From Transmitted Deprivation to Social Exclusion

by Welshman, John

• ISBN13: 9781861348357
• ISBN10: 1861348355
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-13
• Publisher: Policy Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

John Welshman is Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK.

Table of Contents

Timeline: from transmitted deprivation to social exclusion
The cycle hypothesis	p. 23
Sir Keith Joseph and the cycle speech	p. 25
From problem families to the cycle of deprivation	p. 51
The Transmitted Deprivation Research Programme	p. 77
Conceptual difficulties: setting up the Research Programme	p. 79
From a cycle of deprivation to cycles of disadvantage	p. 107
The final years of the Research Programme	p. 139
Poverty, structure, and behaviour: three social scientists	p. 175
New Labour and the cycle of deprivation	p. 205
The broader context: social exclusion, poverty dynamics, and the revival of agency	p. 207
From transmitted deprivation to social exclusion	p. 233
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