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Poverty in Black and White: Deprivation and ethnic minorities Kaushika Amin, with Carey Oppenheim
Drawing on the joint expertise of CPAG and The Runnymede Trust, Poverty in Black and White examines such issues as: the racial segregation of the labour market; the low pay, poor working conditions and unemployment suffered by workers from minority ethnic groups; the way in which immigration policies create and compound poverty; how the social security system discriminates against particular minorities. It also puts forward broad areas of policy change which begin to tackle racist injustice. Exploring the link between poverty, racial discrimination and immigration policy, the authors set out to explain why so often to be a member of a minority ethnic group is to be poor. '(Poverty in Black and White) aims to challenge the 'colour-blind' approach to poverty on the part of policy makers' Voluntary Voice Published by CPAG in association with The Runnymede Trust. 72 pages 0 946744 44 0 1992 £6.95 Hardship Britain: Being poor in the 1990s Ruth Cohen, Jill Coxall, Gary Craig and Azra Sadiq-Sangster
Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with income support claimants, Hardship Britain provides the first major qualitative assessment of the effects of the 1988 social security reforms on the lives of people receiving benefits. With special emphasis on the lives of people from minority ethnic groups, the focus is on the experience of poverty and exclusion, and its impact on self-esteem and personal dignity. Professionals and academics have all had their say about the nature of poverty. In Hardship Britain claimants speak for themselves. Hardship Britain gets to the heart of what it means to be poor in the 1990s. 'Highlights major problems...at a time when the number of children living on the safety net has more than doubled' The Independent 'The first major assessment of the 1988 income support changes' Social Work Today 'This is an often harrowing account of life on benefit. In their own words, claimants tell of missed meals, second-hand clothes and dependence. An eye-opener for all in employment' Time Out Published by CPAG in association with Family Service Units. 128 pages 0 946744 37 8 1992 £6.95 Consuming Credit: Debt and poverty in the UK Janet Ford
Consuming Credit examines the links between increased poverty, the growth of the credit industry and the problems of debt. Issues examined include: the exclusion of the poor from some forms of credit, and how they are channelled into higher cost repayment schemes; the concentration of debt amongst the poor; the social and personal consequences of debt; the burden that falls on women; protection for credit users; remedies. 'A comprehensive new examination of the intertwined threads of increasing poverty, credit use and debt' Observer 'Provides a useful analysis of how the Government's liberalisation of credit has failed to increase choice for lower income groups...The strength of Janet Ford's study is her success in documenting a wide variety of material on credit and debt and combining this with an analysis of how poverty causes debt, rather than vice versa' Roof 'Janet Ford's book is not dry economics. It is laced with cameos portraying the reality of being poor' - The New Review (Low Pay Unit) 128 pages 0 946744 32 7 1991 £5.95 Windows of Opportunity: Public policy and the poor Saul Becker (ed)
Looking at the prospects offered by the European Union, and by other economic, social and demographic changes forecast for the UK, Windows of Opportunity lays the foundations of a new agenda for the future. An agenda based on a genuine commitment to the principles of citizenship, participation and real opportunity for all. Contributors: Pete Alcock, Saul Becker, Fran Bennett, Alan Deacon, Peter Golding, Paul Gordon, Jane Millar, Graham Room, Jill Vincent. Foreword: Peter Townsend. 'A book attempting to set out policy goals for the 90s...encompassing not only social security but employment opportunities, taxation and quality public services' The Guardian 'Calls on all the major political parties to review their policies in order to abolish poverty by the end of the century' Daily Telegraph 'Expertise, clarity and readability, up-to-dateness, careful argument...A rich quarry of facts, ideas and arguments...You will not find anything better' - Professor Paul Wilding 'Helps to re-orientate and re-invigorate what has become a stale debate about poverty' Social Work Today 144 pages 0 946744 35 1 1991 £6.95 The Exclusive Society: Citizenship and the poor Ruth Lister
Ruth Lister argues that poverty excludes millions from the full rights of citizenship, and proposes a charter of social citizenship which can bridge the gap between common and self interest. 'The Exclusive Society shows how in civil life, in politics and in society we must become one nation again. That means including the poor, and on the basis of new values which take their cue from the poor. This is the agenda for the 1990s' Revd Dr John Vincent (former President of the Methodist Conference) 'On every page of Ruth Lister's The Exclusive Society you can feel that an original mind is working to recast the political agenda of the 1990s in the new language of citizenship' Michael Ignatieff, Observer 96 pages 0 946744 26 2 1990 £4.95 Changing Tax: How the tax system works and how to change it John Hills
An authoritative guide to all the major elements of the British tax system and how they interrelate. Changing Tax demystifies an important area of public policy that few people really understand. It also presents detailed options for reform that would lead to a fairer distribution of wealth. 'As lucid a guide to tax reform as any that has been published in the 1980s' The Independent 'An ideal introduction for every student of taxation and income distribution' Professor David Piachaud 'An extremely clear guide to the challenges facing would-be tax reformers' Professor Mervyn King, co-author of The British Tax System 64 pages A4 illustrated 0 946744 14 9 1988 £8.95 Child Benefit: Investing in the future Joan C Brown
Child benefit provides parents and children with a degree of security in today's uncertain labour market. Paid to all families, it is concrete evidence of the value attached to children and child-rearing in our society. For anyone concerned about the future of this benefit Joan Brown's book provides the fullest examination of current arguments for and against. 'Exceptionally good...clear, cool, free of sociological jargon, it looks not just at the nuts and bolts, but at the deeper philosophy that sustains the benefit. The book is a model of its kind' Polly Toynbee, The Guardian 88 pages 0 946744 11 4 1988 £3.95 The Growing Divide: A social audit 1979-1987 Alan Walker and Carol Walker (eds)
A definitive examination of the social consequences of Thatcherism. 'A damning report...reveals that while the grasping rich have got steadily richer, the poor have been left wallowing in ever increasing misery' Daily Mirror 'The scale of what has been happening in Britain is chronicled in devastating detail' - The Guardian 'True to the CPAG tradition (it) presents its analysis in meticulous detail' - New Society 168 pages 0 946744 04 1 1987 £5.95 Peter Golding (ed)
One of the first ground-breaking publications to explore the exclusion of the poor from full participation in society, looking at leisure pursuits, political life, financial institutions, and new entertainment and communication technologies. Contributors: Meghnad Desai, Peter Golding, Graham Murdock, Alan Tomlinson, Jan Toporowski, Sue Ward, Stuart Williams. Foreword: Peter Townsend. 'This is a timely and important survey' - Tribune 84 pages 0 903963 97 3 1986 £4.95 CPAG also publishes: Welfare rights and advice handbooks
See our welfare rights titles for CPAG's Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook and the full range of practical handbooks on benefits and other issues relevant to anyone living on a low income.
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