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Alastair Greig is an Emeritus Fellow in Sociology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, and former Head of School of Social Sciences. His research and teaching have spanned social revolutions, development studies, technological change and workplace relations, urbanization and housing, and environmental studies. His publications include Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and Practice in the Twenty-First Century (London: Palgrave, 2007) and Inequality in Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). In his answers to our five questions on global inequality, Greig tells his own, fascinating story of relocating from Scotland to Australia at a young age, and how his early sociological work on the clothing industry shaped his views on changing relations of power between capital and labor in a globalized world economy.
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Greig, A. (2023). How the Global Movement of Money and People Turns the World Upside Down. In: Christiansen, C.O., Machado-Guichon, M.L., Mercader, S., Hunt, O.B., Jha, P. (eds) Talking About Global Inequality. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08042-5_9
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