Poverty and Insecurity: Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain

Tracy Shildrick; Robert MacDonald; Colin Webster; Kayleigh Garthwaite

doi:10.46692/9781847429124

This book is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between social exclusion, poverty and the labour market. It challenges long-standing and dominant myths about ‘the workless’ and ‘the poor’, by exploring close-up the lived realities of life in low-pay, no-pay Britain.

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Frontmatter
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List of figures and boxes
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Acknowledgements
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1 - Introduction
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2 - Poor work, welfare and poverty
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3 - Researching the low-pay, no-pay cycle and recurrent poverty
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4 - The low-pay, no-pay cycle: the perspectives and practices of employers and ‘welfare to work’ agencies
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5 - The low-pay, no-pay cycle: its pattern and people's commitment to work
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6 - Searching for jobs: qualifications, support for the workless and the good and bad of informal social networks
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7 - Poor work: insecurity and churning in deindustrialised labour markets
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8 - ‘The ties that bind’: ill health and caring and their impact on the low-pay, no-pay cycle
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9 - Poverty and social insecurity
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10 - Conclusions
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Index
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

List of figures and boxes
pp iv-iv

Acknowledgements
pp v-vi

1 - Introduction
pp 1-10

2 - Poor work, welfare and poverty
pp 11-38

3 - Researching the low-pay, no-pay cycle and recurrent poverty
pp 39-60

4 - The low-pay, no-pay cycle: the perspectives and practices of employers and ‘welfare to work’ agencies
pp 61-78

5 - The low-pay, no-pay cycle: its pattern and people's commitment to work
pp 79-100

6 - Searching for jobs: qualifications, support for the workless and the good and bad of informal social networks
pp 101-124

7 - Poor work: insecurity and churning in deindustrialised labour markets
pp 125-142

8 - ‘The ties that bind’: ill health and caring and their impact on the low-pay, no-pay cycle
pp 143-166

9 - Poverty and social insecurity
pp 167-192

10 - Conclusions
pp 193-224

References
pp 225-246

Index
pp 247-256

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