Book - The Richer The Poorer, How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor a 200-year history

What is it about?

There are several studies which have chronicled, separately, the sweeping history of inequality, of wealth and of poverty. By telling the story of impoverishment and enrichment side by side, The Richer, The Poorer explores the extent to which the apparently separate fates of rich and poor have been critically linked. What impact, the book asks, has the process of personal enrichment by the few had on the livelihoods, life chances and incomes of the many? Has it been right for policymakers to treat poverty over most of this period as a largely distinct condition, independent of the structural forces that determine how the economic cake is sliced?

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Why is it important?

It's the first book that studies the historic relationship between poverty and inequality