This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern impact of poverty on health, nutrition, crime, gender and ethnicity.
Contents: Editors introduction, Jonathan Bradshaw and Roy Sainsbury;
Defining poverty and identifying the poor: reflections on the Australian
experience, Peter Saunders; The dangers of strong causal reasoning: root
causes, social science and poverty policy, Martin Rein and Christopher
Winship; Local poverty profiles and local anti-poverty work, Peter Alcock and
Gary Craig; Relationships between health, income and poverty over time: an
analysis using BHPS and NCDS data, Michaela Benzeval, Ken Judge, Paul Johnson
and Jayne Taylor; The commuters experience of poverty: towards a
post-industrial geography of health, Marc Chrysanthou; Examining the
relationship between material conditions, long-term problematic drug misuse
and social exclusion: a new strategy for social inclusion, Julian Buchanan
and Lee Young; Material deprivation amongst ethnic minority and white
children: the evidence of the sample of anonymised records, Robert Moore;
Shortchanging black and minority ethnic elders, Margaret Boneham; New
Labour, new poor, Roy Carr-Hill and Bob Lavers; Spare some change for a bite
to eat From primary poverty to social exclusion: the role of nutrition and
food, Elizabeth Dowler and Suzi Leather; Eking out an income: low income
households and their use of supplementary resources, Gillian Elam, Jane
Ritchie and Alper Hulusi; Disabled people, poverty and debt: identity,
strategy and policy, Linda Grant; Neighbourhood destabilization, youth crime
and the destabilized school, John M. Pitts; The invisible poor: young people
growing up in family poverty, Debi Roker and John Coleman; The future of
poverty research: panel session, John Hills, Jonathan Bradshaw, Ruth Lister
and Janet Lewis.
Jonathan Bradshaw, Roy Sainsbury
