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Author O'Brien, Mark (Researcher), author.

Title Just managing? : what it means for the families of austerity Britain / Mark O'Brien and Paul Kyprianou.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages) : color illustrations
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Series Open reports series, 2399-6676 ; v. 5
Open Reports series ; v. 5. 2399-6676
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index.
Contents Preface -- Part 1: Back to the future? 1. Understanding poverty: then and now -- 2. The getting by? study -- Part 2. The big issues 3. Money matters -- 4. Working life -- 5. Meeting basic needs -- 6. Home and family life -- Part 3. Just managing? perspectives on poverty 7. Family views: 'who's to blame?' -- 8. Liars, thieves and honest scousers -- Appendix I: How the research was conducted -- Appendix II: Family circumstances and spending.
Summary "The 'just about managing'. 'Hardworking families'. 'Alarm-clock Britain'. In recent years British political discourse has been filled with these slogans, as politicians claim to speak on behalf of families who are in work, but struggling to get by. This book allows us to hear from some of these families directly. At a time when the impact of austerity is more relevant than ever, Just Managing? cuts through the debates and sloganeering to give some of the real people behind the headlines and statistics a chance to tell their stories. It tracks the lives of thirty working families in Liverpool over one year, as they struggle to manage on incomes at or around the National Minimum Wage. Their accounts are placed within the economic and political context that has shaped their experiences and that of millions of other working families across the country. This book is required reading for anyone seeking to understand what life is like at the sharp end of 'austerity Britain'."--Publisher's website
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publisher website, viewed on on April 1, 2020).
Subject Families -- Great Britain.
Poor -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Great Britain -- Economic policy -- 21st century.
Great Britain -- Social policy -- 21st century.
Poverty -- England -- Liverpool -- Case studies.
Liverpool (England) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century -- Case studies.
Familles -- Grande-Bretagne.
Pauvres -- Grande-Bretagne -- Conditions sociales -- 21e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne -- Conditions économiques -- 21e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne -- Conditions sociales -- 21e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne -- Politique économique -- 21e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne -- Politique sociale -- 21e siècle.
Pauvreté -- Angleterre -- Liverpool -- Études de cas.
Politics and government.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Politics & government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
Political Science.
Economic history
Economic policy
Families
Poor -- Social conditions
Poverty
Social conditions
Social policy
England -- Liverpool
Great Britain
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Indexed Term statistics.
liverpool.
low income.
britain.
national minimun wage.
austerity.
british politics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies
Added Author Kyprianou, Paul, author.
Open Book Publishers, publisher.
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