“Bringing together a wealth of new insights on multi-generational family relationships, the life course, and poverty in place, the authors powerfully demonstrate the analytical potential of secondary analysis of qualitative longitudinal data." (Jane Gray, Professor of Sociology, Maynooth University, Ireland)

"With this fascinating and innovative study of economically-marginalized men, Kahryn Hughes and Anna Tarrant join the growing chorus of sociologists attuned to the damage visited upon families by the 'long arm' of poverty over the life course. They challenge us to forego caricatures of working class men who find 'the hills are growing steeper,' and they offer critical insights into unprecedented social inequality, historic shifts in gendered care and work experiences, and the rise and decline of institutions that have transformed family life (such as housing, pension, and prison). This book is a must-read blend of biography, history, and social structure thatwill engage community-based practitioners, policymakers, academics, and students alike." (Kevin Roy, Professor of Family Science, University of Maryland College Park School of Public Health, USA)

Seeks to make visible men’s experience of poverty and deprivation Draws on personal accounts of vulnerability and precarity in low income families Provides a methodological framework for future research using qualitative secondary analysis

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