List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Victorian Legacy The Nature and Causes of Poverty, 1900-18 Poverty and Progress, 1920-38 Unemployment and Poverty in Britain Between the Wars 1940s Britain Post-War Poverty, 1950-65 Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index.
'The author handles his material with great precision and care and gives readers a well-argued guide through an historical minefield.' - Contemporary Review '[This book] offers a mass of contemporary statistics on social conditions - such as employment and wages in the labour market, demography, consumer prices and nutrition, drawn from many sources - and reworks the primary material when relevant, to illuminate the issue around material deprivations.' - John Veit-Wilson, Social Policy
IAN GAZELEY is Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Sussex.
'The author handles his material with great precision and care and gives readers a well-argued guide through an historical minefield.' - Contemporary Review '[This book] offers a mass of contemporary statistics on social conditions - such as employment and wages in the labour market, demography, consumer prices and nutrition, drawn from many sources - and reworks the primary material when relevant, to illuminate the issue around material deprivations.' - John Veit-Wilson, Social Policy
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