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Poverty and Insecurity: Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain (Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion series) by Tracy Shildrick; Robert MacDonald; Colin Webster; Kayleigh Garthwaite is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Poverty and Insecurity: Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain (Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion series) about?

<p>Winner of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize for 2013 How do men and women get by in times and places where opportunities for standard employment have drastically reduced? Are we witnessing the growth of a new class, the 'Precariat', where people exist without predictability or security in their lives? What effects do flexible and insecure forms of work have on material and psychological well-being? This book is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between social exclusion, poverty and the labour market. It challenges long-standing and dominant myths about 'the workless' and 'the poor', by exploring close-up the lived realities of life in low-pay, no-pay Britain. Work may be 'the best route out of poverty' sometimes but for many people getting a job can be just a turn in the cycle of recurrent poverty – and of long-term churning between low-skilled 'poor work' and unemployment. Based on unique qualitative, life-history research with a 'hard-to-reach group' of younger and older people, men and women, the book shows how poverty and insecurity have now become the defining features of working life for many.<br></p>

Who reads Poverty and Insecurity: Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain (Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion series)?

Author

Tracy Shildrick; Robert MacDonald; Colin Webster; Kayleigh Garthwaite

Publisher

The Policy Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283873741

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, History