CONTENT: Acknowledgements viii Series editor's preface ix Introduction 1 Part One 1 Conceptualizing social exclusion: the political foundations - classical and neo-liberal 19 The possessive individualists - blaming the poor 20 Residuums, underclasses and redundant populations 23 Citizenship? 25 2 Order, solidarity and transformation: collectivist political traditions 33 Capitalism can be tamed - the social market and related Approaches 38 The politics of transformation - Marxist and related Perspectives 41 The industrial reserve army 42 Regulation theory: transition codified - postindustrial capitalism: the means specified 44 Social proletarians - underdevelopment as exclusion 47 Conclusion 50 3 Conceptualizing social exclusion: the language and social science of social exclusion52 Social exclusion as discourse - the language of caring neo-libcralisrn 54 From definition to measurement: 'social exclusion in applied social research' 61 Conclusion 66 Dynamic society - dynamic lives 67 Postindustrial, postmodern, post-socialist?: advanced industrial societies in the twenty-first century 67 The complex dynamics of social exclusion 75 Understanding the complexity of dynamics 78 Part Two 5 The dynamics of income inequality 85 From relative equality to inequality: the phase shift in income distributions 85 The changing pattern of income distribution in the countries of the North 87 Why have income distributions become more unequal? 92 Gender and income inequality 98 Race/ethnicity and exclusion101 The exclusion of the young in postindustrial capitalism 103 Dynamics - the significance of life courses 107 Making it unequal: the role of postindustrial policy 109 The new enclosure 110 6 Divided spaces: social division in the postindustrial city 115 Divided cities - the reality 118 Race/ethnicity and exclusion through space 120 Gender and exclusion through space 122 Age and social exclusion through space 124 Communities? 125 Making excluding space: the role of social policies 129 Conclusion 131 7 Divided lives - exclusion in everyday life 133 Education and mobility in the industrial era134 Education and closure in the postindustrial era 138 Cultural exclusion . 143 Cities of cultural exclusion144 Exclusion and health 146 Part Three Including the excluded: the policy agenda of the third way 151 The Social Exclusion Unit: the new forms of policy development and implementation 152 Speenhamland come again - fiscal redistribution and Welfare to Work 154 Catch them young and give them a chance - Sure Start 157 Rescuing the drop-outs - Connexions in practice 159 Getting the place to work through getting the people involved - New Deal for Communities and Local Strategic Partnerships 161 Conclusion 168 9 Against exclusion: the radical alternative 169 The excluded many, the 'at risk' most, and the excluding few 170 Can we do nothing? Is politics powerless?174 The cultural front: what we need to change - empowerment in postindustrial and post-democratic capitalism 176 Bibliography183 Index 194