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Life in the debt trap : stories of children and families struggling with debt / Sorcha Mahony, Larissa Pople.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahony, Sorcha, author.
- Pople, Larissa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Debt--Great Britain.
- Debt.
- Poor families--Great Britain--Social conditions.
- Poor families.
- Poor families--Great Britain--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 152 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- 1 The journey p. 14
- 2 Isolation p. 19
- 3 Loss p. 26
- 4 Luxuries and necessities p. 34
- 5 Who cares? p. 40
- 6 The elephant in the room/consumerism p. 48
- 7 Guilt p. 53
- 8 The Others p. 58
- 9 Keeping up appearances p. 66
- 10 The child p. 74
- 11 The tyranny of the small things p. 81
- 12 Juggling p. 88
- 13 The downside of help p. 93
- 14 The debt premium p. 98
- 15 Dreams p. 103
- 16 The gift p. 110
- 17 Our participants p. 119.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1447341090
- 9781447341093
- OCLC:
- 1005113842
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