{"product_id":"shattered-nation-9781804295847","title":"Shattered Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBritain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In \u003ci\u003eShattered Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, leading geographer and author of \u003ci\u003eInequality and the 1%\u003c\/i\u003e shows that we are growing further and further apart. Visiting sites across the British Isles and exploring the social fissures that have emerged, Danny Dorling exposes a new geography of inequality. Middle England has been hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis, and even people doing comparatively well are struggling to stay afloat. Once affluent suburbs are now unproductive places where opportunity has been replaced by food banks. Before COVID, life expectancy had dropped as a result of poverty for the first time since the 1930s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifty years ago the UK led the world in child health; today, twenty-two of the twenty-seven EU countries have better mortality rates for newborns. No other European country has such miserly unemployment benefits; university fees so high; housing so unaffordable; or a government economically","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49412987060567,"sku":"9781804295847","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781804295847.jpg?v=1730518768","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shattered-nation-9781804295847","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}