John Hills

Good times, bad times

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Produktbeschreibung

This revised edition uses extensive updated research and survey evidence to challenge the view of 'skivers versus strivers', showing how much our lives vary not just as we age, but from week-to-week and year-to-year.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781447336471
• ISBN-10: 144733647X
• Artikelnr.: 46601979

Autorenporträt

JOHN HILLS is Vice Chair of the Association for Family Therapy and British correspondent of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Them and us
Are the poor too expensive? Redistribution and the welfare state
The long view: Social policies and the life cycle
It's complicated: High frequency living
Good years, bad years: Reacting to change
The long wave: Wealth and retirement
The longest wave: From generation to generation
A moving backdrop: Economic crisis, cuts, growth and ageing
Conclusion: Britain's misunderstood welfare state.