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Intro -- Preface -- 1. Understanding Poverty: Then and Now -- 2. The Getting By? Study -- 3. Money Matters -- 4. Working Life -- 5. Meeting Basic Needs -- 6. Home and Family Life -- 7. Family Views: 'Who's to Blame?' -- 8. Liars, Thieves and Honest Scousers -- Appendix I: How the Research Was Conducted -- Appendix II: Family Circumstances and Spending -- References -- Index.

"The 'just about managing'. 'Hardworking families'. 'Alarm-clock Britain'. In recent years British political discourse has been filled with these slogans, as politicians claim to speak on behalf of families who are in work, but struggling to get by. This book allows us to hear from some of these families directly. At a time when the impact of austerity is more relevant than ever, Just Managing? cuts through the debates and sloganeering to give some of the real people behind the headlines and statistics a chance to tell their stories. It tracks the lives of thirty working families in Liverpool over one year, as they struggle to manage on incomes at or around the National Minimum Wage. Their accounts are placed within the economic and political context that has shaped their experiences and that of millions of other working families across the country.
This book is required reading for anyone seeking to understand what life is like at the sharp end of 'austerity Britain'."

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- Ch. 1 - Dorchester -- Ch. 2 - Polio -- Ch. 3 - Stoughton -- Ch. 4 - The Move -- Ch. 5 - Sacramento -- Ch. 6 - Kaiser -- Ch. 7 - Fairmont -- Ch. 8 - Year One -- Ch. 9 - English Major -- Ch. 10 - Fiat Lux -- Ch. 11 - Graduate School -- Ch. 12 - A Berkeley Life -- Ch. 13 - The Sex Surrogate -- Ch. 14 - Poet and Journalist -- Ch. 15 - The Blue Terror -- Afterword.

The Covid-19 pandemic once again brought into sharpened focus the contested relationships of marginalised groups in the criminal law sphere, and the liminal (re-)regulation of space. Over the course of the last four decades, the law has borne witness to an episodic yet regular intertwining of the fortunes of arguably two elements of Britain's counterculture: ravers and travellers, specifically 'new age' travellers. The two groupings of peoples have had a long, complex and often uncomfortable and fractious relationship both with English law, and also its enforcement agencies. This is perhaps particularly evident in the criminal law provisions and sometimes questionable enforcement of the Public Order Act 1986 and the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, through to the social and environmental provisions of the Caravan Sites Act 1968, Entertainments (Increased Penalties) Act 1990, and subsequent provisions. Both the groupings of ravers and travellers have been faced with a series of legislative and administrative measures that, directly or indirectly, curtail or otherwise restrict their choices as to activities, lifestyles and behaviours. The article analyses how the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to some long-established legal and regulatory themes being once again played out in relation to these two counter-cultural groups.

"The 'just about managing'. 'Hardworking families'. 'Alarm-clock Britain'. In recent years British political discourse has been filled with these slogans, as politicians claim to speak on behalf of families who are in work, but struggling to get by. This book allows us to hear from some of these families directly. At a time when the impact of austerity is more relevant than ever, Just Managing? cuts through the debates and sloganeering to give some of the real people behind the headlines and statistics a chance to tell their stories. It tracks the lives of thirty working families in Liverpool over one year, as they struggle to manage on incomes at or around the National Minimum Wage. Their accounts are placed within the economic and political context that has shaped their experiences and that of millions of other working families across the country. This book is required reading for anyone seeking to understand what life is like at the sharp end of 'austerity Britain'."

This book presents an overview of political communication in the Republic of Ireland from a multiplicity of perspectives and sources. It brings together academics and practitioners to examine the development and current shape of political communication in modern Ireland. It also examines what the future holds for political communication in an increasingly gatekeeper-free media landscape.The field of political communication, where journalists, public relations professionals and politicians intersect and interact, has always been a highly contested one fuelled by suspicion, mutual dependence and fraught relationships.While politicians need the media they remain highly suspicious of journalists. While journalists remain wary of politicians, they need access to them for information. For most of the time, what emerges is a relatively stable relationship of mutual dependence with the boundaries policed by public relation professions.However, every so often, in times of political crisis or upheaval, this relationship gives way to a near free-for-all. Politicians, spokespersons and sometimes even journalists, become fair game in the battle for public accountability and support. The determination of public relations professions to avoid this and keep the relationship based on mutual dependence has become a central component of modern statecraft and systems of governance. The need to keep politicians and the media 'on message' and use the media to inform, shape and manage public discourse has become central to the workings of government, opposition and interest groups.On the other hand, the packaging of politics has potentially troublesome implications for the democratic process. In the era of the instant news cycle, new technologies and constant opinion polling, just where does information end and misinformation begin? With millions being spent annually on advisors and 'spin-doctors', just where does media access end and media manipulation begin?

This article reflects on power in contract research relationships. Distinguishing between the overt forms of control and the more subtle aspects of control associated with the 'enculturing' of the researcher, it considers the ways in which power affects their ability to relate to professional practice. The discussion draws on the experience of one researcher working within a local schools service. It concludes that the 'theory-and-practice conundrum' in research is often the result, not of 'ivory tower' limitations of the researcher, but rather of reluctance on the part of senior service managers to allow critical reflection among service professionals.

"As with any human population, early hunter-gatherers in North America spent much of their time and energy on securing a reliable food supply. One efficient means of doing this involved the use of large-scale traps, designed to concentrate large numbers of prey animals for easier slaughter. This important new research from Bryan Hockett and Eric Dillingham examines the archaeological evidence for large-scale traps (defined by the authors as "rock and/or wood features constructed through group or communal effort to trap or ambush migrating artiodactyls" such as bighorn sheep or pronghorn antelope). Focusing their inquiry on the Great Basin region of eastern California, western Utah, and Nevada, Hockett and Dillingham nevertheless draw conclusions from their study that may inform similar research in other parts of the world. With ample color illustrations as well as informative maps, drawings, and tables, this careful study of ancient communal hunting practices offers important insights drawn from some of the oldest large-scale trap structures in the world. Large-Scale Traps of the Great Basin will occupy an important place in the literature of the early inhabitants of North America"--