[PDF] Breadline Britain In The 1990s eBook

Author : Dave Gordon
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Exploring the issue of poverty in 1990s Britain, this volume explores the trends in government policy towards labour markets, full employment and social security since the 1940s. It examines the view of the right that poverty does not exist in 1990s Britain, but is confined to the Third World and also looks at the traditional views of the Labour Party in alleviating poverty.

Author : David Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429862911

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First published in 1997, this series, published in association with the Social Policy Research Unity at the University of York, is designed to inform public debate about these policy areas and to make the details of important policy-related research more widely available.

Author : Stewart Lansley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1780745451

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Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs unmet. Based on exclusive access to the largest ever survey of poverty in the UK, and its predecessor surveys in the 1980s and 1990s, Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack track changes in deprivation and paint a devastating picture of the reality of poverty today and its causes. Shattering the myth that poverty is the fault of the poor and a generous benefit system, they show that the blame lies with the massive social and economic upheaval that has shifted power from the workforce to corporations and swelled the ranks of the working poor, a group increasingly at the mercy of low-pay, zero-hour contracts and downward social mobility. The high levels of poverty in the UK are not ordained but can be traced directly to the political choices taken by successive governments. Lansley and Mack outline an alternative economic and social strategy that is both perfectly feasible and urgently necessary if we are to reverse the course of the last three decades.

Author : Pantazis, Christina
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1861343736

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Includes statistical tables and graphs.

Author : Esther Dermott
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1447334272

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How can we measure poverty in the United Kingdom today, and which measures are most reliable? Is poverty related to other problems and disadvantages? Based on the largest research study on UK poverty ever commissioned, these fascinating volumes answer these questions and more, providing the most authoritative and up-to-date picture ever assembled of poverty throughout the four countries of the United Kingdom. Using state-of-the-art measurement methods, Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK looks across geography, time, and key domains like health, employment, and housing to make enlightening--and sometimes shocking--comparisons. In the second volume, contributors consider different aspects of disadvantage, from access to local services, the world of work, the quality of housing and neighborhoods, and physical and mental health. They also look at wider aspects of social and community life, as well as participation in civic and political activities.