John Welshman
Biographic Data
| ID | 282472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Welshman |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Welshman |
| SIGNATURE | WELSHMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6028-7312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Troubles and the Family: Changes and Continuities Since 1943
This article explores continuities and changes in relation to the problem and troubled families’ initiatives across three areas: the ways in which families have been defined and described; the nature of the interventions; and the criteria for ‘success’. First, while the criteria for identifying troubled families seem initially more explicit than those for problem families, data on the families indicate important continuities. Second, although bot…
The Children's War: Britain, 1914–1918
‘The Children's War’ has been the title of previous books on the Second World War by Ruth Inglis (1990) and Juliet Gardiner (2005), and of an Imperial War Museum exhibition. Clearly there has been
Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England
Pat Thane & Tanya Evans, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012 vii+223 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-957850-4 (hbk) (£60.00) In this engaging book, Pat Thane and Tanya Evans set out to portray both the real li
Helen Bynum, Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis
Conceiving, researching and writing a trade book is not as easy as it might appear. Such a book (usually) needs to be a narrative; to have most of the historiography taken out; to use footnotes sparingly, if at all; to bring the biographies of individual characters to the forefront; and to make good use of illustrations. Essentially, much of it involves unlearning a lot of what we are taught as apprentice professional historians. But with the emp…
You Can Help Your Country: English Children’s Work During the Second World War
You Can Help Your Country: English Children’s Work During the Second World War By Mayall Berry, Morrow Virginia , London : University of London, Institute of Education , 2011 ISBN 9780854738892 , 311 pp., £25.99 (pb ) In this book, Berry Mayall and Virginia Morrow explore how children and young people contributed to the war effort in England during the Second World War. Arguing that the discourse of the period has been dominated by the evacuation…
Alysa Levene, Martin Powell, John Stewart and Becky Taylor, Cradle to Grave: Municipal Medicine in Interwar England and Wales
Journal Article Alysa Levene, Martin Powell, John Stewart and Becky Taylor, Cradle to Grave: Municipal Medicine in Interwar England and Wales Get access Alysa Levene, Martin Powell, John Stewart and Becky Taylor, Cradle to Grave: Municipal Medicine in Interwar England and Wales, Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2011. Pp. xii + 258. £35. ISBN 978 3 03910 904 3. John Welshman John Welshman Lancaster University [email protected] Search for other works …
A companion to life course studies: The social and historical context of the British birth cohort studies - Edited by Michael Wadsworth and John Bynner
Managing the body: Beauty, health and fitness in Britain, 1880-1939 - By Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
Lucy Faithfull: Mother to Hundreds
Time, Money and Social Science: The British Birth Cohort Surveys of 1946 and 1958
Important claims have been made for what has been termed the dynamic analysis of poverty. However, apart from references to Rowntree's mention of the life cycle in his 1901 survey, the earlier history of these approaches has been neglected. This article seeks to document the historical origins of the two main UK birth cohort surveys—the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) and the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS). It …
From Head Start to Sure Start: Reflections on Policy Transfer
This article uses the history of debates over the US Head Start programme (1965), Early Head Start (1994) and the UK Sure Start initiative (1998), as a window on to policy transfer. In all the three, the aim was that early intervention could offer a means of boosting children’s educational attainment and of countering the wider effects of poverty on development. Nevertheless, there were also important differences between them. The first part of t…
Where Lesser Angels Might Have Feared to Tread: The Social Science Research Council and Transmitted Deprivation
The histories of the relationship between government policy and the direction of social science research, and of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), have begun to attract attention in recent years. In this work, the SSRC's research programme on transmitted deprivation (1974–82) has generally had a minor role. Most often, it has been argued that it was the disappointment of Sir Keith Joseph w…
The Cycle of Deprivation: Myths and Misconceptions
The year 2006 marked the 30th anniversary of the publication of Michael Rutter and Nicola Madge's Cycles of Disadvantage (1976). As such, it provides an opportunity to take stock of debates over an alleged cycle of deprivation, both in the 1970s, and more recently. This article seeks to use historical methods in order to outline some areas in which a historical perspective can add significantly to existing knowledge on this topic of enduring inte…
Recuperation, Rehabilitation and the Residential Option: The Brentwood Centre for Mothers and Children
The place of anti-social behaviour in government policy in the United Kingdom is attracting increasing attention. Particularly interesting are residential projects aiming to rehabilitate 'problem families'. Nevertheless, to date, attempts to view these initiatives in historical perspective have been limited. This article reconstructs the history of one such institution, the Brentwood Recuperation Centre for Mothers and Children, within the broade…
From Transmitted Deprivation to Social Exclusion: Policy, Poverty and Parenting
This book explores the history of debates over 'transmitted deprivation' and their relationship with current initiatives on social exclusion. Acknowledging the intellectual debt that New Labour owes to Sir Keith Joseph, the author highlights striking similarities between the Government's attempts to tackle social exclusion and earlier debates.
