Peter Townsend on Poverty in the UK
This item is included in the following series/curriculum: Classic Collection Series
- Grade Level: Adult
- Subjects: Psychology
- Produced By: VEA Group Pty Ltd
- Year: 2003
- Country: Australia
- Language: English
- Running Time: 25m
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It was widely believed that poverty in Britain had been all but eliminated with the construction of the welfare state and post War affluence. But while politicians were telling people they had never had it so good, social scientists were re-discovering poverty. The most influential of these was Peter Townsend, whose study of poverty in the 1960's and 70's was one of the most detailed ever undertaken in Britain.