komlosy 3 The Global Perspective on Income Inequality Arthur Zito Guerriero and Jakob Kapeller 4 Neoliberal Globalization and Its Inequalities in Question: Reclassificatory Contributions in the Perspectives of Polanyi, Callon and Quijano Alejandro Bialakowsky, Mariano Sasín, Tomás Nougués, Fermín Álvarez Ruiz, Elisa Ichaso and Agustín Bertelli 5 The Double Refinement of Distinction: (Re-)Production of Class Relations in Late Modern Capitalism with Marx and Bourdieu Jan Weckwerth 6 The ‘Middle Classes’ in Latin America: a Reconstruction of Social Changes and Social Science Discourses Bahareh Gondani, Matthias Riedmann and Adrian Scholz Alvarado Part 2 Global Power and Class: Suffering and Privilege 7 Symbolic Domination and the Dividing Line of Respectability: Marginalization in Brazil and Germany Christopher Wimmer and Jessé Souza 8 Class and Trauma under Escalatory Capitalist Conditions: Theoretical Reflections Giorgos Bithymitris 9 Appropriating Developmentalism: the Transmodern Experience of a Community in the Colombian Pacific Basin Andrés Bateman 10 Universities as Elite Allies: Disclosing Global Patterns of Inequality in Tertiary Education across Time Magdalena Fellner 11 Undignified Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Racism: On the Brazilian Business Elite Fabrício Maciel Part 3 Inequalities in the (Global) Labor Market 12 Global Value Chains or Global Inequality Chains? Uneven Power Relations and Rents in International Production Karin Fischer and Christian Reiner 13 The Need-Based Sector in the Global South: Surplus Populations and Socio-Ecological Conflicts in the Peripheries of 21st Century Capitalism Jakob Graf 14 Informal Work in Companies and Households: a Saving Couple for Global Capitalism? Johanna Sittel 15 A Class Approach for Characterizing and Comparing the Experiences of the Working Classes Across Countries Francisco Javier Ardila Suarez Part 4 Social Class and Political Struggle 16 Social Class and the Far-Right Fabio Braun Carrasco 17 Social Class and Socio-Political Camps in Europe Tobias Rieder and Christian Schneickert 18 We’re Not All In This Together – We’re Not All Responsible: a Class Perspective on Socio-ecological Inequalities Hans Rackwitz 19 Investments and Innovation in Different Stages of Markets Globalization Gilberto Antonelli 20 Global Class Formation and the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism Ronald W. Cox and Joshua Gold