Name: Experiencing Poverty
ISBN: 9781315196312

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ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|4 pages

Editors' Introduction

chapter 2|21 pages

Defining Poverty and Identifying the Poor: Reflections on the Australian Experience

chapter 3|29 pages

The Dangers of Strong Causal Reasoning: Root Causes, Social Science, and Poverty Policy

chapter 4|23 pages

Local Poverty Profiles and Local Anti-Poverty Work

chapter 5|24 pages

Relationships Between Health, Income and Poverty Over Time: An Analysis Using BHPS and NCDS Data 1

chapter 6|18 pages

The Commuter's ‘Experience’ of Poverty: Towards a Post-Industrial Geography of Health

chapter 7|24 pages

Examining the Relationship Between Material Conditions, Long-Term Problematic Drug Misuse and Social Exclusion: A New Strategy for Social Inclusion

chapter 8|22 pages

Material Deprivation Amongst Ethnic Minority and White Children: The Evidence of the Sample of Anonymised Records

chapter 9|15 pages

‘Shortchanging’ Black and Minority Ethnic Elders 1

chapter 10|19 pages

New Labour, New Poor

chapter 11|19 pages

‘Spare Some Change for a Bite to Eat?’ From Primary Poverty to Social Exclusion: The Role of Nutrition and Food

chapter 12|13 pages

Eking Out an Income: Low Income Households and Their Use of Supplementary Resources

chapter 13|19 pages

Disabled People, Poverty and Debt: Identity, Strategy and Policy

chapter 14|17 pages

Neighbourhood Destabilisation, Youth Crime and the Destabilised School

chapter 15|21 pages

‘The Invisible Poor’: Young People Growing Up in Family Poverty

chapter 16|9 pages

The Future of Poverty Research: Panel Session

Experiencing Poverty