
Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty (Paperback)
Stewart Lansley (author), Joanna Mack (author)Published: 19/02/2015

As urgent as it is unsettling, Lansley and Mack’s important book explores the reality of poverty in modern Britain, showing how its causes can be directly traced to the political choices of successive governments and compellingly arguing for the necessity of radical change.
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.
One of Listmuse's Greatest British Politics books
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
ISBN: 9781780745442
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 318 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 25 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Fascinating and unsettling...a contribution and resource of inestimable value.' - Political Quarterly
'This book should be widely read and discussed especially by politicians and the media. It provides a panorama of food for thought on important issue of the day.' - SBE (The Society of Business Economists)
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