From transmitted deprivation to social exclusion
This chapter focuses on the way that New Labour has chosen to tackle social exclusion and child poverty from its election in May 1997, relating this to CASE research and to work on poverty dynamics, and looking in particular at the Sure Start initiative. It argues that these, along with the focus on transmission mechanisms and intergenerational continuities, point to marked continuities with the 1970s debate over transmitted deprivation. It also …
From transmitted deprivation to social exclusionPolicy, poverty, and parenting
This book fills a major gap in social policy: the history of debates over ‘transmitted deprivation’, and their relationship with current initiatives on social exclusion. The book explores the content and background to Sir Keith Joseph's famous ‘cycle of deprivation’ speech in 1972 examining his own personality and family background, his concern with ‘problem families’, and the wider policy context of the early 1970s. Tracing the direction taken b…
From transmitted deprivation to social exclusion: Policy, poverty, and parenting
Knights, knaves, pawns and queens: Attitudes to behaviour in postwar Britain
The choice agenda is currently one of the most prominent in public policy. One of its main architects, Julian Le Grand, has used the metaphors of knights, knaves, pawns and queens to characterise changing attitudes to questions of motivation and behaviour among public servants and service users. He has said, for example, that, in the immediate postwar period, public servants were perceived as public-spirited altruists (or knights), whereas servic…
From transmitted deprivation to social exclusion: Policy, poverty, and parenting
The Evacuation of Children in Wartime Scotland: Culture, Behaviour and Poverty
This article examines the experience of, outcomes of, and lessons drawn from the evacuation of Scottish schoolchildren during the early part of the Second World War. We begin by discussing the historiography of evacuation in Great Britain. The focus then shifts to the particular circumstances of Scotland. Here the mechanisms of evacuation were different from elsewhere in Britain in that children were evacuated in family rather than school class g…
Compulsion, Localism, and Pragmatism: The Micro-Politics of Tuberculosis Screening in the United Kingdom, 1950–1965
The modern history of the regulation of entry of non-citizens, the emergence of the nation-state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the history of public health, are all receiving increasing historical attention. This article explores the micro-politics of the tuberculosis screening debate in Britain between 1950 and 1965. It focuses on a key question. Given the pressure to adopt a policy of compulsory chest X-rays at ports of entry, …
Tuberculosis, migration, and medical examination: Lessons from history
The health screening of migrants, asylum seekers, and other entrants to the UK is currently high on the political and public health agenda. Two features of this debate are worth highlighting—the focus on single diseases such as tuberculosis, and the emphasis on the experience of Australia. In February 2005, the government announced proposals to implement existing powers by screening visa applicants for tuberculosis on "high risk" routes, and requ…
From the Cycle of Deprivation to Social Exclusion: Five Continues
One important aspect of Tony Blair's speech on social exclusion, given to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in York on 5 September 2006, has been ignored‐that its content was prefigured by Sir Keith Joseph, in his famous ‘cycle of deprivation’ speech, on 29 June 1972. This article seeks to explore these continuities over the past thirty‐four years, tracing similarities and differences between the two speeches. Moreover, it also reflects on the earli…
The concept of the unemployable
Current government policy documents have been concerned with reforming welfare policy, with matching rights with responsibilities, and especially with reducing the numbers of incapacity benefit claimants. This article places these debates in historical perspective, and revises the existing historiography on poverty and unemployment, by exploring the concept of the 'unemployable' in the period 1880-1940. Up to 1914, unemployability embraced those …
In Search of the 'Problem Family: Public Health and Social Work in England and Wales 1940-70
Recent attempts to explain the decline of public health in England and Wales after 1948 have suggested that services had developed steadily but haphazardly in the interwar period, and that the lack of an underlying philosophy left Medical Officers of Health and their empires vulnerable to a range of forces that included the decline of infectious disease, the rise of hospital medicine, the growth of general practice, and the increasing professiona…
