Description: An edited collection which explores the different facets of how austerity in Britain is a form of institutional violence.
Brief description: David Whyte is professor of socio-legal studies at the University of Liverpool and the editor of How Corrupt is Britain?, also published by Pluto Press.
Review Quotes: "The Violence of Austerity is a dazzling collection of short essays which detail how state violence is unfolding in Britain on multiple scales and in myriad forms. This comprehensive mapping of the effects of this war against human welfare marks an important intervention in debates about the future of British state. It is also an important historical record of the ways in which people are resisting the depletion of their families and communities by bureaucratic agents of neoliberal capitalism."-- "Imogen Tyler, author of Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain"