Researching Poverty

Jonathan Bradshaw, Roy Sainsbury

Editors’ introduction, Jonathan Bradshaw and Roy Sainsbury; Post-1945 poverty research and things to come, Peter Townsend; The scientific urban measurement of poverty: recent theoretical advances, David Gordon; Agreeing poverty lines: the development of consensual budget standards methodology, Sue Middleton; Developing the use of administrative data to study poverty, George Smith and Michael Noble; Analysis of low income using the family resources survey, Liz Tadd; A century of poverty in Britain, 1898-1998: a geographical analysis, Ian Gregory, Humphrey Southall and Daniel Dorling; Urban deprivation and government expenditure: where does spending go?, Glen Bramley and Martin Evans; The geography of misery: area disadvantage and patterns of neighbourhood dissatisfaction in England, Roger Burrows and David Rhodes; From poverty to social exclusion?: the legacy of London overspill in Haverhill, Linda Harvey and David Backwith; Patterns of exclusion in the electronic economy, Jan Pahl and Lou Opit; Poverty studies in Europe and the evolution of the concept of social exclusion, John Washington, Ian Paylor and Jennifer Harris; Where are the poor in the future of poverty research?, Ruth Lister and Peter Beresford (with David Green and Kirsty Woodward).