Why You Won’t Get Rich

And Why You Deserve Better Than This

Robert Verkaik

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Oneworld Publications
04 May 2021

Poverty & unemployment; Social discrimination; Social mobility; Social classes

"""In 2018, UN representatives spent two weeks in a single country investigating child poverty, concluding that it was 'not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster'. That country was the United Kingdom.

Who are the new faces of poverty? The same people we applaud as heroes: policemen, nurses and firefighters. While a select few have gotten unthinkably rich in the past ten years, crushing levels of personal debt, high rents, low wages and a punitive welfare system have brought countless others to the brink of financial collapse.

It doesn’t take a lot to end up on the breadline in Britain. And once you’re there, it’s nearly impossible to get out of it. These are the unseen victims of a broken economy."""

By: Robert Verkaik
Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 27mm
ISBN: 9781786078070
ISBN 10: 1786078074
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 04 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Verkaik is a journalist and author of Posh Boys: How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain. He writes for the Guardian, Independent, the i, Observer, Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times. His reporting was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010 and he was a runner-up in the specialist journalist category at the 2013 National Press Awards. He lives in Surrey.

Reviews for Why You Won’t Get Rich: And Why You Deserve Better Than This

'How the system became rigged so that even the fortunate lose out: a masterpiece.' * Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% * 'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.' * Andrew Marr, Sunday Times on Posh Boys * '[Verkaik's] hard-hitting, forensic takedown does propose measures that could lead to a more equitable system.' -- Herald (Glasgow)