From Transmitted Deprivation to Social Exclusion
Policy, Poverty, and Parenting
Distributed for Policy Press at the University of Bristol
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.
“Welshman’s book is a fascinating account of a hitherto largely neglected topic, and the author is to be commended for the breadth of his investigation and the relevance of the lessons he draws from it from today.”
Abbreviations
Timeline: from transmitted deprivation to social exclusion
Introduction
Part One: The cycle hypothesis
1. Sir Keith Joseph and the cycle speech
2. From problem families to the cycle of deprivation
Part Two: The Transmitted Deprivation Research Programme
3. Conceptual difficulties: setting up the Research Programme
4. From a cycle of deprivation to cycles of disadvantage
5. The final years of the Research Programme
6. Poverty, structure, and behaviour: three social scientists
Part Three: New Labour and the cycle of deprivation
7. The broader context: social exclusion, poverty dynamics, and the revival of agency
8. From transmitted deprivation to social exclusion
Conclusion
References
Index
Sociology: Individual, State and Society
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