Poverty in Britain, 1900–1965

Gazeley, Ian

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“…44 Social class remained an important differential in living standards. The professionals included in the 1963 Woolton subsample owned their houses or had small mortgages.…”

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“…45 That class retained its salience as a measurement of socio-economic inequality is supported by national data on nutrition and luxury consumption, which indicate that although class differentials fell during the Second World War, they remained significant and began to grow once more in the 1950s. 46 Living standards are not simply defined by earnings and expenditure. Studies of the earlier twentieth century point out that there was no guarantee that wages would find their way into the household budget.…”

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“…This challenges the current orthodoxy that shapes the historiography: 'austerity' followed by 'affluence' disrupted by the 'rediscovery of poverty' by Abel-Smith and Townsend in the mid-1960s. 6 The final section of the article argues that class remained important as a social relationship in ways that the sociologists did not recognise. The researchers were keen to discover how material conditions shaped people's lives and identities.…”

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Affluence, Class and Crown Street: Reinvestigating the Post-War Working Class

Todd¹

2008

Contemporary British History

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This paper revisits sociological studies of Liverpool between 1956 and 1964 to challenge the prevailing emphasis on affluence in histories of post-war Britain. Vulnerability to poverty continued to shape working-class life, and the sociologists and their respondents drew on class to account for this. However, while the researchers used class as a social description, their respondents suggested that class was a dynamic social relationship within which they operated a degree of agency, albeit mediated by gender and locale. Their agency was not only facilitated by the development of a post-war welfare state, rather than by personal affluence, but also relied on older household economic strategies that highlight continuities with the pre-war period.

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“…44 Social class remained an important differential in living standards. The professionals included in the 1963 Woolton subsample owned their houses or had small mortgages.…”

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Todd¹

2008

Contemporary British History

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“…In his evaluation, Rowntree assumed that all food was consumed, observing that food in the ‘respectable’ working‐class family was not wasted. Rowntree, like Paton, discovered that many working families had poor diets, but unlike Rowntree, Paton did not attempt to draw a poverty line as Gazeley (2003) observes. Clearly a number of research strands come together in Rowntree's work.…”

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The Historical Development of Family Budget Standards in Britain, from the 17th Century to the Present

Deeming¹

2010

Soc Policy Adm

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This article reviews the British tradition of research into household budget standards and describes a rich history of theoretical and methodological innovation in the social sciences. The origins of this enterprise lie in hypothetical family budget calculations made by political arithmeticians investigating living standards in the 1600s. Systematic budget inquiries emerge in England in the 1790sand by the end of the 19th century, normative standards are applied to determine lines of poverty across sections of British society. The first 'scientific' study to do this was conducted in England in 1912, local budget surveys flourish here until after the Second World War; by which time poverty researchers were abandoning them, turning instead to the data which was becoming available from national government surveys of family income and expenditure. Towards the close of the century, however, we see researchers trying to escape some of the circularity posed by family spending, which is, after all, constrained by household income. New and competing methods for determining household budget standards emerge before a groundbreaking inquiry attempts to establish a consensus in the field of minimum income standards research.

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“…In the case of recent British economic history we have very important quantitative work on poverty and on income distribution, but these have not become integrated into the dominant quantitative narrative. 16 More broadly, the historical linking of income and wealth distribution to questions of corporate and political power has been lost to the mainstream of economic and social history, a process added to by the decline of Marxism as a significant contribution to the area.…”

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A new political arithmetic?

Tomlinson¹

2015

Social History

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Poverty in Britain, 1900–1965

Cited by 51 publications

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Affluence, Class and Crown Street: Reinvestigating the Post-War Working Class

Affluence, Class and Crown Street: Reinvestigating the Post-War Working Class

The Historical Development of Family Budget Standards in Britain, from the 17th Century to the Present

A new political arithmetic?

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