Description: Sociologist Mike Savage shows how economic inequality aggravates cultural, social, and political conflicts, challenging the framework of liberal democracy. By fracturing social bonds, inequality turns back the clock, reviving conditions we have struggled for centuries to escape, including empire, dynastic elitism, and explosive ethnic division.
Brief description: Mike Savage is Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and author of Social Class in the Twenty-First Century, Globalization and Belonging, and The Dynamics of Working-Class Politics.
Review Quotes: A major sociological contribution to the ongoing global debate on inequality and the return of social class. A must-read.--Thomas Piketty, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, author of Capital and Ideology