Introduction : social justice, legitimacy and the welfare state / Steffen Mau and Benjamin Veghte -- Welfare-attitude formation from a cross-national perspective -- Social stratification and political articulation : why attitudinal class differences vary across countries / Staffan Kumlin and...

Who toils? : race, equal opportunity, and the division of labor -- Against leveling the playing field -- Against limiting opportunity -- Egalitarianism of opportunity and other egalitarianisms -- Can everyone be esteemed? -- Opportunity for what? : defending the constellation -- Sharing labor --...

At a time when the divide between the wealthy and the disadvantaged is widening, this major new textbook provides students with a critical understanding of poverty and social exclusion in relation to wealth, rather than as separate from it. Raising fundamental questions about the organisation of...