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The Experience of Poverty in an Unequal Society

11 pages

This paper looks at the relationship between poverty, the way our economy is structured and the precarious nature of our reliance on consumption, arguing that dependence on consumption is detrimental to all people who make up society. The author also highlights the discrimination suffered by people living in poverty and claims that the first step to tackle poverty is tackling stigma. This paper is part of a series of papers which have resulted from the Whose Economy? seminar series, held in Scotland in 2010 – 2011, whose purpose was to provide a space for researchers, representative organisations, policy-makers and people with experience of poverty to come together and explore the causes of poverty and inequality in today’s Scotland.

KeywordsCivil society Discrimination Poverty in the UK United Kingdom