Histories of Global Inequality

Chapter 1 Histories of Global Inequality: Introduction

Chapter 2 Historicizing Piketty: The Fall and Rise of Inequality Economics

Chapter 3 The Demise of the Radical Critique of Economic Inequality in Western Political Thought

Chapter 4 Products Before People: How Inequality Was Sidelined by Gross National Product

Chapter 5 Inequality by Numbers: The Making of a Global Political Issue?

Chapter 6 Inequality and Post-War International Organization: Discrimination, the World Social Situation and the United Nations, 1948–1957

Chapter 7 “A Pragmatic Compromise between the Ideal and the Realistic”: Debates over Human Rights, Global Distributive Justice and Minimum Core Obligations in the 1980s

Chapter 8 Inequality in Global Disability Policies since the 1970s

Chapter 9 Protection and Abuse: The Conundrum of Global Gender Inequality

Chapter 10 Brewing Inequalities: Kenya’s Smallholder Tea Farmers and the Developmentalist State in the Late-Colonial and Early-Independence Era

Chapter 11 Challenging Global Inequality in Streets and Supermarkets: Fair Trade Activism since the 1960s

Chapter 12 Partnerships Against Global Poverty: When “Inclusive Capitalism” Entered the United Nations

Chapter 13 Third World Inc.: Notes from the Frontiers of Global Capital