Ideology, Social Science, and Public Policy: The Debate over Transmitted Deprivation
In June 1972, Sir Keith Joseph, then Secretary of State for Social Services, referred in a speech to a ‘cycle of deprivation’, and a large-scale Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS)–Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Research Programme on Transmitted Deprivation was established. Earlier work has explored the cycle speech and Research Programme with regard to the history of the concept of the ‘underclass’, the career of Keith Joseph…
Physical culture and sport in schools in England and Wales, 1900–40
(1998). Physical culture and sport in schools in England and Wales, 1900–40. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 54-75
Evacuation and Social Policy During the Second World War: Myth and Reality
Richard Titmuss's classic study of social policy during the Second World War, Problems of Social Policy, published in 1950, has exercised an enormous influence on historical accounts of the period. However, recently his interpretation has fallen out of favour with revisionist historians who have argued that he exaggerated the extent to which the artifical conditions of war provided a permanent basis for the creation of the welfare state in the po…
From the Cycle of Deprivation to Social Exclusion: Five Continues
One important aspect of Tony Blair's speech on social exclusion, given to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in York on 5 September 2006, has been ignored‐that its content was prefigured by Sir Keith Joseph, in his famous ‘cycle of deprivation’ speech, on 29 June 1972. This article seeks to explore these continuities over the past thirty‐four years, tracing similarities and differences between the two speeches. Moreover, it also reflects on the earli…
The Social History of Social Work: The Issue of the 'Problem Family', 1940-70
Recent work has demonstrated that there are important continuities in theories of social pathology, ranging from the ‘residuum’ of the 1890s to the ‘underclass’ of the 1990s. Yet, while concepts about the ‘underclass’ have been marked by important continuities over time, there have also been important changes. This article looks at the ‘problem family’ of the 1950s and uses evolving attitudes as a means of exploring the social history of social w…
Recuperation, Rehabilitation and the Residential Option: The Brentwood Centre for Mothers and Children
The place of anti-social behaviour in government policy in the United Kingdom is attracting increasing attention. Particularly interesting are residential projects aiming to rehabilitate 'problem families'. Nevertheless, to date, attempts to view these initiatives in historical perspective have been limited. This article reconstructs the history of one such institution, the Brentwood Recuperation Centre for Mothers and Children, within the broade…
Compulsion, Localism, and Pragmatism: The Micro-Politics of Tuberculosis Screening in the United Kingdom, 1950–1965
The modern history of the regulation of entry of non-citizens, the emergence of the nation-state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the history of public health, are all receiving increasing historical attention. This article explores the micro-politics of the tuberculosis screening debate in Britain between 1950 and 1965. It focuses on a key question. Given the pressure to adopt a policy of compulsory chest X-rays at ports of entry, …
Tuberculosis and ethnicity in England and Wales, 1950-70
This article seeks to contribute to recent debates about ethnicity and health by exploring the history of migration and tuberculosis in England and Wales between 1950 and 1970. It concludes that the story was more complex than recent writing, with its emphasis on 'port health' concerns, has implied. The fear that tuberculosis was being imported by migrants was certainly a central concern of both early researchers and the medical establishment. Ho…
The Issue of Never-Married Motherhood in Britain, 1920-70
This article examines shifts in attitudes and changes in provision with regard to never-married mothers within three broad chronological periods. The first section considers attitudes towards these mothers in the period 1918-45, when the issue was conceptualized as one of public health and moral welfare. Second, the article examines the period between 1945 and 1970, when the dominant professional view of never-married mothers focused on identifyi…
The concept of the unemployable
