Poverty Propaganda

Dr Tracy Shildrick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle. She is co-author of Poverty and insecurity (Policy Press, 2012) which won the Peter Townsend 2013 prize. Her research interests span youth transitions, worklessness, poverty and social exclusion.

• Introduction; Poverty propaganda;Lived realities;Labour markets and ‘poor work’;Class and social immobility; Discrimination, stigma and shame;Poverty propaganda and the (re)production of poverty and privilege; Conclusions.

"An essential guide to poverty in 21st Century Britain. Poverty Propaganda examines how the truth about poverty, its causes and consequences, continue to be hidden behind headlines, stories and images of the feckless undeserving poor." Imogen Tyler, University of Lancaster