Breadline Britain in the 1990sDave Gordon, Christina Pantazis Ashgate, 1997 - 309 páginas Exploring the issue of poverty in 1990s Britain, this volume explores the trends in government policy towards labour markets, full employment and social security since the 1940s. It examines the view of the right that poverty does not exist in 1990s Britain, but is confined to the Third World and also looks at the traditional views of the Labour Party in alleviating poverty. |
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methodology and international | 49 |
The publics perception of necessities and poverty | 71 |
Poverty and gender | 97 |
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1990 Breadline Britain adults afford analysis average Bramley Breadline Britain survey British Crime Survey CHAID child compared consensual consumption countries Couple decile definition of poverty depressed deprivation group deprivation index disability Domino Films employment Equivalence Scales equivalised expenditure factors fear of crime Figure fuel debts gender health inequalities history of poverty HMSO household income household type Income Support Joseph Rowntree Foundation lack of money less deprived level of poverty live in need living in poverty living standards London lone parents long-standing illness low income Mack and Lansley meals Meals on wheels Mean deprivation score measurement of poverty minimum multiply deprived pensioners Percent Perception of necessities poorest population poverty line poverty threshold problems proportion questions rates relationship relative Report respondents shows significant social class society standard of living statistically Table television Townsend Umeå usage victimisation women World Bank