Poverty and ethnicity in the UK / / Lucinda Platt.
Poverty rates vary dramatically across the UK's ethnic groups - an issue of concern both for poverty-reduction policies and for social justice. This book provides a comprehensive account of these variations and explores the reasons why they occur. Drawing on a wealth of research conducted since...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (0 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Summary
- Introduction
- Concepts and definitions
- Ethnicity and ethnic groups
- Poverty and deprivation
- The facts of poverty
- Poverty and ethnicity: the evidence
- Explaining ethnic differences in poverty
- Income from employment
- Family structure and kinship
- Access to and use of social security benefits
- Implications
- Implications for policy
- Implications for research
- References
- Index