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" Hard times : "
Tom Clark, with Anthony Heath.
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BL
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626778
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Clark, Tom,1976-
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Hard times : : the divisive toll of the economic slump /\ Tom Clark, with Anthony Heath.
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xi, 298 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9780300203776 (alk. paper)
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: 0300203772 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-289) and index.
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Not quite 1933 -- All in it together? -- Mapping the black stuff -- Toil and trouble -- Anxious individuals, unhappy homes -- The small society -- The long shadow -- A tale of two tragedies -- The veil of complacency -- Shelter from the storm.
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"2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addressed the financial crisis, very little has been written about its social consequences. Journalist Tom Clark draws on the research of a transatlantic team led by Professors Anthony Heath and Robert D. Putnam to determine the great recession's toll on individuals, families, and community bonds in the United States and the United Kingdom. The ubiquitous metaphor of the crisis has been an all-encompassing "financial storm," but Clark argues that the data tracks the narrow path of a tornado--destroying some neighborhoods while leaving others largely untouched. In our vastly unequal societies, disproportionate suffering is being meted out to the poor--and the book's new analysis suggests that the scars left by unemployment and poverty will linger long after the economy recovers." -- Publisher's description.
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Recessions-- Social aspects.
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009-- Social aspects.
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United States, Economic conditions, 2009-
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United States, Social conditions.
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Great Britain, Economic conditions, 1997-
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Great Britain, Social conditions.
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330.973
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Heath, A. F., (Anthony Francis)
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