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Poverty in the United Kingdom
A Survey of Househould Resources and Standards of Living
Peter Townsend
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Poverty in the United Kingdom
A Survey of Househould Resources and Standards of Living
Peter Townsend
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents 1
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Concepts of Poverty and Deprivation
- 2 Theories of Poverty
- 3 Methods of Research
- 4 Inequality and Poverty, 1938-68
- 5 The Concept and Distribution of Resources
- 6 Three Measures of Poverty
- 7 The Incidence of Poverty
- 8 The Impact of Poverty
- 9 The Rich
- 1 Social Class and Styles of Living
- 11 Objective and Subjective Deprivation
- 12 Deprivation at Work
- 13 Deprivation in Housing
- 14 Deprivation of Environment
- 15 The Problems of Poor Areas
- 16 Social Minorities
- 17 The Unemployed and the Sub-employed
- 18 The Low Paid
- 19 The Older Worker
- 20 Disabled People and the Long-term Sick
- 21 Handicapped Children
- 22 One-Parent Families
- 23 Old People
- 24 Eligibility for Supplementary Benefit
- 25 The Failure of Means-tested Benefits
- 26 Conclusion I: The Social Distribution of Poverty and Trends in the 1970s
- 27 Conclusion II: The Explanation and Elimination of Poverty
- Appendix One Methods of Sampling
- Appendix Two Representativeness of the Sample
- Appendix Three Eligibility for Supplementary Benefit
- Appendix Four The Value to Families of the Social Services
- Appendix Five Some Definitions
- Appendix Six The Social Grading of Occupations
- Appendix Seven Note on the Adjustment of Sample Findings
- Appendix Eight Additional Tables
- Appendix Nine Commentary on the Survey and the Questionnaire
- Appendix Ten
- Appendix Eleven Statistical Tests
- Appendix Twelve Method of Adjusting Distribution of Assets
- Appendix Thirteen Multiple Deprivation
- List of References
- Index