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1st Edition
Published on 20. October 2022
185 pages
978-1-78821-399-8 (ISBN)
Description
Poverty in modern-day Britain looks different to the form it took in Beveridge's day but it has not disappeared. For 14 million people across the UK the lack of access to the goods and services necessary to live a decent life and to participate fully in society remains a grim reality. Despite rising standards of living, social and economic structures continue to trap those at the bottom in constant job insecurity, ill-health, overcrowded housing and educational disadvantage. Helen Barnard considers what it might take to finally slay the giant of poverty in Britain. She examines how we might build a fairer, more equal society, and what a modern welfare state should aim to achieve, including an honest appraisal of the trade-offs and choices involved in creating it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle Upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-78821-399-8 (9781788213998)
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Person
Helen Barnard combines her work as Associate Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with her role as Research and Policy Director at Pro Bono Economics.
Content
Introduction
1. Defining decency
2. Hard pressed families
3. Disabled people and carers
4. Renting pensioners
5. Young, Black and held back
6. Stigma and shame or dignity and respect?
7. Equality and discrimination
8. What is social security for?
9. Public services for the digital age
10. Reimagining work
11. Managing modern markets
12. Tax, wealth and housing
Conclusion
