Richer, The Poorer

How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History

AvStewart Lansley

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. This landmark book shows how, for 200 years, Britain’s most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakened social resilience.Stewart Lansley reveals how Britain’s model of ‘extractive capitalism’ – with a small elite securing an excessive slice of the economic cake – has created a two-century-long ‘high-inequality, high-poverty’ cycle, one broken for only a brief period after the Second World War. Why, he asks, are rich and poor citizens judged by very different standards? Why has social progress been so narrowly shared? With growing calls for a fairer post-COVID-19 society, what needs to be done to break Britain’s destructive poverty/inequality cycle?

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-11-25
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:646 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:318
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781447363200

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Stewart Lansley is a visiting fellow in the School of Policy Studies, the University of Bristol, a Council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and a Research Associate at the Compass think-tank. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has written widely on poverty, wealth and inequality. His recent books include A Sharing Economy (2016), Breadline Britain, The Rise of Mass Poverty (with Joanna Mack, 2015) and The Cost of Inequality (2011).

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“A resource that can help us make up our own minds about extremes of wealth and poverty, privilege and want, instead of being encouraged to ‘other’ welfare claimants and kid ourselves we share the interests of the profiteering one per cent. We should arm ourselves with it in all our anti-poverty struggles.” Cost of Living

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Introduction: Knighthoods for the rich, penalties for the poorPart 1: 1800-19391. Hierarchical discipline2. Britain’s gilded age3. Public penury and private ostentation4. A roller-coaster ridePart 2: 1940-595. The future belongs to us6. Britain’s ‘New Deal'7. Brave new world8. A shallow consensusPart 3: 1960-799. The rediscovery of poverty10. Poorer under Labour11. Consolidation or advance? 12. Peak equalityPart 4: 1980-9613. Don’t mention the 'p' word14. Zapping Labour15. The dark shadow of the Poor Law16. The great widening 17. Money worship Part 5: 1997-2010 18. The elephant in the room 19. Still born to rule 20. I'm not Mother Teresa21. The house of cards 22. The good, the bad and the ugly Part 6: 2011-20 23. Divide and rule: playing politics with poverty24. A leaner state25. Burning injustice26. Growing rich in their sleep 27. The high-inequality, high-poverty cycle Afterword: COVID-19 and 'the polo season'