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

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Tracy Shildrick (University of Newcastle) Robert MacDonald (School of Social Sciences and Law, University of Teesside)

Poverty and Insecurity

Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain

Tracy Shildrick (University of Newcastle), Robert MacDonald (School of Social Sciences and Law, University of Teesside), Colin Webster (School of Social Sciences and Law, University of Teesside) , Kayleigh Garthwaite (University of Birmingham)

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Policy Press
19 December 2012

Poverty & unemployment; Sociology

Series: Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion

Winner of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize for 2013

How 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?

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.

Work may be 'the best route out of poverty' sometimes but for many people getting a job can be just a turn in the cycle of recurrent poverty

and of long-term churning between low-skilled 'poor work' and unemployment. Based on unique qualitative, life-history research with a 'hard-to-reach group' of younger and older people, men and women, the book shows how poverty and insecurity have now become the defining features of working life for many.

By: Tracy Shildrick (University of Newcastle), Robert MacDonald (School of Social Sciences and Law, University of Teesside), Colin Webster (School of Social Sciences and Law, University of Teesside), Kayleigh Garthwaite (University of Birmingham)
Imprint: Policy Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781847429100
ISBN 10: 1847429106
Series: Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 19 December 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Precarious work, welfare and poverty; Researching the low-pay, no-pay cycle; The low-pay, no-pay cycle: the perspectives and practices of employers and ‘welfare to work’ agencies; The low-pay, no-pay cycle: its pattern and people’s commitment to work; Searching for jobs: qualifications, support for the workless and the good and bad of informal social networks; Poor work: insecurity and churning in deindustrialised labour markets; ‘The ties that bind’: ill-health and caring and their impact on the low-pay, no-pay cycle; Poverty and social insecurity; Conclusions.

Tracy Shildrick is a Professor of Sociology at Teesside University. She has researched and written widely around issues to do with young people, poverty and worklessness. Robert MacDonald is Professor of Sociology at Teesside University. He has long-standing research interests in the areas of youth transitions, social exclusion and unemployment. Colin Webster is Professor of Criminology at Leeds Metropolitan University. He has long-standing research interests in ethnicity and crime and poverty and social exclusion. Kayleigh Garthwaite is a researcher in the Geography Department at Durham University. Her research interests focus on health, welfare-to-work and identity

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

Based on unique qualitative, life-history research with a 'hard-to-reach group' of younger and older people, men and women, the book shows how poverty and insecurity have now become the defining features of working life for many. An illuminating read - London School of Economics Review of Books