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Fortress London: Why We Need to Save the Country from its Capital - by Sam Bright

£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008474256 | ISBN 10: 0008474257

A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today. ‘Intelligently written and powerfully argued.’ Paul Mason ‘Witty, scathing, and entertaining.’ Danny Dorling Journa ... more
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The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain - by Darren McGarvey

£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529103885 | ISBN 10: 1529103886

*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE* 'An Orwell for today's poor' - The Times 'The standout, authentic voice of a generation' Herald 'McGarvey is ... more
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Want - by Helen Barnard

£15.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788213974 | ISBN 10: 1788213971

Poverty in modern-day Britain looks different to the form it took in Beveridge's day but it has not disappeared. For 14 million people across the UK the lack of access to the goods and services necessary to live a decent life and to participate ... more
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Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth - by Professor Selina Todd

£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784703479 | ISBN 10: 1784703478

Politicians claim social mobility is real - a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise. From servants' children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the 2008 financial crash, travelling ... more
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The Left Behind: Reimagining Britain's Socially Excluded - by James Morrison

£16.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780745344621 | ISBN 10: 0745344623

'The Left Behind' is a defining motif of contemporary British political discourse. It is the thread that knits together the 2016 Brexit referendum, the crumbling of the fabled 'Red Wall' in the North, and the pernicious culture war being waged today. ... more
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The Politics of Hunger: Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840 - by Carl J. Griffin

£25.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526167033 | ISBN 10: 1526167034

The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named 'Hungry 40s' came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in Englan ... more
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A Year Like No Other: Life on a Low Income During COVID-19 - by Various authors

£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781447364696 | ISBN 10: 1447364694

By Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Jim Kaufman, Geoff Page and Katie Pybus. Money was already tight for UK families living on a low income before the Covid-19 pandemic, but national lockdowns made life much harder. Telling th ... more
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Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic - by Stu Hennigan

£12.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781910422960 | ISBN 10: 1910422967

Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic - An eyewitness account of the impact of the early days of the pandemic on those living in poverty in Leeds, as Stu Hennigan delivered emergency food and medicine to communities that had already suffered 10 years ... more
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Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? - by Brett Christophers

£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788739757 | ISBN 10: 1788739752

How did Britain’s economy become a bastion of inequality? In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure, winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, provides a forensic examination of twenty-first-century capitalism. Bret ... more
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The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? - by Emma Dowling

£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786630353 | ISBN 10: 1786630354

An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of care. Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go further. In this groundbreaking book, ... more
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power - by Deirdre Mask

£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781781259016 | ISBN 10: 1781259011

An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful. Starting with a simple question, 'what do street addresses do?', Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work ... more
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Split: Class Divides Uncovered - by Ben Tippet

£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780745340210 | ISBN 10: 0745340210

How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve? S ... more
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Palaces for the People: How To Build a More Equal and United Society - by Eric Klinenberg

£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784707514 | ISBN 10: 1784707511

How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea for health, happiness, safety and healing our divided, unequal society. Too often we take fo ... more
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Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival - by Cash Carraway

£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529103380 | ISBN 10: 152910338x

“Everyone has their price. It’s just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid.” Single mum. ‘Stain on society’. Caught in a poverty trap. It’s a luxury to afford morals and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survi ... more
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Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience - by Paul Sng (Editor)

£20.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447344117 | ISBN 10: 1447344111

Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience reveals untold stories from people who have been left out of the media narrative and left behind by government policy. Featuring the work of accomplished documentary photographers, the book ... more
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The New Poverty - by Stephen Armstrong

£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786634658 | ISBN 10: 1786634651

We are living in an age of unprecedented poverty. But who are the new poor? And what hope do they have? The New Poverty is the story of an unreported Britain, betrayed by politicians and left stranded by the retreat of the welfare state. Tod ... more
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Peak Inequality: Britain's Ticking Time Bomb - by Danny Dorling

£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447349075 | ISBN 10: 1447349075

Inequality is the key political issue of our time. Danny Dorling wrote his seminal work Injustice: Why social inequality persists in 2010, and as an early proponent of rapidly reducing economic inequalities, he is now much sought-after as one of the ... more
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Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State - by Chris Renwick

£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141980355 | ISBN 10: 0141980354

SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 A landmark book from a remarkable new historian, on a subject that has never been more important - or imperilled Today, everybody seems to agree tha ... more
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Poverty: A Very Short Introduction - by Philip N. Jefferson

£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780198716471 | ISBN 10: 0198716478

No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank, over 700 million people lived on less than US $2 a day in 2013. Why is that? What has been done ab ... more
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Poverty Propaganda: Exploring the Myths - by Tracy Shildrick

£23.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447323983 | ISBN 10: 144732398x

Does ‘real’ poverty still exist in Britain? How do people differentiate between the supposed ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor? Is there a culture of worklessness passed down from generation to generation? Bringing together historical an ... more
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Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass - by Darren McGarvey

£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781529006346 | ISBN 10: 1529006341

Winner of the Orwell Prize 2018. Darren McGarvey has experienced poverty and its devastating effects first-hand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry and unheard. And he wants to explain... So he invites yo ... more
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Life in the Debt Trap: Stories of Children and Families Struggling with Debt - by Sorcha Mahony and Larissa Pople

£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447341093 | ISBN 10: 1447341090

