Cut Out

Living Without Welfare

AvJeremy Seabrook

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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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 consequences. The establishment paints pictures of so-called 'benefit scroungers', the disabled, the sickly and the old.In Cut Out: Living Without Welfare, Jeremy Seabrook speaks to people whose support from the state - for whatever reason - is now being withdrawn, rendering their lives unsustainable. In turns disturbing, eye-opening, and ultimately humanistic, these accounts reveal the reality behind the headlines, and the true nature of British politics today.Published in partnership with the Left Book Club.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-20
Mått:129 x 198 x 19 mm
Vikt:286 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Left Book Club
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745336183

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Jeremy Seabrook (1939-2024) wrote on inequality, poverty and the oppressed in Britain and across the Global South for over half a century. His articles were featured in the Guardian, The Times and the Independent. He has written plays for stage, TV and the theatre, some in collaboration with his close friend, Michael O’Neill. His many books include The Song of the Shirt and Cut Out: Living Without Welfare. In 2023 he published his memoirs, Private Worlds.

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'For half a century, in one delicately textured study after another, Seabrook has established himself as perhaps Britain's finest anatomist of class, deindustrialisation, migration and the spiritual consequences of neoliberalism'

Innehållsförteckning

Series PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Welfare Cuts: The Wider Context2. Being There: A Sense of Place3. The Fall of Industrial Male Labour4. Benefit Fraud5. A Fate Foretold6. Sheltered Accommodation7. Zubeida8. Azma9. Kareema10. Born at the Wrong Time11. Abigail12. Adele and Clifford13. Graham Chinnery: Zero Hours14. Andrea15. Carl Hendricks16. Arif Hossein17. The Idea of Reform18. People with Disability10. Amanda20. Belfort: Survival21. Lorraine: In the Benefits Labyrinth22. Jayne Durham23. Paula24. Violence against Women25. Faraji26. ‘Doing the Right Thing’27. Grace and Richard28. ‘It Can Happen to Anyone’29. Andrew30. Lazy Categories31. The Secret World of ‘Welfare’32. Self-Employment as a Refuge33. Joshua Ademola34. Dayanne: The Right Thing and the Wrong Result35. The Roots of Alienation36. Imran Noorzai37. Farida: The Duty of Young Women38. Welfare and Mental Health39. Alison: The Loneliness of Being on Benefit40. Kenneth Lennox41. Marie Fullerton42. Gus: A Heroic Life43. Stolen Identities: Epitaph for a Working Class ConclusionFurther Reading