This book analyses what generates the extreme inequalities in rights to income, property and public goods in contemporary societies across the world today.

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• 1 Journeying through Marxism
• 2 Marx’s Economy and Beyond
• 3 A Note on Profit and Inequality
• 4 Making People Work for Wages: Instituting the Capital–Labour Exchange in the United Kingdom
• 5 Coercive Capitalisms: Politico-economies of Slavery, Indentured Labour and Debt Peonage
• 6 The Long Road to Democratic Egalitarianism
• Bibliography
• Index