What is life like for families who are stuck in problem debt? Why do they fall into a spiral of debt in the first place, and why is it so hard to escape? The first hand stories in this book offer a unique understanding of life for families a ... more
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Posh Boys: How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain - by Robert Verkaik

£16.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073839 | ISBN 10: 1786073838

Imagine a world where leaders are able to pass power directly to their children. These children are plucked from their nurseries and sent to beautiful compounds far away from all the other children. They are provided with all the teachers they need, ... more
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The Working Class: Poverty, Education and Alternative Voices - by Ian Gilbert

£24.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781352786 | ISBN 10: 178135278x

In The Working Class: Poverty, Education and Alternative Voices, Ian Gilbert unites educators from across the UK and further afield to call on all those working in schools to adopt a more enlightened and empathetic approach to supporting children in ... more
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In Their Place: The Imagined Geographies of Poverty - by Stephen Crossley

£18.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780745336794 | ISBN 10: 0745336795

This book critiques how impoverished communities are represented by politicians, the media, academics and policy makers - and how our understanding of these neighbourhoods is, often misleadingly, shaped by these stories. The alleged behaviou ... more
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The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain - by Ron Ramdin

£30.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786630650 | ISBN 10: 1786630656

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century. In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the roots of Britain’s disadvantaged black working class. From the development of a small black pres ... more
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The Other Paris: An Illustrated Journey Through a City's Poor and Bohemian Past - by Luc Sante

£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571241293 | ISBN 10: 0571241298

Paris, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white façades, discreet traffic and well-mannered exchanges. But there was another Paris, hidden from view and virtually extinct today - the Paris of the wor ... more
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Cut Out: Living Without Welfare - by Jeremy Seabrook

£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745336183 | ISBN 10: 0745336183

Britain’s welfare state, one of the greatest achievements of our post-war reconstruction, was regarded as the cornerstone of modern society. Today, that cornerstone is wilfully being dismantled by a succession of governments, with horrifying conseq ... more
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Hunger Pains: Life Inside Foodbank Britain - by Kayleigh Garthwaite

£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447329114 | ISBN 10: 1447329112

Welcome to Foodbank Britain, where emergency food provision is an increasingly visible and controversial feature of ongoing austerity. We know the statistics, but what does it feel like to be forced to turn to foodbanks for help? What does it take to ... more
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The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working Class Kids Still Get Working Class Jobs - by James Bloodworth

£10.00 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785900532 | ISBN 10: 1785900536

The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor kids to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the less well-off. I ... more
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A Diet of Austerity: Class, Food and Climate Change - by Elaine Graham-Leigh

£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782797401 | ISBN 10: 1782797408

How and why the working class are being blamed for climate change, and what we can do about it. Received wisdom is increasingly that we all have to eat less to save the planet, but received wisdom is wrong. A Diet of Austerity argues that, j ... more
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Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty - by Joanna Mack and Stewart Lansley

£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780745442 | ISBN 10: 1780745443

Over the last thirty years national income has doubled. So has poverty. Where did it all go wrong? Poverty in Britain is at crisis levels. Food bank queues, poor housing and insecure jobs are on the rise, leaving increasing numbers of people ... more
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Hard Times: Inequality, Recession, Aftermath - by Tom Clark with Anthony Heath

£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300212747 | ISBN 10: 0300212747

2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addres ... more
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Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain - by Lisa McKenzie

£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447309956 | ISBN 10: 1447309952

While the 1% rule, poor neighbourhoods have become the subject of public concern and media scorn, blamed for society's ills. This unique book redresses the balance. Lisa Mckenzie lived on the St Ann�s estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years ... more
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir - by Jesmyn Ward

£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781608197651 | ISBN 10: 1608197654

"...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped."(Harriet Tubman) In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicid ... more
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Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World - by Linda Tirado

£14.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349005485 | ISBN 10: 0349005486

An urgent, uncompromising and heartfelt insider's account of what it is to be poor and working-class in the modern West. Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a foo ... more
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The Road to Wigan Pier - by George Orwell

£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141395456 | ISBN 10: 0141395451

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact ... more
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Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor - by Ruth Richardson

£11.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780199681280 | ISBN 10: 0199681287

The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationally, t ... more
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On Poverty - by Charles Dickens

£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781843916208 | ISBN 10: 1843916207

Dickens is famous for his moralising and the entreaties within his fiction to help the poor, and characters such as the Cratchit family, or little Joe in Bleak House have become iconic figures in our recollections of the nineteenth century's working ... more
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Down and Out in Paris and London - by George Orwell

£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141393032 | ISBN 10: 0141393033

Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort ... more
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Breathe in the Dark: A Childhood Lost - by Jane Hersey

£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780881652 | ISBN 10: 1780881657

Jane Hersey�s biography is told through the thoughts and voice of a traumatized, isolated child, enduring the stresses and strains of day-to-day life under difficult circumstances in 1960s Manchester. As a six year old child with sole care of a mothe ... more
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The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better - by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

£10.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780241954294 | ISBN 10: 0241954290

This new edition contains a new chapter, responding to the critics. Large inequalities of income in a society have often been regarded as divisive and corrosive, and it is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives a ... more
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Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty - by Jody Raphael

£25.00 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781555534387 | ISBN 10: 1555534384

This is the story of Bernice, a former welfare mother and survivor of domestic violence, and her arduous journey to escape from, and ultimately triumph over, years of battering, poverty, and welfare. � Skillfully interweaving Bernice's own eloquent ... more
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