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by MARJORIE MAYO
Well-informed: Melissa Benn [Verso]

 

DANNY DORLING’S Peak Inequality (Policy Press) has been described as providing an all-you-need-to-know guide to inequality in Britain today and it once again demonstrates the importance of his writings in providing a critical understanding of injustice in its multiple manifestations.

 

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