The Violence of Austerity, livre ebook

Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain.
In The Violence of Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices of campaigners and academics including Danny Dorling, Mary O'Hara and Rizwaan Sabir to show that rather than stimulating economic growth, austerity policies have led to a dismantling of the social systems that operated as a buffer against economic hardship, exposing austerity to be a form of systematic violence.
Covering a range of famous cases of institutional violence in Britain, the book argues that police attacks on the homeless, violent evictions in the rented sector, the risks faced by people on workfare schemes, community violence in Northern Ireland and cuts to the regulation of social protection, are all being driven by reductions in public sector funding. The result is a shocking expose of the myriad ways in which austerity policies harm people in Britain.

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