Part I: Making inequality part of the political and policy agenda -- Chapter 1. How did inequality as a political issue gain and retain such prominence on the Democratic party agenda? / Keith Gunnar Bentele -- Chapter 2. Coalitions that clash: California's climate leadership and the perpetuation of environmental inequality / Joshua A. Basseches, Kaitlyn Rubinstein, and Sarah M. Kulaga -- Part II: The politics of welfare state retrenchment -- Chapter 3. Welfare state recalibration in France and Germany: what role do polarization and inequalities in people's attitudes towards social policies play? / Agnes Blome -- Chapter 4. Stones vs routines: students and politicians in higher education tuition policy / Didem Türkoǧlu -- Chapter 5. Welfare, punishment, and social marginality: understanding the connections / Marco Brydolf-Horwitz and Katherine Beckett -- Part III: The political, social and economic impacts of inequality on vulnerable groups -- Chapter 6. Crises of social reproduction among women of color: the state and local politics of inequality within neoliberal capitalism / Julisa McCoy, Jessica Moronez, Evelyn Pruneda, and Ellen Reese -- Chapter 7. The persistent challenge of HIV & Black MSM in the American South: racial inequality & the LGBTQ community / Ravi K. Perry and Aaron D. Camp -- Chapter 8. From diaspora mobilization to immigrant resistance: comparing Syrian and Yemeni mobilization against inequality at home and abroad / Dana M. Moss -- Part IV: Mobilizing against inequality -- Chapter 9. Occupying against inequality / Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Teodora Gaidyte -- Chapter 10. Moral economies, mobilization, and inequality: the case of the 2018 U.S. teachers' strikes / Eric Blanc and Barry Eidlin -- Chapter 11. Living down to expectations: age inequality and youth activism / Thomas V. Maher and Jennifer Earl -- Chapter 12. Creative disappointment: how movements for democracy spawn movements for even more democracy / John Markoff, Hillary Lazar, and Jackie Smith.