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Karl Polanyi's theory of the 'double movement' has gained great currency in recent years to explain the global growth of contemporary social movements resisting neoliberalism. However, there has been no statistical research demonstrating whether these protest movements represent a more general trend of growing discontent with 'disembedding' markets from public control. This article uses questions from the World Values Survey to construct an 'embeddedness' index measuring public opinion on the desired relationship between states and markets. Focusing on public opinion in 20 countries during the 1990s, the analysis poses three questions: First, is there evidence of increasing global support for 're-embedding' markets? Second, how does such opinion vary across regions of the world? Finally, what is the class and gender composition of this latent countermovement? The results provide substantial evidence of an emerging countermovement in public opinion over the 1990s with complex class, gender, and geopolitical variation.

Inequality of income and wealth has skyrocketed since the 1970s. As the super-rich have grasped the vast majority of the gains from economic growth, labor's share of income has declined. The middle class has stagnated, and those at the bottom have become even worse off. Persistent structural discrimination on the basis of race and gender exacerbates these economic disparities.The Great Polarization brings together scholars from disparate fields to examine the causes and consequences of this dramatic rise in inequality. Contributors demonstrate that institutions, norms, policy, and political power—not the "natural" operation of the market—determine the distribution of wealth and income. The book underscores the role of ideas and ideologies, showing how neoclassical economics and related beliefs have functioned in public debates to justify inequality. Together, these essays bear out an inescapable conclusion: inequality is a choice. The rules of the economy have been rewritten to favor those at the top, entrenching the imbalances of power that widen the gap between the very rich and everyone else.Contributors reconsider the data on inequality, examine the policies that have led to this predicament, and outline potential ways forward. Using both theoretical and empirical analysis and drawing on the knowledge of experts in policy, political economy, economics, and other disciplines, The Great Polarization offers a kaleidoscopic view of the processes that have shaped today's stark hierarchies

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Toward a Politics of Commonality: The Nexus of Mobility, Precarity, and (Non)citizenship -- Part I Mobility and Migration -- 1 More Equal Than Others: Managing the Boundaries of Citizenship -- 2 Refractions of the Nation: The Democratic Impacts of "Chain Migration" -- 3 Racialization of Central Americans in the United States -- 4 The Waste of Globalization's Party -- 5 Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Mobilities on the Tohono O'odham Reservation -- 6 A State-to- Come: Tibetan Refugee-Citizenship and the Nation in Exile -- Part II Labor and Precarity -- 7 Apartheid, Migrant Labor, and Precarity in Comparative Perspective -- 8 Labor Precarity, Immigration, and the Challenges of Accessing Worker Rights: Evidence from California -- 9 Negotiating Indenture: Migrant Domestic Work and Temporary Labor Migration in Singapore -- 10 Pocketed Proletarianization: Why There Is No Labor Politics in the "World's Factory" -- 11 The Urban Exclusion of Internally Displaced Farmers in Medellín, Colombia -- Part III Belonging and (Non)citizenship -- 12 Exclusionary Inclusion: Applying for Legal Status in the United States -- 13 Formal and Informal Citizenships: The Spectrum of Practices and Statuses in Latin America and the United States -- 14 Denizenship -- 15 Black No More: Black Denizenship and the Struggle for the Future -- 16 Imperial Citizenship: Marshall Islanders and the Compact of Free Association -- Afterword: The Politics of Precarity and Noncitizenship under Global Capitalism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index