Description
About the Author
Mary O'Hara is an award-winning journalist, author and producer. Her journalism appears in publications including The Guardian and Mosaic Science. She is the author of two books: The Shame Game: Overturning the toxic poverty narrative (2020) & Austerity Bites: A journey to the sharp end of cuts in the UK (2014) and is founder of the multi-platform anti-poverty initiative, Project Twist-It. Mary has directed/produced short films, run a comedy club, been a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley and a producer and consultant on Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness. In 2020 she was named Best Foreign Columnist at the Southern California Journalism Awards.
Reviews
"A fine record of how it feels to be among those who have been selected to pay the highest price for a crisis they had no part in producing." Sociology
"Should be required reading for every MP, peer, councillor, civil servant and commentator. The fury and sense of powerlessness that so many people feel at government policy beam out of every page." Melissa Benn, Guardian
Voted one of the Guardian best books of 2014 by Owen Jones "Strips bare the reality of what Osbornomics means for human beings and, crucially, gives a platform to voices that are otherwise unheard and deliberately ignored." The Guardian
"One of the best critiques I have ever read of how 'WongaLand', the profiteering by money lenders and pawn shops, has caused massive financial burdens and hardships for the poorest families whilst making massive profits for the businesses." Sociology
"Mary O'Hara's book strips away the rhetoric to reveal the truth. The United Kingdom is not the land of fairness, it's a fearful place, where the heaviest burdens fall on the weakest." Simon Duffy, Director of the Centre for Welfare Reform
"Both the immediate injustice and the waste of human potential leap from the pages of this book." Kitty Stewart, LSE
"A welcome addition to our understanding of the real meaning of austerity in comtemporary Britain." Community Development Journal
Book Information
ISBN 9781447315704
Author Mary O'Hara
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Policy Press
Publisher Bristol University Press