Current government policy documents have been concerned with reforming welfare policy, with matching rights with responsibilities, and especially with reducing the numbers of incapacity benefit claimants. This article places these debates in historical perspective, and revises the existing historiography on poverty and unemployment, by exploring the concept of the 'unemployable' in the period 1880-1940. Up to 1914, unemployability embraced those …
The Unknown Titmuss
Recent writing in social policy on the role of agency has made important assumptions about social administration in the post-war period. In particular it is suggested that interpretations of the causes of poverty, and the thinking of Richard Titmuss, were characterised by a 'denial' of agency and almost total emphasis on structural factors. The implications were that this left the Titmuss paradigm vulnerable to more individualistic interpretation…
Evacuation, Hygiene, and Social Policy: The Our Towns Report of 1943
There has recently been much debate about social policy in Britain during the Second World War. This article takes up Jose Harris's suggestion that historians should look not at large-scale forces, but at ‘those minuscule roots of idiosyncratic private culture’. As a way into the complex amalgam that comprised ideas on social policy in the 1940s, we look in particular at the report on the evacuation of schoolchildren entitled Our towns: a close u…
Troubles and the Family: Changes and Continuities Since 1943
This article explores continuities and changes in relation to the problem and troubled families’ initiatives across three areas: the ways in which families have been defined and described; the nature of the interventions; and the criteria for ‘success’. First, while the criteria for identifying troubled families seem initially more explicit than those for problem families, data on the families indicate important continuities. Second, although bot…
Time, Money and Social Science: The British Birth Cohort Surveys of 1946 and 1958
Important claims have been made for what has been termed the dynamic analysis of poverty. However, apart from references to Rowntree's mention of the life cycle in his 1901 survey, the earlier history of these approaches has been neglected. This article seeks to document the historical origins of the two main UK birth cohort surveys—the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) and the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS). It …
Physical Education and the School Medical Service in England and Wales, 1907-1939
Historians who have examined physical education (PE) have rarely related PE to its wider social context. This article considers the development of PE in elementary schools in England and Wales between 1907 and 1939, and locates PE within the wider history of the School Medical Service. From 1907, local authorities appointed specialist staff, acquired playing fields, and sent their teachers on short vacation courses, while at a policy level the Ch…
Knights, knaves, pawns and queens: Attitudes to behaviour in postwar Britain
The choice agenda is currently one of the most prominent in public policy. One of its main architects, Julian Le Grand, has used the metaphors of knights, knaves, pawns and queens to characterise changing attitudes to questions of motivation and behaviour among public servants and service users. He has said, for example, that, in the immediate postwar period, public servants were perceived as public-spirited altruists (or knights), whereas servic…
Tuberculosis, migration, and medical examination: Lessons from history
The health screening of migrants, asylum seekers, and other entrants to the UK is currently high on the political and public health agenda. Two features of this debate are worth highlighting—the focus on single diseases such as tuberculosis, and the emphasis on the experience of Australia. In February 2005, the government announced proposals to implement existing powers by screening visa applicants for tuberculosis on "high risk" routes, and requ…
Boxing and the historians
(1997). Boxing and the historians. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 195-203
The Health of the Schoolchild
The Evacuation of Children in Wartime Scotland: Culture, Behaviour and Poverty
This article examines the experience of, outcomes of, and lessons drawn from the evacuation of Scottish schoolchildren during the early part of the Second World War. We begin by discussing the historiography of evacuation in Great Britain. The focus then shifts to the particular circumstances of Scotland. Here the mechanisms of evacuation were different from elsewhere in Britain in that children were evacuated in family rather than school class g…
The cycle of deprivation and the concept of the underclass
