Poverty: the Forgotten EnglishmenMonograph on the problem of poverty in the UK, with particular reference to urban area slum housing - surveys the work of welfare and social services and their failure to alleviate or remove poverty, covers sociological aspects of neighbourhood and slum life, low wages and standard of living, unemployment, living conditions, health, nutrition, educational needs, etc., and stresses the need for adequate social policy. References and statistical tables. |
Contents
Foreword | 7 |
Poverty is Back Among Us | 9 |
The Rediscovery of Poverty | 13 |
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