Full Description
In the UK, as in other rich countries, the `playing-field' is anything but level and the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality from one generation to the next. This book explores how seemingly mundane aspects of family life - from the right to inherit income, to the reading of bedtime stories - raise fundamental questions of social justice. Taking fairness seriously, it argues, means rethinking what equality of opportunity means.
Contents
Introduction
The family and social justice
Social mobility and class fate
Unpacking equality of opportunity
Towards real equality of life chances?
Seven conclusions
