TY - BOOK AU - Mendoza, Kerry Anne. TI - Austerity: the demolition of the welfare state and the rise of the zombie economy SN - 9781780262468 U1 - 330.941MEN PY - 2015/// CY - Oxford PB - New Internationalist KW - Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 21st century; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st century N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - For the last five years, Britain has been under the hammer of ?Austerity?. In its name, wages have been frozen, benefits have been slashed and public spending squeezed. The pain of a financial crisis caused by bankers and speculators has been borne by ordinary people all over the country ? and by the poor and disabled most of all ER -