Getting the Measure of Poverty
The Early Legacy of Seebohm Rowntree
Published on 2. March 2017
288 pages
978-1-351-93374-2 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of papers with an historical theme, representing a fundamental review of 'A Study of Town Life' and its impact on the study of poverty and on wider empirical research.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
36,56 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-93374-2 (9781351933742)
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Jonathan Bradshaw | Roy Sainsbury
Getting the Measure of Poverty
The Early Legacy of Seebohm Rowntree
Book
10/2000
1st Edition
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€215.41
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Persons
Jonathan Bradshaw, Roy Sainsbury
Content
Contents: Editors' introduction, Jonathan Bradshaw and Roy Sainsbury; Seebohm Rowntree's poverty: A Study of Town Life in historical perspective, Lord Asa Briggs; Poverty and its early critics: the search for a value-free definition of the problem, Graham Bowpitt; Unfinished business: Seebohm Rowntree's project for British Minimum income standards, John Veit-Wilson; Seebohm Rowntree and the measurement of poverty, 1899-1951, Bernard Harris; Rowntree, poverty lines and school boards, Alan Gillie; Rowntree's life cycle of poverty? in interwar London, Timothy J. Hatton and Roy E. Bailey; Mapping the poor in late-Victorian London: a multi-scale approach, Ifan D.H. Shepherd; Contrasting studies in poverty and philanthropy 1900-1939: B. Seebohm Rowntree and William R. Sutton, Patricia L. Garside; Poverty and family cohesion, Harriet Ward; Poverty in Ireland?: pre-occupations and policies over half a century, Seamus A" Cinneide; Investigating rural poverty 1870-1914: problems of conceptualization and methodology, Mark Freeman.
