Description: Further DetailsTitle: Poverty and InsecurityCondition: NewSubtitle: Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay BritainEAN: 9781847429117ISBN: 9781847429117Publisher: Policy PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/19/2012Description: Winner of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize for 2013How 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Tracy Shildrick, Robert MacDonald, Colin Webster, Kayleigh GarthwaiteGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesBook Series: Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social ExclusionRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Poverty and Insecurity
Title: Poverty and Insecurity
Subtitle: Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain
EAN: 9781847429117
ISBN: 9781847429117
Release Date: 12/19/2012
Release Year: 2012
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Poverty and Insecurity : Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Economic Conditions, Public Policy / Social Policy, Labor
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 18.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Tracy Shildrick, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Colin Webster, Robert Macdonald
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion Ser.
Format: Hardcover
