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E-book Families and Food in Hard Times : European comparative research
This book, Families and Food in Hard Times, is about our world in the second decade of the twenty-first century and how parents living on low incomes in wealthy societies manage to feed their families. Although very different from the world of Dickens, in some respects today’s world mir-rors elements of his time because of the harsh realities of poverty among large sections of the population in the Global North. Just as the poor in many of Dickens’s novels struggle to keep their heads above water, to put food on the table and to hold on to their dignity, so too do the low-income families who have been living through the period since the 2008 global financial crisis. Now, as in the nineteenth century, food poverty in rich societies powerfully reveals ‘the fundamental shortcomings of unbridled reliance on markets’ (Poppendieck 2012,565). n Dickens’s Hard Times, workers’ aspirations for better standards of living were denigrated as unrealistic; entitlements to ‘turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon’ were not for the likes of them.
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