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

by Robert MacDonald, Colin Webster, Tracy Shildrick, et al.

Book Overview

Poverty and Insecurity is the first book to examine the relationship between social exclusion, poverty, and the labor market. It challenges long-standing and dominant myths about the unemployed and the poor by exploring their lived realities. Work may be the best route out of poverty, but for many people employment does not solve recurrent poverty, with many individuals trapped in a low-pay, no-pay cycle between lowwage jobs and unemployment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847429106
• ISBN13: 9781847429100
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"