Feeding the Family When the Wolf's at the Door: The Impact of Over-Indebtedness on Contemporary Foodways in Low-Income Families in the UK
2012; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 20; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/07409710.2012.652016
ISSN1542-3484
Autores Tópico(s)Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Sunday Times, 25 September 1988. 2. Sunday Times, 18 August 1991. 3. National Audit Office, Tackling Obesity in England 2001, http://www.nao.gov.uk/publications/nao_reports/00-01/0001220.pdf 4. BBC News online, 15 January 2009. 5. "Thrift" and "frugality" are often used interchangeably in the press, as in Melissa Benn's Guardian article, 2 July 2008. There, Bob Holman, "Christian Socialist and renowned community worker," is described as launching a new moral movement for modest living, calling on his fellow citizens to live according to "need rather than greed" in the face of "the seductive power of turbo consumerism." However, Benn entitles the article "The Shift to Thrift," thereby using a notion encompassing cost and value for money rather than the self-denial inherent in Holman's modest or frugal living. In popular parlance, "frugal" is most commonly used, as he does, when signifying very modest living—but without necessarily connoting the ideological commitment to privileging need over other drivers of consumption—such as the "greed" that Holman juxtaposes against "need," in order to promote resistance to consumerism. 6. See http://www.slowfood.com/about_us/eng/philosophy.lasso 7. Income support is a UK welfare benefit paid to people who are not in full-time work, whose income falls below a prescribed level, and who meet certain conditions. If you receive income support, you are also entitled to certain other benefits, for example, in relation to housing and health costs. 8. Housing Benefit is a UK means tested social security benefit intended to help meet housing costs for rented accommodation. 9. If you owe no more than £5,000 to at least two creditors and have a court judgment entered against you by one of your creditors which you are unable to pay in full, you can ask the court to make an administration order. Under that order, you are required to make weekly, monthly, or quarterly payments from your income to the court, which distributes them to your creditors in the proportion to the amounts that you owe them. 10. In one or two cases only, interviewees made explicit reference to the fact that payment was significant in acting as an incentive to participation. More commonly, people professed, at the end of the interview when payment was made, to have forgotten about it, and were much more explicit about the value of being able to talk at length about their debts to a non-judgmental "other." Nevertheless, there were also comments, as payment was made, about the intention to spend it on food. 11. Pseudonyms have been used throughout. 12. A phenomenon that has been referred to as "sexually transmitted debt'or "STD" (Kaye 1997 Kaye, M. 1997. Equity's treatment of sexually transmitted debt. Feminist Legal Studies, V/1: 35–55. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]). 13. U.S.: repo men. 14. Tesco is the UK's largest supermarket, followed by Asda (now owned by Walmart); the two constantly compete on pricing. Marks and Spencer (M&S), known more as a clothing retailer, also has up-market food halls—with prices to match. Sainsburys might be seen as the traditional home of the middle-class shopper; it is cheaper and has a more comprehensive range of foods (and household goods) than M&S while still promoting quality, but it has lost market share to Asda and Tesco. Both German-owned, Aldi and Lidl are so-called hard discounters selling a limited range of imported lines. 15. U.S.: fries. 16. Buying on "tick" is where a small retailer allows (usually known and trusted) customers to take goods and pay for them later. Historically, the shopkeeper would keep account of what is owed by writing it on a metal "slate"—hence customers wanting to buy "on tick" might ask for it to be put "on the slate." In the 1950s and '60s, when my father was a butcher and used paper-based bookkeeping, certain customers would request "tick" by asking for their purchases to be put "in the book." 17. Sandwich.
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