The violence of austerity /
edited by Vickie Cooper and David Whyte.
- 1 online resource (vii, 238 pages).
Academic
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the violence of austerity / Vickie Cooper and David Whyte -- part I. Deadly welfare -- Mental health and suicide / Mary O'Hara -- Austerity and mortality / Danny Dorling -- Welfare reforms and the attack on disabled people / John Pring -- The violence of workfare / Jon Burnett and David Whyte -- The multiple forms of violence in the asylum system / Victoria Canning -- The degradation and humiliation of young people / Emma Bond and Simon Hallsworth -- part II. Poverty amplification -- Child maltreatment and child mortality / Joanna Mack -- Hunger and food poverty / Rebecca O'Connell and Laura Hamilton -- The deadly impact of fuel poverty / Ruth London -- The violence of the debtfare state / David Ellis -- Women of colour's anti-austerity activism / Akwugo Emejulu and Leah Bassel -- Dismantling the Irish peace process / Daniel Holder -- part III. State regulation -- Undoing social protection / Steve Tombs -- Health and safety at the frontlist of austerity / Hilda Palmer and David Whyte -- Environmental degradation / Charlotte Burns and Paul Tobin -- Fracking and state violence / Will Jackson, Helen Monk and Joanna Gilmore -- Domicide, eviction and repossession / Kirsteen Paton and Vickie Cooper -- Austerity's impact on rough sleeping and violence / Daniel McCulloch -- part IV. State control -- Legalising the violence of austerity / Robert Knox -- The failure to protect women in the criminal justice system / Maureen Mansfield and Vickie Cooper -- Austerity, violence and prisons / Joe Sim -- Evicting Manchester's street homeless / Steven Speed -- Policing anti-austerity through the 'War on Terror' / Rizwaan Sabir -- Austerity and the production of hate / Jon Burnett.
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