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Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005

Dorling, Daniel, Rigby, Jan, Wheeler, Ben, Ballas, Dimitris, Thomas, Bethan, Fahmy, Eldin, Gordon, David and Lupton, Ruth (2007) Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005. The Policy Press for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781861349958

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Abstract

This is the first detailed study of the recent geographical distribution of poverty and wealth in Britain. It presents the most comprehensive estimates of the changing levels of poverty and wealth from the late 1960s. A wide range of secondary data is used, beginning with the first national Poverty in the UK survey of Peter Townsend and colleagues, and ending with data released during the middle of the current decade. The authors extend concepts of social exclusion to establish 5 household groupings: the 'exclusive wealthy' - able to exclude themselves from the norms of society; those who are rich but not exclusively so; those who are neither rich nor poor; the 'breadline poor'; and the 'core poor' - who experience a combination of severe income poverty, material deprivation and subjective poverty. Poverty and wealth statistics are mapped in detail to explore geographical patterns over the last four decades, and analysed to determine whether poverty and wealth have become more or less polarised.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: http://www.policypress.co.uk/
Additional Information: © 2007 University of Sheffield
Divisions: STICERD
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Date Deposited: 16 Mar 2010 11:28
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 21:44
Funders: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/27423

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