Overview: Presents a far-reaching, novel, and interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of egalitarianism.Offers illustrative and engaging ethnographic case studies.Investigates, complicates, and critiqueThis book discusses egalitarianism in Scandinavian countries through historically oriented and empirically based studies on social and political change. The chapters engage with issues related to social class, political conflict, the emergence of the welfare state, public policy, and conceptualizations of equality. Throughout, the contributors discuss and sometimes challenge existing not
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