Cut Out
eBook - ePub

Cut Out

Living Without Welfare

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Cut Out

Living Without Welfare

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Without Welfare, Jeremy Seabrook speaks to people whose support from the state - for whatever reason - is now being withdrawn, rendering their lives unsustainable.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

  1. Cover
  2. Also available
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Series preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. Welfare cuts: the wider context
  11. Being there: a sense of place
  12. The fall of industrial male labour
  13. Benefit fraud
  14. A fate foretold
  15. Sheltered accommodation
  16. Zubeida
  17. Azma
  18. Kareema
  19. Born at the wrong time
  20. Abigail
  21. Adele and Clifford
  22. Graham Chinnery: zero hours
  23. Andrea
  24. Carl Hendricks
  25. Arif Hossein
  26. The idea of reform
  27. People with disability
  28. Amanda
  29. Belfort: survival
  30. Lorraine: in the benefits labyrinth
  31. Jayne Durham
  32. Paula
  33. Violence against women
  34. Faraji
  35. ‘Doing the right thing’
  36. Grace and Richard
  37. ‘It can happen to anyone’
  38. Andrew
  39. Lazy categories
  40. The secret world of ‘welfare’
  41. Self-employment as a refuge
  42. Joshua Ademola
  43. Dayanne: the right thing and the wrong result
  44. The roots of alienation
  45. Imran Noorzai
  46. Farida: the duty of young women
  47. Welfare and mental health
  48. Alison: the loneliness of being on benefit
  49. Kenneth Lennox
  50. Marie Fullerton
  51. Gus: a heroic life
  52. Stolen identities: epitaph for a working class
  53. Conclusion
  54. Further Reading