Poor Britain
By: Joanna Mack and Stewart Lansley ; foreword by A.H. Halsey.
Contributors: Lansley, Stewart.
Publisher: G. Allen & Unwin
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Poor -- Great Britain.; Economic assistance, Domestic -- Great Britain -- Public opinion.; Public welfare -- Great Britain -- Public opinion.; Public opinion -- Great Britain.
Genres: Research
First sentence: For most of the postwar period, poverty has been largely a forgotten problem.
Description: A comprehensive account of poverty in Britain based on a major survey by MORI and the experiences of the poor themselves, originally researched for the LWT television series Breadline Britain. The authors develop a new and original measure of poverty – the consenual approach – which has since become a standard for objective measurement of poverty in different societies.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [315]-318.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: List of figures
pagenum: xiii; title: List of tables
pagenum: xv; title: Preface & acknowledgments
pagenum: xix; title: Foreword by Professor AH Halsey
pagenum: xxiii; label: Introduction; label: 1
title: Going Down; title: The growing ranks of the poor
pagenum: 3; title: The growth of ‘poverty’
pagenum: 4; title: The debate about ‘poverty’
pagenum: 7; title: The Breadline Britain survey
pagenum: 9; title: Poor Britain
pagenum: 11; label: I
title: Poverty in Britain in the 1980s; label: 2
title: How Poor is too Poor?; title: Defining poverty
pagenum: 15; title: The search for an ‘absolute’ poverty line
pagenum: 16; title: The use of relative health standards to define poverty
pagenum: 21; title: Viewing necessities as socially determined
pagenum: 26; title: Can poverty be measured objectively?
pagenum: 29; title: The Townsend poverty study
pagenum: 31; title: A new approach to poverty
pagenum: 37; title: Defining poverty in terms of a consenual view of need
pagenum: 45; label: 3
title: To live or to exist?; title: The survey’s findings on today’s necessities
pagenum: 49; title: The survey’s design
pagenum: 49; title: The public’s perception of necessities
pagenum: 53; title: The homogeneity of views throughout society
pagenum: 59; title: Necessities and norms of behaviour
pagenum: 65; title: The influences on people’s perceptions of necessities
pagenum: 69; title: The role of moral judgements
pagenum: 78; title: A culturally specific view of poverty
pagenum: 83; title: A minimum standard of living for Britain in the 1980s
pagenum: 86; label: 4
title: The other Britain; title: The extent of deprivation
pagenum: 87; title: The lack of socially perceived necessities
pagenum: 88; title: The income measure
pagenum: 91; title: Controlling for taste
pagenum: 92; title: An enforced lack of necessities
pagenum: 99; title: Levels of deprivation
pagenum: 105; title: A wider view of the extent of deprivation
pagenum: 113; title: The question of ‘fecklessness’
pagenum: 117; title: Other influences on living standards
pagenum: 127; title: The extent of deprivation
pagenum: 132; label: 5
title: Just existing; title: The impact of deprivation
pagenum: 134; title: Living in a rubbish dump
pagenum: 137; title: Going to bed to keep warm
pagenum: 143; title: Eggs, eggs and more eggs
pagenum: 146; title: Living in other people’s cast-offs
pagenum: 149; title: Furnishing the home from the rubbish tip
pagenum: 150; title: Santa is dead
pagenum: 152; title: A lonely living
pagenum: 154; title: Yet more problems
pagenum: 156; title: Failing to make ends meet
pagenum: 157; title: Feelings of despair
pagenum: 162; title: Feeling poor
pagenum: 167; title: Just existing
pagenum: 169; label: 6
title: Measuring poverty; title: The implications of the findings on deprivation
pagenum: 171; title: The principles underlying the measurement of poverty
pagenum: 172; title: An enforced lack of necessities
pagenum: 175; title: The effects of deprivation
pagenum: 178; title: The extent of poverty
pagenum: 181; title: The people in poverty
pagenum: 185; title: The problems in estimating an adequate income level
pagenum: 190; title: The measurement of an ‘income threshold’
pagenum: 191; title: The impact of rasing the minimum income level
pagenum: 194; title: The implications of the findings for policy
pagenum: 196; title: Poverty in the 1980s
pagenum: 199; label: II
title: Attitudes to anti-poverty measures; label: 7
title: The will to act?; title: Public attitudes to the poor and to equality
pagenum: 203; title: The persistence of poverty
pagenum: 203; title: Attitudes to the causes of poverty
pagenum: 205; title: The deserving and undeserving poor
pagenum: 209; title: The waning of the welfare backlash
pagenum: 213; title: Attitudes to redistribution
pagenum: 221; title: The New Right’s commitment to inequality
pagenum: 225; title: The failure of the Labour party
pagenum: 228; title: The will to act – in principle
pagenum: 231; label: 8
title: The collapse of welfarism; title: Shifts in policies for the poor
pagenum: 232; title: The foundation of the welfare state
pagenum: 233; title: The impact of the welfare years
pagenum: 235; title: The growing crisis for welfare spending
pagenum: 239; title: Welfare under Thatcherism
pagenum: 241; title: The current direction of government policies
pagenum: 243; title: The road from welfare
pagenum: 247; label: 9
title: The defence of welfarism; title: Public attitudes to welfare spending
pagenum: 248; title: Attitudes ot welfare spending in the latter half of the 1970s
pagenum: 248; title: Current attitudes to welfare spending
pagenum: 253; title: Attitudes to spending on the poor
pagenum: 257; title: Attitudes t0 social security benefits
pagenum: 263; title: The low-paid
pagenum: 269; title: The growing support for welfarism
pagenum: 271; title: Conclusions; label: 10
title: The future; title: What hope for the poor?
pagenum: 275; title: The public’s definition of unacceptable living standards
pagenum: 276; title: The public’s support for policies to help the poor
pagenum: 278; title: The future
pagenum: 282; label: Appendix A
title: The likely accuracy of the findings
pagenum: 287; label: Appendix B
title: The questionnaire
pagenum: 291; label: Appendix C
title: Income: concepts and problems
pagenum: 308; label: References
pagenum: 315; label: Index
pagenum: 319