How has globalization changed social inequality? In this groundbreaking book Globalization and Inequalities Sylvia Walby examines the many changing forms of social inequality and their intersectionalities at both country and global levels. She shows how the contest between different modernities and conceptions of progress shape the present and future. Globalization and Inequalities is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students and academics of sociology social theory gender studies and politics and international relations geography economics and law.