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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781847429117
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-84742-911-7
- Verlag: Policy Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 19.12.2012
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2012
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 566 g
- Seiten: 264
- Format (B x H x T): 161 x 240 x 19 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt