Austerity bites : a journey to the sharp end of cuts in the UK / Mary O'Hara.
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TextPublisher: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xiv, 320 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 144731560X
- 9781447315605
- 361.610941 23
- HN385.5 .O33 2014
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 361.610941 OHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A556535B |
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| 361.610941 BLA Social policy : an introduction / | 361.610941 ENG Engendering social policy / | 361.610941 HUD Understanding the policy process : analysing welfare policy and practice / | 361.610941 OHA Austerity bites : a journey to the sharp end of cuts in the UK / | 361.610941 SOC Social work, social policy and older people / | 361.610973 STO Quixote's ghost : the right, the liberati, and the future of social policy / | 361.610993 BOS Transforming the welfare state : towards a new social contract / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- -- 1. Money's too tight to mention -- Food poverty: austerity made visible -- -- 2. The big squeeze -- Financial insecurity: austerity and the erosion of household income -- -- 3. Welcome to 'Wongaland' -- The rise of personal debt: austerity and the myth of the skiver -- -- 4. Work maketh the person -- The demonisation of the jobless: austerity and the myth of the skiver -- -- 5. All work and no pay -- Work and wages: austerity and the job crisis -- -- 6. Bearing the brunt -- The targeting of people with disabilities: austerity at its worst -- -- 7. A life lived in fear is a life half lived -- Austerity pushes people to the edge -- -- Conclusion.
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