Understanding Society

Name: Understanding Society
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Understanding SocietyPoverty, Wealth and Inequality in the UK\nAuthor(s): Carlo Morelli, Paul Seaman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138894440, 978-1138894440\nSynopsis\nThis poignant book examines poverty, wealth and inequality in the UK, and provides insight into its history, its present-day forms and possible routes to its eradication.\n\nThe book demonstrates how poverty, wealth and inequality are constructed in the UK, noting that it is not an innate part of the human experience, but a phenomenon which is constructed by economic and social circumstances. Using work ranging from Malthus interrogation of the natural right of the poor to full support in [] society to more contemporary approaches, including Thomas Picketty's Capitalism in the Twenty First Century, the authors examine various forms of poverty, wealth and inequality in the UK, using the UK Household Longitudinal Study, Understanding Society, dat.