FOCUS ASIA: Entrenched Inequalities - East and West

Theories of inequality have so far almost exclusively been based on the empirical example of Western societies or have offered little more than quantitative data. This paper offers an outline of a theory of inequality that is based on the empirical example of societies in the global South and has then been applied to European societies. It argues that the same transformations of social structure take place in all capitalist societies. However, each social structure is unique in its local and national characteristics. Inequalities of class may be more entrenched in the old democracies of the West because they have become invisible under the surface of democracy and formal equality, while struggles for citizenship make entrenched inequalities objects of discourse and politics in the global South.

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