Responding to Inequality Today: Eleven Theses Concerning the Redesign of Policies and Agents For Reform

Abstract

This paper addresses two questions: What can be done to address the forces driving inequality in Australia today? And who can do it? We suggest that we need better tools of analysis to understand the current situation and better categories to help understand the links between work, social, and economic life. We go on to suggest, more tentatively, that these categories can also provide important tools for developing new policy ideas. We also show how these categories can guide initiatives directed at mobilising support for a new approach to combating inequality today. The argument is structured around eleven theses.