How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different groups or places?
Based on the largest UK study of its kind ever commissioned, this fascinating book provides the most detailed national picture of these problems. Chapters consider a range of dimensions of disadvantage as well as poverty - access to local services or employment, social relations or civic participation, health and well-being. The book also explores relationships between these in the first truly multi-dimensional analysis of exclusion.
Written by leading academics, this is an authoritative account of welfare outcomes achieved across the UK.
A companion volume Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK: Volume 1 focuses on specific groups such as children or older people, and different geographical areas.
Introduction ~ Nick Bailey and Glen Bramley;
Part 1: Resources;
Fifty years of poverty in the UK ~ Joanna Mack;
Living standards in the UK ~ Demi Patsios, Marco Pomati and Paddy Hillyard;
Severe poverty and destitution ~ Glen Bramley, Suzanne Fitzpatrick and Filip Sosenko;
Poverty, local services and austerity ~ Glen Bramley and Kirsten Besemer;
Part 2: Participation;
Social participation and social support ~ Lisa Wilson, Eldin Fahmy and Nick Bailey;
Employment, poverty and social exclusion ~ Nick Bailey;
Poverty, social exclusion and civic engagement ~ Eldin Fahmy;
Part 3: Quality of life;
Poverty and health: thirty years of progress? ~ Lucy Prior and David Manley;
Housing and the living environment ~ Glen Bramley;
Poverty and social harm: challenging discourses of risk, resilience and choice ~ Simon Pemberton, Christina Pantazis and Paddy Hillyard;
Financial inclusion, financial stress and debt ~ Glen Bramley and Kirsten Besemer;
The poverty of well-being ~ Michael Tomlinson and Lisa Wilson;
Part 4: Bringing it together;
The multidimensional analysis of social exclusion ~ Nick Bailey, Eldin Fahmy and Jonathan Bradshaw;
Conclusions and emerging themes ~ Glen Bramley and Nick Bailey.