In drawing on the concept of social exclusion, New Labour has been keen to distance itself from the longer-term ‘underclass’ discourse. At the same time, phrases such as ‘cycle of deprivation’ and ‘problem families’ are used with little sense of their earlier history. This article examines Sir Keith Joseph’s theory of the ‘cycle of deprivation’ with regard to the longer-term history of the idea of an underclass. It argues that the cycle of depriv…
Eugenics and public health in Britain, 1900–40: Scenes from provincial life
Historians have attempted to assess the impact of eugenics on public health provision in a number of fields including mental health, birth control, voluntary sterilization and housing. However, most of this work has concentrated on debates at the national level, and we know much less about the ways in which eugenics may have helped shape health services in provincial cities. It has been suggested that Leicester was a city in which eugenicists wer…
Physical Education and the School Medical Service in England and Wales, 1907-1939
Historians who have examined physical education (PE) have rarely related PE to its wider social context. This article considers the development of PE in elementary schools in England and Wales between 1907 and 1939, and locates PE within the wider history of the School Medical Service. From 1907, local authorities appointed specialist staff, acquired playing fields, and sent their teachers on short vacation courses, while at a policy level the Ch…
In Search of the 'Problem Family: Public Health and Social Work in England and Wales 1940-70
Recent attempts to explain the decline of public health in England and Wales after 1948 have suggested that services had developed steadily but haphazardly in the interwar period, and that the lack of an underlying philosophy left Medical Officers of Health and their empires vulnerable to a range of forces that included the decline of infectious disease, the rise of hospital medicine, the growth of general practice, and the increasing professiona…
Eugenics and public health in Britain, 1900–40: Scenes from provincial life
Historians have attempted to assess the impact of eugenics on public health provision in a number of fields including mental health, birth control, voluntary sterilization and housing. However, most of this work has concentrated on debates at the national level, and we know much less about the ways in which eugenics may have helped shape health services in provincial cities. It has been suggested that Leicester was a city in which eugenicists wer…
Boxing and the historians
(1997). Boxing and the historians. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 195-203
The Issue of Never-Married Motherhood in Britain, 1920-70
This article examines shifts in attitudes and changes in provision with regard to never-married mothers within three broad chronological periods. The first section considers attitudes towards these mothers in the period 1918-45, when the issue was conceptualized as one of public health and moral welfare. Second, the article examines the period between 1945 and 1970, when the dominant professional view of never-married mothers focused on identifyi…
The Health of the Schoolchild
Evacuation and Social Policy During the Second World War: Myth and Reality
Richard Titmuss's classic study of social policy during the Second World War, Problems of Social Policy, published in 1950, has exercised an enormous influence on historical accounts of the period. However, recently his interpretation has fallen out of favour with revisionist historians who have argued that he exaggerated the extent to which the artifical conditions of war provided a permanent basis for the creation of the welfare state in the po…
Physical culture and sport in schools in England and Wales, 1900–40
(1998). Physical culture and sport in schools in England and Wales, 1900–40. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 54-75
Only connect: The history of sport, medicine and society
(1998). Only connect: the history of sport, medicine and society. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 1-21
The Social History of Social Work: The Issue of the 'Problem Family', 1940-70
Recent work has demonstrated that there are important continuities in theories of social pathology, ranging from the ‘residuum’ of the 1890s to the ‘underclass’ of the 1990s. Yet, while concepts about the ‘underclass’ have been marked by important continuities over time, there have also been important changes. This article looks at the ‘problem family’ of the 1950s and uses evolving attitudes as a means of exploring the social history of social w…
Evacuation, Hygiene, and Social Policy: The Our Towns Report of 1943
