Overview: Provides timely discussion on the affects of austerity politics on family life.Explores the social and personal impacts of the economic downturn.Draws upon two years of in-depth ethnographic research .This book is about the impact of austerity in and on everyday life, based on a two-year ethnography with families and communities in ‘Argleton’, Greater Manchester, UK. Focused on family, friends and intimate relations, and their intersections, the book develops a relational approach to everyday austerity. It reveals how austerity is a deeply personal and social condition, with impacts
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