This book addresses the effects of poverty on multiple interdependencies in kinship, neighbourly and friendship relations. It explores how interpersonal relationships are made, unmade, recuperated or ended by people who are living with poverty in one of England's most deprived neighbourhoods. 

Dr Katherine Smith is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is author of Fairness, Class and Belonging in Contemporary England (2012) and co-editor of Extraordinary Encounters: Authenticity and the Interview (2015).

Introduction: The Workings of Poverty and Dependence on Everyday Life; Chapter One: Talking Money in Harpurhey; Chapter Two: Concealment and Revealment in The Reckoning; Chapter Three: Arguments of Equivalence; Chapter Four: (In)Dependence on the State; Chapter Five: Temporalities of Dependence; Conclusion: The Politics of Concealment and Revealment, and the Limits of Fairness in Everyday Life