Title Getting the measure of poverty : the early legacy of Seebohm Rowntree / edited by Jonathan Bradshaw and Roy Sainsbury

Published Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2000] ©2000

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Description xiv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Series Studies in cash & care Cash & care. Contents 1. Editor's Introduction / Jonathan Bradshaw and Roy Sainsbury -- 2. Seebohm Rowntree's Poverty: A Study of Town Life in Historical Perspective / Lord Asa Briggs -- 3. Poverty and its Early Critics: The Search for a Value-free Definition of the Problem / Graham Bowpitt -- 4. Unfinished Business: Seebohm Rowntree's Project for British Minimum Income Standards / John Veit-Wilson -- 5. Seebohm Rowntree and the Measurement of Poverty, 1899-1951 / Bernard Harris -- 6. Rowntree, Poverty Lines and School Boards / Alan Gillie -- 7. Rowntree's 'Life Cycle of Poverty' in Interwar London / Timothy J. Hatton and Roy E. Bailey -- 8. Mapping the Poor in Late-Victorian London: A Multi-Scale Approach / Ifan D. H. Shepherd -- 9. Contrasting Studies in Poverty and Philanthropy 1900-1939: B. Seebohm Rowntree and William R. Sutton / Patricia L. Garside -- 10. Poverty and Family Cohesion / Harriet Ward 11. 'Poverty in Ireland: Pre-occupations and Policies Over Half a Century' / Seamus O. Cinneide -- 12. Investigating Rural Poverty 1870-1914: Problems of Conceptualisation and Methodology / Mark Freeman Notes Contains papers presented at a conference by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation at the University of York in March 1998, marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntree's Poverty: a study of town life Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Rowntree, B. Seebohm (Benjamin Seebohm), 1871-1954 -- Congresses. Poverty -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses. Poverty -- Research -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. Author Bradshaw, Jonathan. Sainsbury, Roy. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. LC no. 00131707 ISBN 0754612899

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