Colleagues may be interested in this new book by Polly Toynbee, former SPA
President.
Caroline Glendinning
Dear Friends and Colleagues of the SPA,
My new book - Unjust Rewards - co-written with David Walker, is
published this week. (Granta £12.99, around £8 on Amazon). It is about
Britain's growing inequality, and attitudes towards it. It includes a
chapter serialised in the Guardian this week about the attitudes of the very
rich, from focus groups conducted by Ipsos Mori, (funded by the Joseph
Rowntree Foundation and the Barrow Cadbury Trust).
As you will appreciate, this is a journalistic not an academic book,
trying to take academic research - much of it by SPA members - and turn it
into something general readers might absorb, with scenes that illustrate the
growing divide.
It is something of a sequel to my last book, Hard Work - Life in Low
Pay Britain, which I know a number of you put on your reading lists for your
students, because I keep getting so many interesting emails back from them
about it. I would love to hear your comments on Unjust Rewards.
With best wishes from your former President,
Polly Toynbee
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