
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Britain's welfare state, one of the greatest achievements of our post-war reconstruction, was regarded as the cornerstone of modern society. Today, that cornerstone is wilfully being dismantled by a succession of governments, with horrifying consequences. The establishment paints pictures of so-called 'benefit scroungers', the disabled, the sickly and the old. In Cut Out: Living Without Welfare, Jeremy Seabrook speaks to people whose support from the state - for whatever reason - is now being withdrawn, rendering their lives unsustainable. In turns disturbing, eye-opening, and ultimately humanistic, these accounts reveal the reality behind the headlines, and the true nature of British politics today. Published in partnership with the Left Book Club.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Also available
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Welfare cuts: the wider context
- Being there: a sense of place
- The fall of industrial male labour
- Benefit fraud
- A fate foretold
- Sheltered accommodation
- Zubeida
- Azma
- Kareema
- Born at the wrong time
- Abigail
- Adele and Clifford
- Graham Chinnery: zero hours
- Andrea
- Carl Hendricks
- Arif Hossein
- The idea of reform
- People with disability
- Amanda
- Belfort: survival
- Lorraine: in the benefits labyrinth
- Jayne Durham
- Paula
- Violence against women
- Faraji
- ‘Doing the right thing’
- Grace and Richard
- ‘It can happen to anyone’
- Andrew
- Lazy categories
- The secret world of ‘welfare’
- Self-employment as a refuge
- Joshua Ademola
- Dayanne: the right thing and the wrong result
- The roots of alienation
- Imran Noorzai
- Farida: the duty of young women
- Welfare and mental health
- Alison: the loneliness of being on benefit
- Kenneth Lennox
- Marie Fullerton
- Gus: a heroic life
- Stolen identities: epitaph for a working class
- Conclusion
- Further Reading