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Book SynopsisThis text provides insights into the nature and extent of poverty and social exclusion in the UK today for different social groups: older and younger people; parents and children; ethnic groups; men and women; disabled people; and across regions through the recent period of austerity.
Trade Review“Comprehensive, shocking and revealing. How the UK declined and poverty rose as economic inequality spread across the land." Danny Dorling, University of Oxford
"The PSE survey has made a unique contribution to our understanding of deprivation in modern Britain. This book presents a valuable tableau of its findings." Donald Hirsch, Loughborough University
"Presents up-to-date and rigorous analysis of poverty in the UK. This is compelling evidence for urgent policy attention." Jane Millar University of Bath
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Poverty and social exclusion in the UK ~ Esther Dermott; Measuring poverty in the UK ~ David Gordon; The impoverishment of youth: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion among young adults in the UK ~ Eldin Fahmy; Improvement for some: poverty and social exclusion among older people and pensioners ~ Demi Patsios; Which men and women are poor? Gender, poverty and social exclusion ~ Esther Dermott and Christina Pantazis; Better understandings of ethnic variations: ethnicity, poverty and social exclusion ~ Saffron Karlsen and Christina Pantazis; Improving lives? Child poverty and social exclusion ~ Gill Main and Jonathan Bradshaw; The cost of children: parents, poverty, and social support ~ Esther Dermott and Marco Pomati; A worsening picture: poverty and social exclusion and disabled people ~ Pauline Heslop and Eric Emerson; Devolution and North/South division: poverty and social exclusion in the countries and regions of the UK ~ Mike Tomlinson; More similarities than differences: poverty and social exclusion in rural and urban locations~ Nick Bailey and Maria Gannon; Conclusion: innovating methods, informing policy and challenging stigma ~ Gill Main.
