How to Fight Inequality - (And Why That Fight Needs You) - (And Why That Fight Needs You)

Inequality is the crisis of our time. The growing gap between a few at the top and the rest of society damages us all. No longer able to deny the crisis, every government in the world is now pledged to fix it - and yet it keeps on getting worse.
 
In this book, international anti-inequality campaigner Ben Phillips shows why winning the debate is not enough: we have to win the fight. Drawing on his insider experience, and his personal exchanges with the real-life heroes of successful movements, he shows how the battle against inequality has been won before, and he shares a practical plan for defeating inequality again. He sets a route map for us to overcome deference, build our collective power, and create a new story.
 
Most books on inequality are about what other people ought to do about it - this book is about why winning the fight needs you. Tired of feeling helpless in the face of spiralling inequality? Want to know what you can do about it? This is the book for you.

Sommario

Acknowledgements Introduction
Inequality is the fight of our time
Winning the fight needs you
This book is to help you win the fight
Why we need to win the fight against inequality
How inequality is worsening
How inequality harms us all
Journal: The mining indaba and the protesters
How we won the debate
Journal: The IMF research department slams inequality
Journal: Will no one defend the tax dodgers?
Why winning the debate is not enough and we have to win the fight
How we won the fight against inequality before
Why looking back can help us plan forward
When the region most hit by inequality became the region leading progress to turn it around
Journal: 'Organized we are powerful' - lessons from the Brazilian land rights movement
When people's organizing secured an international 'Golden Age'
When the forces for inequality inflicted our biggest defeat, and what we can learn from our opponents
Learning from history in the fight against inequality
Journal: Great campaigns have lots of things in common, but they're not the things we're often taught
How we'll win the fight against inequality again
'It always seems impossible until it is done'
The policies to fight inequality, and how to secure them
Overcome deference
Journal: The unquiet - challenging inequality in Pakistan
Build power together
Journal: Challenging the power of the one per cent at the World Social Forum in Tunis
Create a new story
Journal: Inspiring courage on inequality, the Pope
Conclusion
Journal: The three types of campaigns
Appendix: Who can you link up with to fight inequality
Index

Info autore

Ben Phillips is co-founder of the Fight Inequality Alliance, civil society activist, and writer.

Riassunto

Inequality is the crisis of our time. The growing gap between a few at the top and the rest of society damages us all. No longer able to deny the crisis, every government in the world is now pledged to fix it - and yet it keeps on getting worse.

In this book, international anti-inequality campaigner Ben Phillips shows why winning the debate is not enough: we have to win the fight. Drawing on his insider experience, and his personal exchanges with the real-life heroes of successful movements, he shows how the battle against inequality has been won before, and he shares a practical plan for defeating inequality again. He sets a route map for us to overcome deference, build our collective power, and create a new story.

Most books on inequality are about what other people ought to do about it - this book is about why winning the fight needs you. Tired of feeling helpless in the face of spiralling inequality? Want to know what you can do about it? This is the book for you.

Relazione

"This powerful book makes clear why we cannot rely on elites to fix inequality and why it is up to us, together. Ben Phillips introduces us to the frontline heroes of the fight against inequality, and shows how we have won previous struggles and can win now."
Winnie Byanyima, former executive director of Oxfam International
 
"Inequality would not be a major issue around the world without the work of Ben Phillips. He has helped mobilize people power to transform the imbalances that destabilize our economies and scar our communities. This practical book empowers readers with the data, information, arguments and advice they need to be able to help bring an end to this crisis."
Ann Pettifor, author of The Case for the Green New Deal
 
"Ben Phillips is a stalwart campaigner for a fairer world. How to Fight Inequality is a handy primer to help people to build power together."
John Githongo
 
"Ben Phillips has helped bring global attention to the inequality crisis. How to Fight Inequality is an ideal guide for anyone who wants to help. He brings to the book lessons and stories from a lifetime deeply enmeshed in activism and organising, finding hope not in famous leaders but in everyday people, and helping set out how each of us can get engaged in building a more equal society."
Naila Kabeer
 
"We now know just how harmful inequality is to us all. But can anything be done about it? Ben Phillips's smart new book is packed with powerful stories of change won from the ground up, helps guide us in what we can do by organising together, and demonstrates that a more equal future is ours to make."
Kate Pickett
 
"Inequality defines our present but it is not our fate. In Ben Phillips's crisp guide he shows from past victories and today's vibrant new movements a way we can win. His first-hand stories from 'extraordinary, ordinary people' winning change illustrate how together we have the power to beat inequality."
Kumi Naidoo
 
"Most of us know how severe - and how dangerous - inequality has become. The debates have been won, but the problem keeps getting worse. Now we must win the fight. And there can be no spectators: it is up to you and me to make change happen. As US President Lyndon Johnson once told Martin Luther King: 'I know what I have to do - but you have to make me do it.' Ben Phillips' short, sharp, powerful book provides a rousing call for action, and draws on the hard lessons of history to create an essential how-to guide to what works and what doesn't, in the epoch-defying struggle of our new gilded age."
Nicholas Shaxson

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Phillips, Ben Phillips, Phillips Ben
• Editore: Polity Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 18.09.2020
• EAN: 9781509543083
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-4308-3
• Pagine: 150
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia politica; Weltpolitik, Politikwissenschaft, Volkswirtschaftslehre, Political Science, Politische Ökonomie, Economics, Gesellschaftliche Bewegungen, Bürgerbewegungen, Social Movements / Activism, Global politics, Political Economics