| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 367 pages) |
| Contents |
Front cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: The inconvenient truth: poverty is real -- A short prologue -- 1 Who are these 'poor' people anyway? Being on the breadline in Britain -- 2 What? There are poor people in the richest nation on earth? -- Part II: Turning the screw on poor people: shame, stigma and cementing of a toxic poverty narrative -- 3 A twisted tale: evolution of the poverty narrative -- 4 Lights, camera, vilification: the narrative in action |
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5 The games we play: weaponising the narrative -- 6 Shame on you: making the toxic narrative stick -- Part III: Flipping the script: challenging the narrative war on the poor -- 7 Feeling it: the truth about living in poverty -- 8 Changing times: fighting poverty, not the poor -- 9 New generation: young people writing their own script -- 10 Altered images: constructing a new narrative -- Notes -- Selected further reading -- Index -- Back cover |
| Summary |
Drawing on a two-year story-telling project and her own experience of childhood poverty, this book by award-winning journalist and author Mary O'Hara, argues for a radical overhaul of the dominant narrative of poverty in the UK and US, using the real experts to try to find answers - the people who live it |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Poverty -- Great Britain
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Poverty -- United States
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Poverty -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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Poverty -- Social aspects -- United States
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Poverty -- Public opinion
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Poverty
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Poverty -- Public opinion
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Poverty -- Social aspects
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Great Britain
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
e-books.
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Livres numériques.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781447349273 |
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144734927X |
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9781447349280 |
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1447349288 |
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