Austerity
Subtitle: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy
Publisher: New Internationalist Publications, Limited; New Internationalist
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781780262468
Subjects: Great britain, economic conditions, 21st century; Great britain, social conditions
Description: For the last five years, Britain has been under the hammer of 'Austerity'. In its name, wages have been frozen, benefits have been slashed and public spending squeezed. The pain of a financial crisis caused by bankers and speculators has been borne by ordinary people all over the country - and by the poor and disabled most of all. Yet this has not been born of necessity, argues Kerry-anneMendoza, better known as the blogger Scriptonite. Rather, it has been an opportunity seized upon by neoliberals to pursue their decades-long project to shrink government and privatise resources.