Esther Dermott & Gill Main 
Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK [EPUB ebook] 
Volume 1 – The Nature and Extent of the Problem

Introduction: Poverty and social exclusion in the UK ~ Esther Dermott;

Measuring poverty in the UK ~ David Gordon;

The impoverishment of youth: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion among young adults in the UK ~ Eldin Fahmy;

Improvement for some: poverty and social exclusion among older people and pensioners ~ Demi Patsios;

Which men and women are poor? Gender, poverty and social exclusion ~ Esther Dermott and Christina Pantazis;

Better understandings of ethnic variations: ethnicity, poverty and social exclusion ~ Saffron Karlsen and Christina Pantazis;

Improving lives? Child poverty and social exclusion ~ Gill Main and Jonathan Bradshaw;

The cost of children: parents, poverty, and social support ~ Esther Dermott and Marco Pomati;

A worsening picture: poverty and social exclusion and disabled people ~ Pauline Heslop and Eric Emerson;

Devolution and North/South division: poverty and social exclusion in the countries and regions of the UK ~ Mike Tomlinson;

More similarities than differences: poverty and social exclusion in rural and urban locations~ Nick Bailey and Maria Gannon;

Conclusion: innovating methods, informing policy and challenging stigma ~ Gill Main.

Gill Main is a University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on child and youth poverty and well-being, and especially on incorporating children’s accounts and perspectives into understandings and measures of child poverty. She was involved in exploring child poverty as a member of the Poverty and Social Exclusion 2012 team. She is co-editor of the Policy Press Journal of Poverty and Social Justice.