Poverty and Insecurity - 9781847429117

Poverty and InsecurityLife in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain\nAuthor(s): Tracy Shildrick, Robert MacDonald, Colin Webster, Kayleigh Garthwaite\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781847429117, 978-1847429117\nSynopsis\nWinner of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize for 2013\n\nHow do men and women get by in times and places where opportunities for standard employment have drastically reduced? Are we witnessing the growth of a new class, the 'Precariat', where people exist without predictability or security in their lives? What effects do flexible and insecure forms of work have on material and psychological well-being?\n\nThis 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. Work may be the best ro.