Poverty and social exclusion in Britain

"At 480 pages, the book combines wide coverage with full treatment." Journal of Children and Poverty "Constitutes the most authoritative study of poverty and social exclusion (PSE) in the united Kingdom at the start of the twenty-first century." Internation Social Security Review "You get what it says on the tin in this detailed discussion... The researchers use well-established 'consensual' methods... The exploration of social exclusion in the survey is innovative." International Journal of Social Welfare "This important book is likely to become a standard text." Jane Millar, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK

Christina Pantazis is Head of the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice in the School for Policy Studies. David Gordon is Professor of Social Justice and Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research and Ruth Levitas is Professor of Sociology and (from 2006) Head of Department, all at the University of Bristol, UK.

Introduction Dave Gordon, Ruth Levitas and Christina Pantazis; Section One: Principles: The concept and measurement of poverty ~ Dave Gordon; The measurement of absolute and overall poverty ~ Peter Townsend and Christina Pantazis; The necessities of life Christina Pantazis, Dave Gordon and Peter Townsend; The concept and measurement of social exclusion ~ Ruth Levitas; Section Two: Processes: Does work pay? Employment, poverty and social exclusion from social relations ~ Nick Bailey; Debt and financial exclusion ~ Stephen McKay and Sharon Collard; Social exclusion and local services ~ Tania Fisher and Glen Bramley; Crime 'disorder' and insecurity and social exclusion ~ Christina Pantazis; Mental health, poverty and social exclusion ~ Sarah Payne; Section Three: People: Child, poverty and social exclusion ~ Eva Lloyd; Youth, poverty and social exclusion ~ Eldin Fahmy; Gender, poverty and social exclusion Christina Pantazis and Elisabetta Ruspini; Lone mothers, poverty and social exclusion ~ Ruth Levitas, Emma Head and Naomi Finch; Pensioners, poverty and social exclusion ~ Demi Patsios; Conclusion ~ Dave Gordon, Ruth Levitas, Christina Pantazis and Peter Townsend.