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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008474256 | ISBN 10: 0008474257
A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today.
‘Intelligently written and powerfully argued.’ Paul Mason
‘Witty, scathing, and entertaining.’ Danny Dorling
Journa ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529103885 | ISBN 10: 1529103886
*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE*
'An Orwell for today's poor' - The Times
'The standout, authentic voice of a generation' Herald
'McGarvey is ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788213974 | ISBN 10: 1788213971
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 ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784703479 | ISBN 10: 1784703478
Politicians claim social mobility is real - a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise.
From servants' children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the 2008 financial crash, travelling ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780745344621 | ISBN 10: 0745344623
'The Left Behind' is a defining motif of contemporary British political discourse. It is the thread that knits together the 2016 Brexit referendum, the crumbling of the fabled 'Red Wall' in the North, and the pernicious culture war being waged today. ... more
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£25.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526167033 | ISBN 10: 1526167034
The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named 'Hungry 40s' came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in Englan ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781447364696 | ISBN 10: 1447364694
By Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Jim Kaufman, Geoff Page and Katie Pybus.
Money was already tight for UK families living on a low income before the Covid-19 pandemic, but national lockdowns made life much harder. Telling th ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781910422960 | ISBN 10: 1910422967
Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic - An eyewitness account of the impact of the early days of the pandemic on those living in poverty in Leeds, as Stu Hennigan delivered emergency food and medicine to communities that had already suffered 10 years ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788739757 | ISBN 10: 1788739752
How did Britain’s economy become a bastion of inequality?
In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure, winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, provides a forensic examination of twenty-first-century capitalism. Bret ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786630353 | ISBN 10: 1786630354
An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of care.
Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go further. In this groundbreaking book, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781781259016 | ISBN 10: 1781259011
An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful.
Starting with a simple question, 'what do street addresses do?', Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780745340210 | ISBN 10: 0745340210
How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks?
We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve?
S ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784707514 | ISBN 10: 1784707511
How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea for health, happiness, safety and healing our divided, unequal society.
Too often we take fo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529103380 | ISBN 10: 152910338x
“Everyone has their price. It’s just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid.”
Single mum. ‘Stain on society’. Caught in a poverty trap.
It’s a luxury to afford morals and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survi ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447344117 | ISBN 10: 1447344111
Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience reveals untold stories from people who have been left out of the media narrative and left behind by government policy.
Featuring the work of accomplished documentary photographers, the book ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786634658 | ISBN 10: 1786634651
We are living in an age of unprecedented poverty. But who are the new poor? And what hope do they have?
The New Poverty is the story of an unreported Britain, betrayed by politicians and left stranded by the retreat of the welfare state. Tod ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447349075 | ISBN 10: 1447349075
Inequality is the key political issue of our time. Danny Dorling wrote his seminal work Injustice: Why social inequality persists in 2010, and as an early proponent of rapidly reducing economic inequalities, he is now much sought-after as one of the ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141980355 | ISBN 10: 0141980354
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018
A landmark book from a remarkable new historian, on a subject that has never been more important - or imperilled
Today, everybody seems to agree tha ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780198716471 | ISBN 10: 0198716478
No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank, over 700 million people lived on less than US $2 a day in 2013. Why is that? What has been done ab ... more
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£23.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447323983 | ISBN 10: 144732398x
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 from generation to generation? Bringing together historical an ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781529006346 | ISBN 10: 1529006341
Winner of the Orwell Prize 2018.
Darren McGarvey has experienced poverty and its devastating effects first-hand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry and unheard. And he wants to explain... So he invites yo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447341093 | ISBN 10: 1447341090
What is life like for families who are stuck in problem debt? Why do they fall into a spiral of debt in the first place, and why is it so hard to escape?
The first hand stories in this book offer a unique understanding of life for families a ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073839 | ISBN 10: 1786073838
Imagine a world where leaders are able to pass power directly to their children. These children are plucked from their nurseries and sent to beautiful compounds far away from all the other children. They are provided with all the teachers they need, ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781352786 | ISBN 10: 178135278x
In The Working Class: Poverty, Education and Alternative Voices, Ian Gilbert unites educators from across the UK and further afield to call on all those working in schools to adopt a more enlightened and empathetic approach to supporting children in ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780745336794 | ISBN 10: 0745336795
This book critiques how impoverished communities are represented by politicians, the media, academics and policy makers - and how our understanding of these neighbourhoods is, often misleadingly, shaped by these stories.
The alleged behaviou ... more
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£30.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786630650 | ISBN 10: 1786630656
A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century.
In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the roots of Britain’s disadvantaged black working class. From the development of a small black pres ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571241293 | ISBN 10: 0571241298
Paris, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white façades, discreet traffic and well-mannered exchanges. But there was another Paris, hidden from view and virtually extinct today - the Paris of the wor ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745336183 | ISBN 10: 0745336183
Britain’s welfare state, one of the greatest achievements of our post-war reconstruction, was regarded as the cornerstone of modern society. Today, that cornerstone is wilfully being dismantled by a succession of governments, with horrifying conseq ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447329114 | ISBN 10: 1447329112
Welcome to Foodbank Britain, where emergency food provision is an increasingly visible and controversial feature of ongoing austerity. We know the statistics, but what does it feel like to be forced to turn to foodbanks for help? What does it take to ... more
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£10.00 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785900532 | ISBN 10: 1785900536
The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor kids to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the less well-off. I ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782797401 | ISBN 10: 1782797408
How and why the working class are being blamed for climate change, and what we can do about it.
Received wisdom is increasingly that we all have to eat less to save the planet, but received wisdom is wrong. A Diet of Austerity argues that, j ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780745442 | ISBN 10: 1780745443
Over the last thirty years national income has doubled. So has poverty. Where did it all go wrong?
Poverty in Britain is at crisis levels. Food bank queues, poor housing and insecure jobs are on the rise, leaving increasing numbers of people ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300212747 | ISBN 10: 0300212747
2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addres ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447309956 | ISBN 10: 1447309952
While the 1% rule, poor neighbourhoods have become the subject of public concern and media scorn, blamed for society's ills. This unique book redresses the balance. Lisa Mckenzie lived on the St Anns estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781608197651 | ISBN 10: 1608197654
"...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped."(Harriet Tubman)
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicid ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349005485 | ISBN 10: 0349005486
An urgent, uncompromising and heartfelt insider's account of what it is to be poor and working-class in the modern West.
Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a foo ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141395456 | ISBN 10: 0141395451
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780199681280 | ISBN 10: 0199681287
The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination.
Internationally, t ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781843916208 | ISBN 10: 1843916207
Dickens is famous for his moralising and the entreaties within his fiction to help the poor, and characters such as the Cratchit family, or little Joe in Bleak House have become iconic figures in our recollections of the nineteenth century's working ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141393032 | ISBN 10: 0141393033
Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780881652 | ISBN 10: 1780881657
Jane Herseys biography is told through the thoughts and voice of a traumatized, isolated child, enduring the stresses and strains of day-to-day life under difficult circumstances in 1960s Manchester. As a six year old child with sole care of a mothe ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780241954294 | ISBN 10: 0241954290
This new edition contains a new chapter, responding to the critics.
Large inequalities of income in a society have often been regarded as divisive and corrosive, and it is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives a ... more
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£25.00 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781555534387 | ISBN 10: 1555534384
This is the story of Bernice, a former welfare mother and survivor of domestic violence, and her arduous journey to escape from, and ultimately triumph over, years of battering, poverty, and welfare.
Skillfully interweaving Bernice's own eloquent ... more
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