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.
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"This excellent book achieves the near impossible task of analysing social exclusion quantitatively, while maintaining the sense of lived experience of poor and excluded individuals and families." Naomi Eisenstadt, Oxford University This reports unique analysis highlights the pressing need for a comprehensive and long-term plan to solve poverty in the UK. Campbell Robb, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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One Fifty years of poverty in the UK |
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Two Living standards in the UK |
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Three Severe poverty and destitution |
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Four Poverty, local services and austerity |
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Five Social participation and social support |
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Six Employment, poverty and social exclusion |
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Seven Poverty, social exclusion and civic engagement |
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Eight Poverty and health: thirty years of progress? |
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Nine Housing and the living environment |
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Ten Poverty and social harm: challenging discourses of risk, resilience and choice |
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Eleven Financial inclusion, financial stress and debt |
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Twelve The poverty of well-being |
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Part 4 Bringing it together |
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Thirteen The multidimensional analysis of social exclusion |
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Fourteen Conclusions and emerging themes |
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Glen Bramley is Professor of Urban Studies based in the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, and Equalities Research at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. His recent research has focused on planning for new housing, housing affordability, social sustainability and aspects of poverty, including destitution, homelessness, access to services and the costs of poverty. He has published several books and numerous journal articles. From 2006 to 2010 he was on the Board of the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit, and from 2010 to 2014 part of the PSE-UK research team.
Nick Bailey is Professor of Urban Studies based in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He has published in the fields of housing and urban policy, as well as in poverty, and has advised national and local government on the analysis of poverty and social exclusion. In addition to his involvement in the PSE-UK research team, he has more recently played a leading role in the development of research using administrative data, through both the Urban Big Data Centre at Glasgow, and the Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland.
