Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: The Meaning and Measurement of Poverty
3: Income Poverty
4: Measuring Deprivation
5: Income, Resources, and Deprivation
6: Income, Deprivation, and Poverty
7: Class, Underclass, and Poverty
8: Implications for Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty
9. Implications for Tackling Poverty:
10: Conclusions
Appendices
References
Index

Reviews

`Readers of this journal will be all too familiar with the questions which have bedevilled research on poverty ... This authoritative study makes a significant contribution to these and related questions ... This book should make a significant contribution to the analysis of poverty and social inequality. It offers a rigorous, ingenious and original contribution to some of the most stubborn methodological problems in recent poverty research ... For the
'professionals' in the poverty research business ... the book is, quite simply, essential reading.'
Social Policy, vol.26/2, 1997