Author : John Welshman
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781861348357
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (483 download)
Book Synopsis From Transmitted Deprivation to Social Exclusion by : John Welshman
Download or read book From Transmitted Deprivation to Social Exclusion written by John Welshman and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a major gap in social policy literature, this book looks at the history of debates over the poverty cycle and their relationship with current initiatives on social exclusion. The book uses Sir Keith Joseph's famous "cycle of deprivation" speech in 1972 as a backdrop to explore British New Labour's approach to child poverty: initiatives such as Sure Start, the influence of research on intergenerational continuities, and its new stance on social exclusion. Making extensive use of archival sources, private papers, contemporary published documents, and oral interviews with retired civil servants and social scientists, John Welshman provides the only booklength treatment of this important but neglected strand of social policy history.