LEADER 02593cam a2200385 i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20210104152804.0 007 ta 008 150610s2015 enka b 001 0 eng 010 2015376358 020 9781780745442 (paperback) 020 1780745443 (paperback) 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dhubpceuo 041 eng 042 pcc 043 e-uk--- 050 00 HC260.P6 |bL36 2015 082 305.5690941 100 1 Lansley, Stewart, |eauthor. 245 10 Breadline Britain : |bthe rise of mass poverty / |cStewart Lansley, Joanna Mack. 260 London : |bOneworld, |c2015. 300 xvii, 334 pages : |billustrations ; |c20 cm 337 unmediated 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 "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. 650 0 Poor |zGreat Britain. 650 0 Poverty |zGreat Britain. 651 0 Great Britain |xEconomic conditions |y1997- 700 1 Mack, Joanna |c(Television producer), |eauthor. 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6305_569094100000000_LAN |70 |8GEN |9129895OSA |bOSA |d2021-01-04 |eOSA |l0 |o305.5690941 LAN |r2021-01-04 |w2021-01-04 |yBK |zDonation of School of Public Policy. |cOSA Repository 920 01 PYJprQoD 992 01 305_569094100000000_LAN |bWZU_UTQZQVYZZZZZZZZ_EPC 966 |cIn the Research Room