كتاب
Breadline Britain: the rise of mass poverty
| العنوان: | Breadline Britain: the rise of mass poverty |
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| المؤلفون: | Lansley, Stewart, author. |
| المساهمون: | Mack, Joanna, author. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | xvii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Poor -- Great Britain., Poverty -- Great Britain., Economic history., Poor., Poverty. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 1997-, Great Britain. |
| Time: | Since 1997 |
| الوصف: | "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. " -- from publisher's website. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | 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 houseing 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. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn904269407 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-78074-544-2 1-78074-544-3 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014337344.7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9781780745442 1780745443 |
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