The Palgrave Handbook of Inequality in a Global Society brings together 30 well researched contributions focusing on Social Inequality, Education, and Human Development, Economic Inequality, Governance, and Development, Migration, Colonialism, Identity, and Global Power Structures. Combined these contributions offer a holistic understanding on inequality, its varied impact on our global society and the wellbeing of people and planet.

Rajendra Baikady is a Social Work educator and researcher. He is the winner of Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2019-2020) and Confucius Studies Understanding China Fellowship (Post-Doctoral Research) at Shandong University Peoples Republic of China (2018-2019).

Sajid S.M is Professor and former Pro-Vice Chancellor, Department of Social Work, Jamia Milia Islamia New, Delhi India.

Jaroslaw Przeperski is Director Centre for Family Research and adjunct professor in the Social Work Department, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun Poland. He is also an expert on family matters in the Polish Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.

Varoshini Nadesan is resident: Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions and a lecturerat the Department of Social Work in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa.

M. Rezaul Islam is Professor in Social Work, Institute of Social Welfare and Research, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and Academic Adviser at the Department of Social Administration & Justice, University of Malaya, Malaysia.

Gao Jianguo is a Professor and former Head in the Department of Social Work, School of Philosophy and Social Development, Shandong University, Peoples Republic of China.