ABSTRACT
After completing his research in Huddersfield, Dennis Marsden continued interviewing on behalf of the Institute of Community Studies for another two or three years, before moving to the University of Essex in order to help with the pilot studies for a projected national survey of poverty. That survey was fielded in the late 1960s and, after an extensive period of analysis, the results were eventually published in 1979 as Poverty in the United Kingdom. This massive volume of well over a thousand pages was written by Peter Townsend, the principal architect of the poverty project, and is the third distinguished product of postwar British empirical sociology which I have selected for study.
