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Recommended Readings
Ehrenreich, Barbara. 2011. On (Not) Getting by in America. New York: Picador. Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich set out to discover, firsthand, how anyone survives on a wage of $6 an hour. To find out, she took the cheapest lodgings she could find and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. What she reports is startling.
Grabb, Edward, Jeffrey Reitz, and Monica Hwang, eds. 2016. 6th ed. Social Inequality in Canada: Dimensions of Disadvantage. Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press. This book brings together articles on inequality written by experts in the field. It covers many dimensions of social disadvantage, explaining them and looking at their consequences.
Smith, Dorothy E. 2005. Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People (Gender Lens Series). Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. This foundational text presents sociology from women’s standpoints, and in doing so reveals how social relations of inequality always look different from the top and from the bottom of the power structure.
Stiglitz, Joseph. 2013. The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz exposes the efforts of powerful elites to compound their wealth at the expense of the rest of society. In doing so, he examines the effect of inequality on the economy, the political system, and the system of justice.
Svallfors, Stefan. 2012. Contested Welfare States: Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond (Studies in Social Inequality). Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. Over recent decades, European welfare states have undergone profound restructuring. This book focuses on the link between individual welfare attitudes, institutional contexts, and structural variables.
Zawilski, Valerie. 2009. Inequality in Canada: A Reader on the Intersections of Gender, Race and Class. Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press. Written by Canadian experts on family, education, health, justice, labour, and global inequality, this book examines the variety of domains in which people experience inequality.
Recommended Websites
Canada Without Poverty
Canada Without Poverty is an organization dedicated to reducing poverty in Canada. The leaders of the organizations are people who have experienced, firsthand, the dangers of living in poverty.
Centre for Social Justice (CSJ)
CSJ is a group that focuses on research, education, and advocacy in hopes of reducing inequalities related to income, wealth, and power while improving security and peace.
Equality Trust
Equality Trust is a registered UK Charity founded by eminent social researchers Wilkinson and Pickett to collect, analyze, and deliver up-to-date international information about social inequality and its effects.
Parliament of Canada
www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/41-1/FINA/related-document/6079428
This website provides links to a variety of publications related to inequalities in Canada, including ones related to policy alternatives, services available, income inequalities, support for working parents, and employment services in Canada.
Recommended Films
Inequality for All. 2013. Produced by RADIUS-TWC. United States. Inequality for All is an award-winning documentary directed by Jacob Kornbluth that examines the growing income gap and its implications on the US economy as well as on democracy in that country.