Just Managing

What it Means for the Families of Austerity Britain

Bibliographic Data

ID19889012
AuthorsMark O’brien (0009-0006-2205-9232, University of Liverpool), Mark O'Brien (University of Liverpool), Paul Kyprianou, Mark OBrien
Year2017
Pages233
Publication date2017-05-29
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueJust managing? (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOpen Book Publishers (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11647/obp.0112
OpenAlexW2618405370
Open LibraryOL59387681M
ISBN9781783743230
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

The 'just about managing'. 'Hardworking families'. 'Alarm-clock Britain'. In recent years British political discourse has been filled with these slogans, as politicians claim to speak on behalf of families who are in work, but struggling to get by. This book allows us to hear from some of these families directly. At a time when the impact of austerity is more relevant than ever, Just Managing? cuts through the debates and sloganeering to give some of the real people behind the headlines and statistics a chance to tell their stories. It tracks the lives of thirty working families in Liverpool over one year, as they struggle to manage on incomes at or around the National Minimum Wage. Their accounts are placed within the economic and political context that has shaped their experiences and that of millions of other working families across the country. This book is required reading for anyone seeking to understand what life is like at the sharp end of 'austerity Britain’

Austerity · Genealogy · Political science · Sociology · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Case studies · Economic history · England · Great britain · Liverpool · Poor families · Poverty · Welfare economics

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