Poverty and Insecurity
Subtitle: Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781847429117
Subjects: Poor, great britain; Labor market; Unemployment, great britain; Marginality, social
Description: 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, 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 examines and challenges these questions.