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Abstract
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 consequences. The establishment paints pictures of so-called 'benefit scroungers', the disabled, the sickly and the old.
In Cut Out: Living Without Welfare, Jeremy Seabrook speaks to people whose support from the state - for whatever reason - is now being withdrawn, rendering their lives unsustainable. In turns disturbing, eye-opening, and ultimately humanistic, these accounts reveal the reality behind the headlines, and the true nature of British politics today.
Published in partnership with the Left Book Club.
'For half a century, in one delicately textured study after another, Seabrook has established himself as perhaps Britain's finest anatomist of class, deindustrialisation, migration and the spiritual consequences of neoliberalism'
Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian
'Giving a voice to the many people who have become increasingly isolated and unsupported in their struggle to survive, this is a useful resource for activists campaigning for social justice and against the government's cuts'
Peace News
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Cover | Cover | ||
Contents | v | ||
Series Preface | vii | ||
Acknowledgements | ix | ||
Introduction | 1 | ||
Welfare cuts: the wider context | 11 | ||
Being there: a sense of place | 20 | ||
The fall of industrial male labour | 30 | ||
Benefit fraud | 38 | ||
A fate foretold | 45 | ||
Sheltered accommodation | 52 | ||
Zubeida | 55 | ||
Azma | 60 | ||
Kareema | 64 | ||
Born at the wrong time | 69 | ||
Abigail | 73 | ||
Adele and Clifford | 79 | ||
Graham Chinnery: zero hours | 84 | ||
Andrea | 88 | ||
Carl Hendricks | 92 | ||
Arif Hossein | 96 | ||
The idea of reform | 105 | ||
People with disability | 115 | ||
Amanda | 119 | ||
Belfort: survival | 127 | ||
Lorraine: in the benefits labyrinth | 132 | ||
Jayne Durham | 140 | ||
Paula | 144 |