Description
Book SynopsisPoverty Propaganda debunks many popular myths and misconceptions about poverty and its prevalence, causes and consequences. In particular, it highlights the role of poverty propaganda' in sustaining class divides in perpetuating poverty and disadvantage in contemporary Britain.
Trade Review"An essential guide to poverty in 21st Century Britain. Poverty Propaganda examines how the truth about poverty, its causes and consequences, continue to be hidden behind headlines, stories and images of the feckless undeserving poor." Imogen Tyler, University of Lancaster
"Exposes the falsehood of stigmatising through treating people as 'undeserving' at a time when a privileged minority is receiving a lot of 'something for nothing'." Guy Standing, SOAS University of London
"Sets out to debunk many of the myths around poverty and benefits in the UK....reveals the extent of ‘poverty propaganda’ and the ideological function this plays in defending successive cuts to social security support. A timely and important book from one of the leading thinkers on poverty in the UK." Ruth Patrick, University of Liverpool
“This book makes a significant contribution to making poverty visible, both as an experience for the many people the author has interviewed, and as a theoretical and political problem… With its particular emphasis on experience and empirical evidence, it offers students in particular a useful account of the interests, concerns and debates which have generated poverty propaganda in the UK.” Community Development Journal
"This book is a timely opportunity to review our current understandings of poverty and what it means for us as a profession and as radicals..." Critical and Radical Social Work
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Poverty propaganda; Lived realities; Labour markets and ‘poor work’; Class and social immobility; Discrimination, stigma and shame; Poverty propaganda and the (re)production of poverty and privilege; Conclusions.
