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The Richer, The Poorer : How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History /

This landmark book charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor, and the mechanisms that link them. Stewart Lansley examines the ideological rifts that have driven society back to the divisions of the past and asks why rich and poor citizens are still judged by very different standards.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lansley, Stewart (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Testimonials page -- The Richer, the Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor -- Copyright information -- Series information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: Knighthoods for the rich, penalties for the poor -- PART I 1800-1939 -- 1 Hierarchical discipline -- God's will -- The age of capital -- 2 Britain's gilded age -- Extractive capitalism -- An ideological counter-offensive -- 3 Public penury and private ostentation -- The 'undeserving rich' and the 'deserving poor' 
505 0 |a A plutocratic playground -- 4 A roller-coaster ride -- A conscription of riches -- What about the rentiers? -- Icy indifference -- PART II 1940-59 -- 5 The future belongs to us -- A patrician last fling -- The turning of the public mood -- Not for patching -- 6 Britain's 'New Deal' -- Treachery -- 7 Brave new world -- A Plimsoll Line for incomes -- The cracks appear -- What is poverty? -- 8 A shallow consensus -- The 'people' versus the 'old gang' -- Egalitarian optimism -- PART III 1960-79 -- 9 The rediscovery of poverty -- The poor and the poorest -- The rise of the poverty lobby 
505 0 |a 10 Poorer under Labour -- About-turn -- Burying Beveridge -- 11 Consolidation or advance? -- A doomed species? -- Spreading wealth -- 12 Peak equality -- The battle for child benefit -- Statistical darkness -- A harsh lesson on the politics of distribution -- PART IV 1980-96 -- 13 Don't mention the 'p' word -- This is what we believe -- Let our children grow tall -- 14 Zapping labour -- A wave of panic -- Financialisation -- Poverty: a no-go area -- 15 The dark shadow of the Poor Law -- A war of attrition -- Shirkers and scroungers -- Heavy-handed tactics -- The shift in lobbying power 
505 0 |a 16 The great widening -- Poverty in paradise -- An economic megashift -- 17 Money worship -- Tomorrow's money today -- A multi-speed society -- A two-thirds, one-third society -- PART V 1997-2010 -- 18 The elephant in the room -- Pragmatic realism -- Blair's war on poverty -- 19 Still born to rule -- Morally naked -- The Great Gatsby curve -- 20 I'm not Mother Teresa -- An orgy of self-enrichment -- Western hubris -- In the service of power -- Gap thinking -- Immune to inequality -- 21 The house of cards -- The 2008 crash -- Me, more, now -- 22 The good, the bad and the ugly 
505 0 |a Wealth begetting wealth -- Governing for all -- Part VI 2011-20 -- 23 Divide and rule: playing politics with poverty -- Poverty plus a pound -- An old libel -- Don't push me in a statistic -- 24 A leaner state -- Folklore economics -- A disciplinary state -- Communist clerics -- 25 Burning injustice -- Filling the gaps -- Inequality denial -- 26 Growing rich in their sleep -- Giving everyone a stake -- Corporate overreach -- 27 Breaking the high-inequality, high-poverty cycle -- The ghosts of the past -- More than patching -- Afterword: COVID-19 and 'the polo season' 
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