Know Your Place

‘A stunning and devastating indictment of a society scarred and defined by inequality, by one of the most charismatic and compelling voices in politics today’ – Owen Jones‘Faiza’s work is living proof that you don’t have to choose between focusing on class and battling racism, or to triangulate on hate in order to advance a political cause. She’s a testament to the power of rising with your community, and not out of it’ – Ash Sarkar‘A brilliant, forensic and also very personal analysis of how unfair life is in the most economically unequal country in Europe – giving power a strong dose of truth’ – Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford‘In this impassioned and thoughtful book, Faiza Shaheen dismantles the myth of meritocracy and compellingly shows that we need to fundamentally challenge the unsustainable and unjust inequalities that abound in Britain today’ – Professor Mike Savage, London School of Economics

Dr. Faiza Shaheen is currently a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics. She has worked as an economist, policy advisor, and political commentator, authoring a range of materials and publications covering salient social and economic debates, including inequality, austerity, immigration, housing, and youth unemployment. Her most recent policy report was launched by the former prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, as well as six other national leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. In 2017, she was named the Observer Rising Star for Campaigning and nominated as Asian Woman of the Year at the Asian Achievers Awards. Faiza has been selected by the Labour Party to contest her home seat of Chingford and Woodford Green against the former leader of the Conservative Party, Iain Duncan Smith, at the next general election.