Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Impoverished

    How to fix Britain's poverty problem

    by Joanna Mack ...
    A deeply researched look at how UK poverty levels skyrocketed, and how the crisis can be fixed.Almost a third of children in Britain today live in poverty. But how did we get here – and what can be done to turn the tide?Joanna Mack traces the roots of Britain’s poverty crisis to political choices that have left millions unable to withstand the turmoil of the 2020s. Drawing on four decades of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Fornevermore

    In Fornevermore you will find various poems ranging from pitch black to a hazy shadow. If dark scares you, dont worry light spots are included. There is a little of everything all in one. You may notice that not one poem has been assigned a title, for that is yours to decide. Also a title is a spoiler, in my opinion. Please enjoy the workings of my mind. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK

    Volume 2 - The Dimensions of Disadvantage

    Series series Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
    How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different groups or places?Based on the largest UK study of its kind ever commissioned, this fascinating book provides the most detailed national picture of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Breadline Britain

    The Rise of Mass Poverty

    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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Free Lunch Thinking

    8 Economic Myths and Why Politicians Fall for Them

    by Tom Bergin ...
    Countries with smaller governments grow faster.Tobacco taxes are the best way to cut smoking.Government regulation discourages entrepreneurshi****p.Award-winning investigative journalist Tom Bergin digs into eight mantras widely accepted by Western governments and, by talking to the people who promote those ideas and the workers, businesspeople and consumers who have felt their impacts, finds they ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Violence of Austerity

    Edited by Vickie Cooper, David Whyte ...
    Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain.In The Violence of Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices of campaigners and academics including Danny Dorling, Mary O'Hara and Rizwaan Sabir to show that rather than stimulating economic growth, austerity policies have led to a dismantling of the social systems ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When nothing works

    From cost of living to foundational liveability

    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    It’s hard to escape the feeling that in Britain today nothing works. In the face of mounting inflation and widespread industrial action, this book offers an incisive analysis of the UK’s problems and a new approach to tackling them.Economic growth and higher wages, the traditional responses of mainstream politicians, are simply not enough. This is because the so-called ‘cost of living crisis’ is ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • It's The Economy, Stupid

    Economics for Voters

    by Vicky Pryce ...
    Pollsters are constantly worrying about our perceptions of politicians. What do their other halves look like? Who looks best when eating a bacon sandwich? Should they even be eating bacon sandwiches in the first place? For the voter, though, it all comes down to one thing: the economy. While good economic news can send popularity sky-rocketing, bad performance can blight a party's election chances ... Read more

    $13.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crisis for Young People

    Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare

    by Andy Green ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides an original and challenging analysis of one of the most pressing social issues of our times: intergenerational inequality. Based on recent mixed-method research, it explores the extent and scope of generational divides through an up-to-date analysis of the changing opportunities for young people in Britain across different life ... Read more

    Free

  • Austerity and Recovery in Ireland

    Europe's Poster Child and the Great Recession

    In international commentary and debate on the effects of the Great Recession and austerity, Ireland has been hailed as the poster child for economic recovery and regeneration out of deep economic and fiscal contraction. While the genesis of Ireland's financial, economic, and fiscal crisis has been covered in the literature, no systematic analysis has yet been devoted to the period of austerity, to ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Holistic Manifesto: Centre-Left Policies for the Twenty-First Century

    by E. P. Anthony ...
    E.P. Anthony, an economist, trader and wealth manager focuses on the political economy of inequality and the decline of centre-left parties in the developed world in this manifesto. His analysis will especially appeal to readers in the Anglo-Saxon economies of the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand where inequality has increased most rapidly. The manifesto summarizes ... Read more

    $1.32 USD

  • Ending the Social Care Crisis

    A New Road to Reform

    What lies behind England’s crisis in adult social care, why has real change been so hard and what can be done?Ensuring effective, sustainable and affordable care and support for people of all ages is an urgent public policy challenge. This vital book outlines a different vision of social care as an essential part of the country’s economic and social infrastructure that enables people to live good ... Read more

    $20.89 USD