Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Violence of Austerity
Vickie Cooper and David Whyte

PART I DEADLY WELFARE

  1. Mental Health and Suicide
Mary O’Hara

  2. Austerity and Mortality
Danny Dorling

  3. Welfare Reforms and the Attack on Disabled People
John Pring

  4. The Violence of Workfare
Jon Burnett and David Whyte

  5. The Multiple Forms of Violence in the Asylum System
Victoria Canning

  6. The Degradation and Humiliation of Young People
Emma Bond and Simon Hallsworth

PART II POVERTY AMPLIFICATION

  7. Child Maltreatment and Child Mortality
Joanna Mack

  8. Hunger and Food Poverty
Rebecca O’Connell and Laura Hamilton

  9. The Deadly Impact of Fuel Poverty
Ruth London

10. The Violence of the Debtfare State
David Ellis

11. Women of Colour’s Anti-Austerity Activism
Akwugo Emejulu and Leah Bassel

12. Dismantling the Irish Peace Process
Daniel Holder

PART III STATE REGULATION

13. Undoing Social Protection
Steve Tombs

14. Health and Safety at the Frontline of Austerity
Hilda Palmer and David Whyte

15. Environmental Degradation
Charlotte Burns and Paul Tobin

16. Fracking and State Violence
Will Jackson, Helen Monk and Joanna Gilmore

17. Domicide, Eviction and Repossession
Kirsteen Paton and Vickie Cooper

18. Austerity’s Impact on Rough Sleeping and Violence
Daniel McCulloch

PART IV STATE CONTROL

19. Legalising the Violence of Austerity
Robert Knox

20. The Failure to Protect Women in the Criminal Justice System
Maureen Mansfield and Vickie Cooper

21. Austerity, Violence and Prisons
Joe Sim

22. Evicting Manchester’s Street Homeless
Steven Speed

23. Policing Anti-Austerity through the ‘War on Terror’
Rizwaan Sabir

24. Austerity and the Production of Hate
Jon Burnett

Notes on Contributors

Index