Dear UK colleagues,
For its last seminar of the 2020-21 academic year, the Research Centre on the English Speaking World of the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris will welcome Stewart Lansley for his new book The Richer, the Poorer, How Britain enriched the few and failed the poor, a 200 year history (Policy Press, 2021).
Stewart Lansley is visiting fellow at the University of Bristol and specialises in the study of poverty and inequalities in the UK. He helped redefine poverty in the 1980s by publishing Poor Britain with Joanna Mack and using “a consensual methodology” for measuring poverty. He is the author of many books including A Basic Income For All (Compass 2019) and Breadline Britain (Oneworld, 2015). He is a member of the council of the Progressive Economy Forum and a Research Associate of the think-tank Compass.
The seminar will take place online on GoogleMeet on 6th July between 3.00 pm and 5.00 pm GMT. To register, please send a message to: [log in to unmask]
You will find a summary of the book below.
Regards,
David Fée
For 200 years, Britain’s most powerful elites have been allowed to enrich themselves at the expense of surging inequality and mass poverty. This landmark book charts the roller coaster history of both rich and poor, and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment.
Lansley traces the way financiers and executives have ruthlessly exploited their power to extract existing wealth at the cost of livelihoods and social resilience. He examines the bitter ideological rifts that have driven society back to the extreme divisions of the past. Why, he asks, are rich and poor citizens judged by very different standards, and why is the long ‘cycle of privilege’ as embedded today as a century earlier?
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