Poverty and Insecurity
Poverty and Insecurity 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…
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Poverty and Insecurity
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? What effects do flexible and insecure forms of work have on material and psychological well-being? Are we witnessing the growth of a new class, the 'Precariat', where people exist without predictability or security in their lives?
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. This book is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between social exclusion, poverty and the labour market. 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