The AIPRIL team organised two workshops to discuss the drafts of a forthcoming book on Belgium’s remarkable resilience to inequality, provisionally titled The Imperturbable Land.
The volume examines why Belgium has managed to combine relatively stable inequality with strong income growth and notable resilience during recent crises. Bringing together historical and contemporary perspectives, it explores the institutional foundations of this pattern, including the role of social corporatism, welfare state arrangements, and a strong, organised middle class.
Contributors presented and discussed their draft chapters, covering both present-day inequality dynamics and their deeper historical roots. The workshop provided an opportunity to refine key arguments and strengthen the dialogue between disciplines, laying the groundwork for a coherent and ambitious collective volume.