Understanding Social Exclusion [Paperback]

This book explores the issue of social exclusion. It asks three main questions: How can social exclusion be measured? What are its main determinants or influences? And what policies can reduce social exclusion? The authors aim to consider how a focus on social exclusion may alter the policy questions that are most relevant by fostering debate in government, research, and academic circles.

1. Introduction,Tania Burchardt, Julian Le Grand and David Piachaud
2. Social exclusion, social isolation and the distribution of income,Brian Barry
3. Degrees of exclusion: Developing a dynamic, multi-dimensional measure,Tania Burchardt, Julian Le Grand and David Piachaud
4. The dynamics of poverty in Britain,Simon Burgess and Carol Propper
5. Social exclusion and the generations,John Hobcraft
6. Disadvantage and Demography---chicken and egg?,Kathleen Kiernan
7. Low paid work: Drip feeding the poor,Abigail McKnight
8. Social exclusion and neighbourhoods,Ruth Lupton and Anne Power
9. Child poverty,David Piachaud and Holly Sutherland
10. Response and prevention in the British welfare state,Phil Agulnik, Tania Burchardt and Martin Evans
11. Preventing social exclusion: Education's contribution,Howard Glennerster and Jo Sparkes
12. Community, neighbourhood and social infrastructure,Liz Richardson and Katharine Mumford
13. Does a focus on 'social exclusion' change the policy response?,John Hills

John Hillsis Director and Professor of Social Policy at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics.
Julian Le Grandis the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He is Chair of LSE Health and Social Care and a co-director of the Economic and Social Research Council's Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)lS8