Research Catalog

Title

Breadline Britain : the rise of mass poverty / Stewart Lansley, Joanna Mack.

Author

Lansley, Stewart

Publication

• London, England : Oneworld Publications, 2015.
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

Mack, Joanna (Television producer)

Description

xvii, 334 pages : illustrations; 20 cm

Summary

"Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth - is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs unmet. Based on exclusive access to the largest ever survey of poverty in the UK, and its predecessor surveys in the 1980s and 1990s, Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack track changes in deprivation and paint a devastating picture of the reality of poverty today and its causes. Shattering the myth that poverty is the fault of the poor and a generous benefit system, they show that the blame lies with the massive social and economic upheaval that has shifted power from the workforce to corporations and swelled the ranks of the working poor, a group increasingly at the mercy of low-pay, zero-hour contracts and downward social mobility. The high levels of poverty in the UK are not ordained but can be traced directly to the political choices taken by successive governments. Lansley and Mack outline an alternative economic and social strategy that is both perfectly feasible and urgently necessary if we are to reverse the course of the last three decades."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Since 1997
• Poor > Great Britain
• Poverty > Great Britain
• Economic history
• Poor
• Poverty
• Great Britain > Economic conditions > 1997-
• Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-321) and index.

Contents

To live or to exist : defining poverty in an age of plenty -- Going backwards : poverty then and now -- The loaded dice : who becomes poor? -- Inopportunity Britain : the work crisis -- Punishing the poor : benefits 'big bang' -- Left on the outside : the failure of housing policy -- A problem of riches : poverty and the distribution question -- Hand-to-mouth : turning to charity in a shrinking state -- 'That's my dream' : how can poverty be tackled? -- Appendix : the breadline Britain and poverty and social exclusion surveys.

Call Number

JFD 16-3074

ISBN

• 9781780745442
• 1780745443
• 9781780745459 (canceled/invalid)
• 1780745451 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015376358

OCLC

YBP 2015376358

Author

Lansley, Stewart, author.

Title

Breadline Britain : the rise of mass poverty / Stewart Lansley, Joanna Mack.

Publisher

London, England : Oneworld Publications, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-321) and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1997

Added Author

Mack, Joanna (Television producer), author.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-3074