All Together Now? (eBook)

Mike Carter (Autor)

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2019 | 1. Auflage
352 Seiten
Guardian Faber Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78335-158-9 (ISBN)

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'This important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book should be read by every politician in Westminster.' Adrian Tempany, Observer 'In a few weeks' time, it would be thirty-five years to the day since those men and women had walked 340 miles to try to save their communities and their culture, and thirty-five years since I had turned down Pete's invitation to join them. I called work and booked some time off. Then I bought a one-way train ticket to Liverpool.' In 1981, Mike Carter's dad, Pete, organised the People's March for Jobs, which saw 300 people walk from Liverpool to London to protest as the Thatcher government's policies devastated industrial Britain and sent unemployment skyrocketing. Just before the 2016 EU referendum, Mike set off to walk the same route in a quest to better understand his dad and his country. As he walked, Mike found many echoes of the early eighties: a working class overlooked and ignored by Westminster politicans; communities hollowed out but fiercely resistant; anger and despair co-existing with hope and determination for change. And he also found that he and Pete shared more in common than he might have thought. All Together Now? maps the intricate, overlapping path of one man's journey and that of an entire country. It is a book about belonging, about whether to stay or go, and about the need to write new stories for our communities and ourselves.

MIKE CARTER is a freelance travel writer. His previous book, One Man and His Bike, followed what happened when his cycle ride to work one morning turned into a 5,000-mile cycle ride around the coastline of Britain. In 2008 Uneasy Rider, the chronicle of his motorbike ride of over 20,000 miles to the four extremes of Europe, won the Oldie Travel Book of the Year. @getcarter7

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A searing critique of how 40 years of neoliberalism has ruined the lives of ordinary people . . . Carter is a lovely writer, with an engaging, lyrical style; his tone is sympathetic but rarely sentimental, and the chapters are evenly spaced out along the route . . . this important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book should be read by every politician in Westminster. The English patient is on the brink.

Beautifully written, compassionate and urgent.

An engaging blend of walking and talking . . . backed up by extensive reading and research.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.2.2019
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Europa
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Austerity • brexit austerity eu referendum european union uk politics conservatives conservatism tories tory party • christopher somerville the salt path the walker's guide raynor winn tristan gooley robert macfarlane the old ways countryfile alfred wainwright lake district walking books • one man and his bike uneasy rider the road to wigan pier as i walked out one midsummer morning laurie lee you are awful but i like you tim moore the establishment chavs owen jones • Owen Jones • people's march for jobs • Raynor Winn • Referendum • theresa may amber rudd boris johnson nigel farage ukip leave.eu vote leave arron banks cambridge analytica • the salt path • trade unions tuc trade unionist strikes activism miners strike disenchantment working-class communities gambling betting payday loans • Travel writing • travel writing walking hiking people's march for jobs jarrow unemployment homelessness housing crisis welfare system benefits universal basic income
• ISBN-10: 1-78335-158-6 / 1783351586
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78335-158-9 / 9781783351589