Books : From transmitted deprivation to social exclusion: Policy, poverty, and parenting
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by: John Welshman
Amazon.com's Price: $99.00 Prices subject to change.
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.874086940941
EAN: 9781861348357
ISBN: 1861348355
Label: Policy Press
Manufacturer: Policy Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: September 13, 2007
Publisher: Policy Press
Sales Rank: 3243601
Studio: Policy Press
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Product Description:
John Welshman' new book fills a major gap in social policy: the history of debates over 'transmitted deprivation', and their relationship with current initiatives on social exclusion. The book explores the content and background to Sir Keith Joseph's famous 'cycle of deprivation' speech in 1972, examining his own personality and family background, his concern with 'problem families', and the wider policy context of the early 1970s. Tracing the direction taken by the DHSS-SSRC Research Programme on Transmitted Deprivation, it seeks to understand why the Programme was set up, and why it took the direction it did. With this background, the book explores New Labour's approach to child poverty, initiatives such as Sure Start, the influence of research on inter-generational continuities, and its new stance on social exclusion. The author argues that, while earlier writers have acknowledged the intellectual debt that New Labour owes to Joseph, and noted similarities between current policy approaches to child poverty and earlier debates, the Government's most recent attempts to tackle social exclusion mean that these continuities are now more striking than ever before.
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