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23%OFFStewart Lansley - Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty - 9781780745442 - V9781780745442
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Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty

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Description for Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty Paperback. Over the last thirty years national income doubled. So has poverty. Where did it all go wrong? Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 332.

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 ... Read more

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. 

One of Listmuse's Greatest British Politics books

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Product Details

Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780745442
SKU
V9781780745442
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Stewart Lansley
Stewart Lansley is an economist and financial journalist. He has written extensively on poverty, wealth and inequality for specialist journals as well as the Guardian, the Independent and the Observer. He lives in London. Joanna Mack works at the Open University and created the research resource www.poverty.ac.uk. They are both former award-winning television producers, and have collaborated on research and television ... Read more

Reviews for Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty
‘Fascinating and unsettling…a contribution and resource of inestimable value.’
Political Quarterly
'This book should be widely read and discussed especially by politicians and the media. It provides a panorama of food for thought on important issue of the day.'
SBE (The Society of Business Economists)
"Hard-hitting… researched and argued so carefully - and sensitively - that ... Read more

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