Just Managing? : What it Means for the Families of Austerity Britain

The ‘just about managing’. ‘Hardworking families’. ‘Alarm-clock Britain’. In recent years British political discourse has been filled with these slogans, as politicians claim to speak on behalf of families who are in work, but struggling to get by. This book allows us to hear from some of these fami...

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Автори: Paul Kyprianou, Mark O'Brien
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Опубліковано: Open Book Publishers 2021
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