Experiencing Poverty

Jonathan Bradshaw, Roy Sainsbury

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781138717473
• eBook ISBN: 9781351766678
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This title was first published in 2000:  Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntree's first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern impact of poverty on health, nutrition, crime, gender and ethnicity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Editors' Introduction
• 2 Defining Poverty and Identifying the Poor: Reflections on the Australian Experience
• 3 The Dangers of Strong Causal Reasoning: Root Causes, Social Science, and Poverty Policy
• 4 Local Poverty Profiles and Local Anti-Poverty Work
• 5 Relationships Between Health, Income and Poverty Over Time: An Analysis Using BHPS and NCDS Data
• 6 The Commuter's 'Experience' of Poverty: Towards a Post-Industrial Geography of Health
• 7 Examining the Relationship Between Material Conditions, Long-Term Problematic Drug Misuse and Social Exclusion: A New Strategy for Social Inclusion
• 8 Material Deprivation Amongst Ethnic Minority and White Children: The Evidence of the Sample of Anonymised Records
• 9 'Shortchanging' Black and Minority Ethnic Elders
• 10 New Labour, New Poor
• 11 'Spare Some Change for a Bite to Eat?' From Primary Poverty to Social Exclusion: The Role of Nutrition and Food
• 12 Eking Out an Income: Low Income Households and Their Use of Supplementary Resources
• 13 Disabled People, Poverty and Debt: Identity, Strategy and Policy
• 14 Neighbourhood Destabilisation, Youth Crime and the Destabilised School
• 15 'The Invisible Poor': Young People Growing Up in Family Poverty
• 16 The Future of Poverty Research: Panel Session