No one would seriously claim that the rush of applicants for UK university and college places
in summer 2009 represented a new found enthusiasm amongst the nation's youth for higher …

Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her
important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to …

Winner of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize for 2013 How do men and women get
by in times and places where opportunities for standard employment have drastically …

This paper examines the much-hyped 2012 Olympic Games 'legacy'in relation to the
displacement experiences of lower-income East Londoners. The paper begins by outlining …

Public housing estates are disappearing from London's skyline in the name of regeneration,
while new mixed-tenure developments are arising in their place. This richly illustrated book …

In this chapter, youth transitions will be discussed in the framework of life course theory and
with a focus on the consequences of the restructuring of work for the timing of adulthood in a …

Beyond the statistics that tend to dominate much public debate, a focus on the experience of
poverty, drawing on psychosocial analysis, reveals its relational as well as material nature …

In the UK, a dominant narrative operates to stereotype and stigmatise out-of-work benefit
claimants as inactive welfare dependents who require activation if they are to enter paid …

based on commissioned papers from both academics and housing activists, and it also
includes a visual essay, bringing together text, images and artworks. One can argue that it is …

Housing has come to play an important role in demarcating the contours of social
polarization in inner London, notably via the widening socio‐spatial divide between an …