David Bates is a lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland and Newcastle University. He has worked as constituency caseworker for an MP and as a youth worker in the voluntary sector.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAusterity and 'Benefits Street' in Stockton-on-TeesThe myths on which Benefits Street was based – namely the myth of so-called “workless communities” – are...