Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and boxes
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Poor work, welfare and poverty
- 3 Researching the low-pay, no-pay cycle and recurrent poverty
- 4 The low-pay, no-pay cycle: the perspectives and practices of employers and ‘welfare to work’ agencies
- 5 The low-pay, no-pay cycle: its pattern and people's commitment to work
- 6 Searching for jobs: qualifications, support for the workless and the good and bad of informal social networks
- 7 Poor work: insecurity and churning in deindustrialised labour markets
- 8 ‘The ties that bind’: ill health and caring and their impact on the low-pay, no-pay cycle
- 9 Poverty and social insecurity
- 10 Conclusions
- References
- Index
List of figures and boxes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and boxes
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Poor work, welfare and poverty
- 3 Researching the low-pay, no-pay cycle and recurrent poverty
- 4 The low-pay, no-pay cycle: the perspectives and practices of employers and ‘welfare to work’ agencies
- 5 The low-pay, no-pay cycle: its pattern and people's commitment to work
- 6 Searching for jobs: qualifications, support for the workless and the good and bad of informal social networks
- 7 Poor work: insecurity and churning in deindustrialised labour markets
- 8 ‘The ties that bind’: ill health and caring and their impact on the low-pay, no-pay cycle
- 9 Poverty and social insecurity
- 10 Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Poverty and InsecurityLife in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain, pp. ivPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2012