Austerity · The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy
- Authors
- Mendoza, Kerry-anne
- Publisher
- New Internationalist
- Tags
- farage , incapacity benefit , rogoff , tuition fees , cameron , workfare , nhs , structural adjustment , social democracy , conservative , zombie economy , austerity , osborne , social housing , ukip , politics , welfare state , free school , employment rights , civil liberties , bretton woods , neoliberalism , ttip , bedroom tax , mit , capitalism , police state , financial crisis , student loans , securitization , universal credit , inequality , financialization , state school , reinhart , surveillance , social security , new labour , pfi , corporate power , imf , privatization , immigration , human rights , private finance initiative , benefits , business , labour , corporate fascism
- ISBN
- 9781780262475
- Date
- 2014-11-21T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.25 MB
- Lang
- en
For the last five years, Britain has been under the hammer of Austerity . In its name, wages have been frozen, benefits have been slashed and public spending squeezed. The pain of a financial crisis caused by bankers and speculators has been borne by ordinary people all over the country and by the poor and disabled most of all."