The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History

Front Cover -- Testimonials Page -- The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched The Few And Failed The Poor -- Copyright Information -- Series Information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Figures -- Preface And Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Knighthoods For The Rich, Penalties For The Poor -- Part I 1800-1939 -- 1 Hierarchical Discipline -- God's Will -- The Age Of Capital -- 2 Britain's Gilded Age -- Extractive Capitalism -- An Ideological Counter-offensive -- 3 Public Penury And Private Ostentation -- The 'undeserving Rich' And The 'deserving Poor' A Plutocratic Playground -- 4 A Roller-coaster Ride -- A Conscription Of Riches -- What About The Rentiers? -- Icy Indifference -- Part Ii 1940-59 -- 5 The Future Belongs To Us -- A Patrician Last Fling -- The Turning Of The Public Mood -- Not For Patching -- 6 Britain's 'new Deal' -- Treachery -- 7 Brave New World -- A Plimsoll Line For Incomes -- The Cracks Appear -- What Is Poverty? -- 8 A Shallow Consensus -- The 'people' Versus The 'old Gang' -- Egalitarian Optimism -- Part Iii 1960-79 -- 9 The Rediscovery Of Poverty -- The Poor And The Poorest -- The Rise Of The Poverty Lobby 10 Poorer Under Labour -- About-turn -- Burying Beveridge -- 11 Consolidation Or Advance? -- A Doomed Species? -- Spreading Wealth -- 12 Peak Equality -- The Battle For Child Benefit -- Statistical Darkness -- A Harsh Lesson On The Politics Of Distribution -- Part Iv 1980-96 -- 13 Don't Mention The 'p' Word -- This Is What We Believe -- Let Our Children Grow Tall -- 14 Zapping Labour -- A Wave Of Panic -- Financialisation -- Poverty: A No-go Area -- 15 The Dark Shadow Of The Poor Law -- A War Of Attrition -- Shirkers And Scroungers -- Heavy-handed Tactics -- The Shift In Lobbying Power 16 The Great Widening -- Poverty In Paradise -- An Economic Megashift -- 17 Money Worship -- Tomorrow's Money Today -- A Multi-speed Society -- A Two-thirds, One-third Society -- Part V 1997-2010 -- 18 The Elephant In The Room -- Pragmatic Realism -- Blair's War On Poverty -- 19 Still Born To Rule -- Morally Naked -- The Great Gatsby Curve -- 20 I'm Not Mother Teresa -- An Orgy Of Self-enrichment -- Western Hubris -- In The Service Of Power -- Gap Thinking -- Immune To Inequality -- 21 The House Of Cards -- The 2008 Crash -- Me, More, Now -- 22 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Wealth Begetting Wealth -- Governing For All -- Part Vi 2011-20 -- 23 Divide And Rule: Playing Politics With Poverty -- Poverty Plus A Pound -- An Old Libel -- Don't Push Me In A Statistic -- 24 A Leaner State -- Folklore Economics -- A Disciplinary State -- Communist Clerics -- 25 Burning Injustice -- Filling The Gaps -- Inequality Denial -- 26 Growing Rich In Their Sleep -- Giving Everyone A Stake -- Corporate Overreach -- 27 Breaking The High-inequality, High-poverty Cycle -- The Ghosts Of The Past -- More Than Patching -- Afterword: Covid-19 And 'the Polo Season' Stewart Lansley. The Exposed Poor, The Shielded Rich. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.