Designed for courses dealing with social inequality, this collection of twenty-four carefully selected readings focuses on the way inequality grows where issues of gender, race, and class collide. Written by Canadian experts in their respective fields and organized into six parts, this text reflects the range of spheres in which people experience inequality: family, education, health, justice, labour, and global inequality.

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Valerie Zawilski is a part-time professor in the sociology department at the University of Western Ontario at the King's College campus where she is currently teaching Social Inequality and Introductory Sociology. Prior to her current position, she was a visiting professor in the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium. She also has teaching experience at Wilfrid Laurier University, Queen's University, Trent University, the University of Waterloo, and Laurentian University. She was also a sessional lecturer at a variety of universities in the 1990s. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto in 1996, after having received her MA in the Sociology of Education from OISE in 1990.

A good overview of Canadian studies on inequality. Students get sound background knowledge on current social problems, research questions, methodological approaches, and a good understanding of the interrelatedness of class, gender, and race. -- Professor Sylvia Peacock, University of Guelph