Experiencing poverty / edited by Jonathan Bradshaw and Roy Sainsbury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sainsbury, Roy.

Bradshaw, Jonathan.

Series:

Studies in cash & care

Studies in cash and care

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Great Britain--Congresses.

Poverty.

Poverty--Research--Great Britain--Congresses.

Poverty--Government policy--Great Britain--Congresses.

Poverty--Government policy.

Poverty--Research.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 297 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington : Ashgate, 2000.

Contents:

2 Defining Poverty and Identifying the Poor: Reflections on the Australian Experience / Peter Saunders 5

3 The Dangers of Strong Causal Reasoning: Root Causes, Social Science, and Poverty Policy / Martin Rein, Christopher Winship 26

4 Local Poverty Profiles and Local Anti-Poverty Work / Peter Alcock, Gary Craig 55

5 Relationships Between Health, Income and Poverty Over Time: An Analysis Using BHPS and NCDS Data / Michaela Benzeval, Ken Judge, Paul Johnson, Jayne Taylor 78

6 The Commuter's 'Experience' of Poverty: Towards a Post-Industrial Geography of Health / Marc Chrysanthou 102

7 Examining the Relationship Between Material Conditions, Long-Term Problematic Drug Misuse and Social Exclusion: A New Strategy for Social Inclusion / Julian Buchanan, Lee Young 120

8 Material Deprivation Amongst Ethnic Minority and White Children: The Evidence of the Sample of Anonymised Records / Robert Moore 144

9 'Shortchanging' Black and Minority Ethnic Elders / Margaret Boneham 166

10 New Labour, New Poor / Roy Carr-Hill, Bob Lavers 181

11 'Spare Some Change for a Bite to Eat?' From Primary Poverty to Social Exclusion: The Role of Nutrition and Food / Elizabeth Dowler, Suzi Leather 200

12 Eking Out an Income: Low Income Households and Their Use of Supplementary Resources / Gillian Elam, Jane Ritchie, Alper Hulusi 219

13 Disabled People, Poverty and Debt: Identity, Strategy and Policy / Linda Grant 232

14 Neighbourhood Destabilisation, Youth Crime and the Destabilised School / John M. Pitts 251

15 'The Invisible Poor': Young People Growing Up in Family Poverty / Debi Roker, John Coleman 268

16 The Future of Poverty Research: Panel Session / John Hills, Jonathan Bradshaw, Ruth Lister, Janet Lewis 289.

Notes:

One of three volumes of proceedings from the conference marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntree's "Poverty: a Study of Town Life" held at the University of York in March 1998.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0754612880

OCLC:

43580879