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Seven Children
Inequality and Britain's Next Generation
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If we found seven typical 5-year-olds to represent today's UK, who would they be? What would their stories reveal? Seven Children is about injustice and hope. Danny Dorling's highly original book constructs seven 'average' children from millions of statistics, each child symbolising the very middle of...
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If we found seven typical 5-year-olds to represent today's UK, who would they be? What would their stories reveal?
Seven Children is about injustice and hope. Danny Dorling's highly original book constructs seven 'average' children from millions of statistics, each child symbolising the very middle of a parental income bracket, from the poorest to the wealthiest. Dorling's seven were born in 2018, when the UK faced its worst inequality since the Great Depression and became Europe's most socially divided nation. They turned 5 in 2023, amid a devastating cost-of-living crisis. Their country has Europe's fastest-rising child poverty rates, and even the best-off of the seven is disadvantaged. Yet aspirations endure.
Immersive, surprising and thought-provoking, Seven Children gets to the heart of post-pandemic Britain's most pressing issues. What do we miss when we focus only on the super rich and the most deprived? What kinds of lives are British children living between the extremes? Why are most British parents on below-average income? Who are today's real middle class? And how can we reverse the trends leaving all children worse off than their parents?
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781911723509
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 September 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Danny Dorling is a social scientist whose books include Inequality and the 1%and All That Is Solid. He is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, and a patron of RoadPeace, Comprehensive Future and Heeley City Farm. In his spare time, he makes sandcastles.
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