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Contents
Preface | 17 |
Acknowledgements | 25 |
1 | 31 |
2 | 61 |
Methods of Research | 93 |
Inequality and Poverty 193868 | 116 |
The Concept and Distribution of Resources | 177 |
Three Measures of Poverty | 237 |
15 | 543 |
16 | 565 |
The Unemployed and the Subemployed | 588 |
18 | 618 |
19 | 652 |
20 | 685 |
Handicapped Children | 740 |
OneParent Families | 753 |
The Incidence of Poverty | 272 |
The Impact of Poverty | 304 |
Social Class and Styles of Living | 369 |
Selfrated Class and Economic Circumstances | 377 |
Occupational Class and Economic Circumstances | 385 |
Occupational Class and Poverty | 394 |
Social Mobility | 400 |
Summary and Conclusion | 411 |
Deprivation at Work | 432 |
Deprivation and Occupational Class | 443 |
Security of Work | 452 |
Deprivation in Housing | 476 |
Deprivation of Environment | 529 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Poverty in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living |
| Author | Peter Townsend |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0520039769, 9780520039766 |
| Length | 1216 pages |
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