Poverty propaganda

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Hardcover
2018
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Does `real' poverty still exist in Britain? How do people differentiate between the supposed `deserving' and `undeserving' poor? Is there a culture of worklessness passed down generation to generation? Poverty Propaganda: Exploring the myths sheds new light on how poverty is understood in contemporary Britain, debunking many popular myths and misconceptions about poverty, its prevalence, causes and consequences, and concluding with suggestions for change.

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Does `real' poverty still exist in Britain? How do people differentiate between the supposed `deserving' and `undeserving' poor? Is there a culture of worklessness passed down generation to generation? Poverty Propaganda: Exploring the myths sheds new light on how poverty is understood in contemporary Britain, debunking many popular myths and misconceptions about poverty, its prevalence, causes and consequences, and concluding with suggestions for change.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Edition: 1
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 11 Apr 2018
ISBN 10: 1447323971
ISBN 13: 9781447323976

Media Reviews

An essential guide to poverty in 21st Century Britain. Poverty Propaganda examines how the truth about poverty, its causes and consequences, continue to be hidden behind headlines, stories and images of the feckless undeserving poor. Imogen Tyler, University of Lancaster
Exposes the falsehood of stigmatising through treating people as 'undeserving' at a time when a privileged minority is receiving a lot of 'something for nothing'. Guy Standing, SOAS University of London
Sets out to debunk many of the myths around poverty and benefits in the UK....reveals the extent of `poverty propaganda' and the ideological function this plays in defending successive cuts to social security support. A timely and important book from one of the leading thinkers on poverty in the UK. Ruth Patrick, University of Liverpool

Author Bio

Dr Tracy Shildrick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle. She is co-author of Poverty and insecurity (Policy Press, 2012) which won the Peter Townsend 2013 prize. Her research interests span youth transitions, worklessness, poverty and social exclusion.