A World to Win: Inequality Matters w/ Mike Savage
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week, Grace speaks to Mike Savage, author of The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past. They discuss the renewed focus on inequality in social science and politics more generally, different forms of inequality and how they’re linked, and different theoretical approaches to understanding inequality and social class, from Marx to Bourdieu.
A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory, and action with guests from around the world. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of A Well To Win. This week I am talking to Mike Savage |
| 0:18.8 | about his book The Return of Inequality, Social Change and the Weight of the Past. We discuss |
| 0:24.6 | the renewed focus on inequality in social science and politics more generally, different |
| 0:29.6 | forms of inequality and how they're linked and different theoretical approaches to understanding |
| 0:35.0 | inequality and social class from marks to border. As always, thank you to our amazing |
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| 2:06.8 | Hello and welcome to another episode of A Well To Win. I am here today with Mike Savage. |
| 2:13.0 | How are you doing, Mike? I'm very well. Thank you. I'm a bit hot, but I'm looking towards |
| 2:17.3 | that conversation. Yes. Well, we were just saying I am actually in Colombia at the moment, |
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