Richer, the Poorer

How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6321-7
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. This landmark book shows how, for 200 years, Britain’s most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakened social resilience.

Stewart Lansley reveals how Britain’s model of ‘extractive capitalism’ – with a small elite securing an excessive slice of the economic cake – has created a two-century-long ‘high-inequality, high-poverty’ cycle, one broken for only a brief period after the Second World War. Why, he asks, are rich and poor citizens judged by very different standards? Why has social progress been so narrowly shared? With growing calls for a fairer post-COVID-19 society, what needs to be done to break Britain’s destructive poverty/inequality cycle?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lansley, Stewart

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Knighthoods for the rich, penalties for the poor

Part 1: 1800-1939

1. Hierarchical discipline

2. Britain’s gilded age

3. Public penury and private ostentation

4. A roller-coaster ride

Part 2: 1940-59

5. The future belongs to us

6. Britain’s ‘New Deal'

7. Brave new world

8. A shallow consensus

Part 3: 1960-79

9. The rediscovery of poverty

10. Poorer under Labour

11. Consolidation or advance?

12. Peak equality

Part 4: 1980-96

13. Don’t mention the 'p' word

14. Zapping Labour

15. The dark shadow of the Poor Law

16. The great widening

17. Money worship

Part 5: 1997-2010

18. The elephant in the room

19. Still born to rule

20. I'm not Mother Teresa

21. The house of cards

22. The good, the bad and the ugly

Part 6: 2011-20

23. Divide and rule: playing politics with poverty

24. A leaner state

25. Burning injustice

26. Growing rich in their sleep

27. The high-inequality, high-poverty cycle

Afterword: COVID-19 and 'the polo season'

Über Autor(innen)

Lansley, Stewart
Stewart Lansley is a visiting fellow in the School of Policy Studies, the University of Bristol, a Council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and a Research Associate at the Compass think-tank. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has written widely on poverty, wealth and inequality. His recent books include A Sharing Economy (2016), Breadline Britain, The Rise of Mass Poverty (with Joanna Mack, 2015) and The Cost of Inequality (2011).