Global Inequality

Christopher Wimmer, Dr., Humboldt Universität (HU) zu Berlin, is a sociologist and author. From 2023-2024, he worked as a research assistant at HU Berlin. He has published several monographs and articles on social inequality, poverty research and marginalized groups, including "Exclusions and Marginalisation" (in: Global Handbook of Inequality, Springer, 2024) and Die Marginalisierten. (Über-)Leben zwischen Mangel und Notwendigkeit (Beltz, 2024).Tobias Rieder, M.A., Berlin, is a sociologist with a focus on social inequality, classes, and milieus. Upon graduating from Humboldt-Universität Berlin in Social Sciences, he worked as a Personal Advisor to the Senator for Culture and Europe in Berlin from 2016 to 2023.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Inequalities in a Globalizing World: IntroductionChristopher Wimmer and Tobias RiederPart 1 Global Inequality: Conceptual Foundations2 Shifting Borders: Inequality Between and Within States in the Longue DuréeAndrea Komlosy 3 The Global Perspective on Income InequalityArthur Zito Guerriero and Jakob Kapeller4 Neoliberal Globalization and Its Inequalities in Question: Reclassificatory Contributions in the Perspectives of Polanyi, Callon and QuijanoAlejandro Bialakowsky, Mariano Sasín, Tomás Nougués, Fermín Álvarez Ruiz, Elisa Ichaso and Agustín Bertelli5 The Double Refinement of Distinction: (Re-)Production of Class Relations in Late Modern Capitalism with Marx and BourdieuJan Weckwerth6 The ‘Middle Classes’ in Latin America: a Reconstruction of Social Changes and Social Science DiscoursesBahareh Gondani, Matthias Riedmann and Adrian Scholz AlvaradoPart 2 Global Power and Class: Suffering and Privilege7 Symbolic Domination and the Dividing Line of Respectability: Marginalization in Brazil and GermanyChristopher Wimmer and Jessé Souza8 Class and Trauma under Escalatory Capitalist Conditions: Theoretical ReflectionsGiorgos Bithymitris9 Appropriating Developmentalism: the Transmodern Experience of a Community in the Colombian Pacific BasinAndrés Bateman10 Universities as Elite Allies: Disclosing Global Patterns of Inequality in Tertiary Education across TimeMagdalena Fellner11 Undignified Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Racism: On the Brazilian Business EliteFabrício MacielPart 3 Inequalities in the (Global) Labor Market12 Global Value Chains or Global Inequality Chains? Uneven Power Relations and Rents in International ProductionKarin Fischer and Christian Reiner13 The Need-Based Sector in the Global South: Surplus Populations and Socio-Ecological Conflicts in the Peripheries of 21st Century CapitalismJakob Graf14 Informal Work in Companies and Households: a Saving Couple for Global Capitalism?Johanna Sittel15 A Class Approach for Characterizing and Comparing the Experiences of the Working Classes Across CountriesFrancisco Javier Ardila SuarezPart 4 Social Class and Political Struggle16 Social Class and the Far-RightFabio Braun Carrasco17 Social Class and Socio-Political Camps in EuropeTobias Rieder and Christian Schneickert18 We’re Not All In This Together – We’re Not All Responsible: a Class Perspective on Socio-ecological InequalitiesHans Rackwitz19 Investments and Innovation in Different Stages of Markets GlobalizationGilberto Antonelli20 Global Class Formation and the Crisis of Neoliberal CapitalismRonald W. Cox and Joshua Gold