The violence of austerity / edited by Vickie Cooper and David Whyte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooper, Vickie, editor.

Whyte, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial crises--Government policy--Great Britain.

Financial crises.

Great Britain--Economic policy.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social conditions--21st century.

Great Britain--Economic conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2017.

Summary:

Explores the different facets of how austerity in Britain is a form of institutional violence.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Violence of Austerity - Vickie Cooper and David Whyte

Part I: Deadly Welfare

1. Mental Health and Suicide - Mary O'Hara

2. Austerity and Mortality - Danny Dorling

3. Welfare Reforms and the Attack on Disabled People - John Pring

4. The Violence of Workfare - Jon Burnett and David Whyte

5. The Multiple Forms of Violence in the Asylum System - Victoria Canning

6. The Degradation and Humiliation of Young People - Emma Bond and Simon Hallsworth

Part II: Poverty Amplification

7. Child Maltreatment and Child Mortality - Joanna Mack

8. Hunger and Food Poverty - Rebecca O'Connell and Laura Hamilton

9. The Deadly Impact of Fuel Poverty - Ruth London

10. The Violence of the Debtfare State - David Ellis

11. Women of Colour's Anti-Austerity Activism - Akwugo Emejulu and Leah Bassel

12. Dismantling the Irish Peace Process - Daniel Holder

Part III: State Regulation

13. Undoing Social Protection - Steve Tombs

14. Health and Safety at the Frontlist of Austerity - Hilda Palmer and David Whyte

15. Environmental Degradation - Charlotte Burns and Paul Tobin

16. Fracking and State Violence - Will Jackson, Helen Monk and Joanna Gilmore

17. Domicide, Eviction and Repossession - Kirsteen Paton and Vickie Cooper

18. Austerity's Impact on Rough Sleeping and Violence - Daniel McCulloch

Part IV: State Control

19. Legalising the Violence of Austerity - Robert Knox

20. The Failure to Protect Women in the Criminal Justice System - Maureen Mansfield and Vickie Cooper

21. Austerity, Violence and Prisons - Joe Sim

22. Evicting Manchester's Street Homeless - Steven Speed

23. Policing Anti-Austerity through the 'War on Terror' - Rizwaan Sabir

24. Austerity and the Production of Hate - Jon Burnett

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 14, 2017).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78680-062-4

OCLC:

987569574