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Shattered Nation - Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State (Paperback)
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Shattered Nation - Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State (Paperback)
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Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most
unequal. In Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of
Inequality and the 1% shows that we are growing further and further
apart. Visiting sites across the British Isles and exploring the
social fissures that have emerged, Danny Dorling exposes a new
geography of inequality. Middle England has been hit hard by the
cost-of-living crisis, and even people doing comparatively well are
struggling to stay afloat. Once affluent suburbs are now
unproductive places where opportunity has been replaced by food
banks. Before COVID, life expectancy had dropped as a result of
poverty for the first time since the 1930s. Fifty years ago the UK
led the world in child health; today, twenty-two of the
twenty-seven EU countries have better mortality rates for newborns.
No other European country has such miserly unemployment benefits;
university fees so high; housing so unaffordable; or a government
economically so far to the right. In the spirit of the 1942
Beveridge Report, Dorling identifies the five giants of
twenty-first-century poverty that need to be conquered: Hunger,
Precarity, Waste, Exploitation, and Fear. He offers powerful
insights into how we got here and what we must do in order to save
Britain from becoming a failed state.
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