List of figures and tables Acknowledgements Foreword 1. Introduction 1.1 The beliefs that uphold injustice 1.2 The five faces of social inequality 1.3 A pocket full of posies 2. Inequality: the antecedent and outcome of injustice 2.1 The inevitability of change: what we do now that we are rich 2.2 Injustice rising out of the ashes of social evils 2.
3 So where do we go from here? 3. 'Elitism is efficient': new educational divisions 3.1 The 'new delinquents': those most harmed by elitism, a seventh of all children 3.2 IQism: the underlying rationale for the growth of elitism 3.3 Apartheid schooling: from garaging to hot housing 3.4 Putting on a pedestal: superhuman myths 3.5 The 1950s: from ignorance to arrogance 4. 'Exclusion is necessary': excluding people from society 4.
1 Indebted: those most harmed by exclusion, a sixth of all people 4.2 Geneticism: the theories that exacerbate social exclusion 4.3 Segregation: of community from community 4.4 Escapism: of the rich behind walls 4.5 The 1960s: the turning point from inclusion to exclusion 5. 'Prejudice is natural': a wider racism 5.1 Indenture: labour for miserable reward, a fifth of all adults 5.2 Darwinism: thinking that different incentives are needed 5.
3 Polarisation: of the economic performance of regions 5.4 Inheritance: the mechanism of prejudice 5.5 The 1970s: the new racism 6. 'Greed is good': consumption and waste 6.1 Not part of the programme: just getting by, a quarter of all households 6.2 Economics: the discipline with so much to answer for 6.3 Gulfs: between our lives and our worlds 6.4 Celebrity: celebrated as a model of success 6.
5 The 1980s: changing the rules of trade 7. 'Despair is inevitable': health and well-being 7.1 Anxiety: made ill through the way we live, a third of all families 7.2 Competition: proposing insecurity as beneficial 7.3 Culture: the international gaps in societal well-being 7.4 Bird-brained thinking: putting profit above caring 7.5 The 1990s: birth of mass medicating 8. Conclusion, conspiracy, consensus Afterword Social evil in 2010 Evils in the UK What to do Notes and sources Index.