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A letter in today's Guardian points out that employee ownership would have prevented the Cadbury sell-off.
Labour deputy leader to make inequality a key dividing line with Conservatives.
Bill Kerry's guest blog at Left Foot Forward
Read the full article by Caroline Lucas
You know things are out of whack when an investment bank is considering forcing its employees to donate to charity.
That plan is reportedly in the works at Goldman Sachs, with bonuses, some as high as eight figures, being paid to bankers this week.
Read the full article in The Seattle Times
Read the Time.com Q&A with Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.
Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than city bankers, according to a new method of calculating the value of different jobs published today by nef.
Wilkinson and Pickett's study gave scientific weight to a long-held claim of the left: that people are happier and healthier when they live in societies where wealth is distributed more equally. But the book's influence stretches across party lines and its findings are likely to shape political debate for many years to come.
Read a letter by Malcolm Clark, Director of the One Society Campaign in today's Guardian, about the positives for bankers of losing their bonuses.
Dr Lynne Friedli talks about the impact of inequality on mental health, in a discussion with John Humphrys on the Today Programme - scroll down to 07.33
Banks will be forced to reveal how many of their staff earn more than one million pounds a year, under recommended reforms of the financial sector to be released today.
Kate Green, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, writes for the TUC's Touchstone blog that "if we are to take seriously the issues of child poverty and child wellbeing then we need to tackle the high levels of inequality in this country."
Read the letter in today's Guardian signed by Neal Lawson (Compass), Jon Cruddas MP, Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett and others.
Six million people work for the state in Britain, in hundreds of professions. Find out how their incomes compare, from the top to the bottom.
From the Guardian, Tuesday 17 November
On Sunday, The Observer asked a selection of novelists, critics, politicians, historians and others for their Books of the Year.
Politicians Ken Livingstone and Roy Hattersley, and historian Tristram Hunt all chose The Spirit Level.
David Cameron's speech on poverty, the state and the mass engagement of a new generation of community activists on Tuesday set the direction of travel under a Conservative government. In the Guardian today a panel of social experts analyse the Tory leader's key points.
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