There has recently been much debate about social policy in Britain during the Second World War. This article takes up Jose Harris's suggestion that historians should look not at large-scale forces, but at ‘those minuscule roots of idiosyncratic private culture’. As a way into the complex amalgam that comprised ideas on social policy in the 1940s, we look in particular at the report on the evacuation of schoolchildren entitled Our towns: a close u…
Tuberculosis and ethnicity in England and Wales, 1950-70
This article seeks to contribute to recent debates about ethnicity and health by exploring the history of migration and tuberculosis in England and Wales between 1950 and 1970. It concludes that the story was more complex than recent writing, with its emphasis on 'port health' concerns, has implied. The fear that tuberculosis was being imported by migrants was certainly a central concern of both early researchers and the medical establishment. Ho…
The cycle of deprivation and the concept of the underclass
In drawing on the concept of social exclusion, New Labour has been keen to distance itself from the longer-term ‘underclass’ discourse. At the same time, phrases such as ‘cycle of deprivation’ and ‘problem families’ are used with little sense of their earlier history. This article examines Sir Keith Joseph’s theory of the ‘cycle of deprivation’ with regard to the longer-term history of the idea of an underclass. It argues that the cycle of depriv…
Morrice McCRAE, The National Health Service in Scotland: Origins and Ideals, 1900–1950
The Unknown Titmuss
Recent writing in social policy on the role of agency has made important assumptions about social administration in the post-war period. In particular it is suggested that interpretations of the causes of poverty, and the thinking of Richard Titmuss, were characterised by a 'denial' of agency and almost total emphasis on structural factors. The implications were that this left the Titmuss paradigm vulnerable to more individualistic interpretation…
Ideology, Social Science, and Public Policy: The Debate over Transmitted Deprivation
In June 1972, Sir Keith Joseph, then Secretary of State for Social Services, referred in a speech to a ‘cycle of deprivation’, and a large-scale Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS)–Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Research Programme on Transmitted Deprivation was established. Earlier work has explored the cycle speech and Research Programme with regard to the history of the concept of the ‘underclass’, the career of Keith Joseph…
The Evacuation of Children in Wartime Scotland: Culture, Behaviour and Poverty
This article examines the experience of, outcomes of, and lessons drawn from the evacuation of Scottish schoolchildren during the early part of the Second World War. We begin by discussing the historiography of evacuation in Great Britain. The focus then shifts to the particular circumstances of Scotland. Here the mechanisms of evacuation were different from elsewhere in Britain in that children were evacuated in family rather than school class g…
Compulsion, Localism, and Pragmatism: The Micro-Politics of Tuberculosis Screening in the United Kingdom, 1950–1965
The modern history of the regulation of entry of non-citizens, the emergence of the nation-state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the history of public health, are all receiving increasing historical attention. This article explores the micro-politics of the tuberculosis screening debate in Britain between 1950 and 1965. It focuses on a key question. Given the pressure to adopt a policy of compulsory chest X-rays at ports of entry, …
Tuberculosis, migration, and medical examination: Lessons from history
The health screening of migrants, asylum seekers, and other entrants to the UK is currently high on the political and public health agenda. Two features of this debate are worth highlighting—the focus on single diseases such as tuberculosis, and the emphasis on the experience of Australia. In February 2005, the government announced proposals to implement existing powers by screening visa applicants for tuberculosis on "high risk" routes, and requ…
From the Cycle of Deprivation to Social Exclusion: Five Continues
One important aspect of Tony Blair's speech on social exclusion, given to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in York on 5 September 2006, has been ignored‐that its content was prefigured by Sir Keith Joseph, in his famous ‘cycle of deprivation’ speech, on 29 June 1972. This article seeks to explore these continuities over the past thirty‐four years, tracing similarities and differences between the two speeches. Moreover, it also reflects on the earli…
The concept of the unemployable
Current government policy documents have been concerned with reforming welfare policy, with matching rights with responsibilities, and especially with reducing the numbers of incapacity benefit claimants. This article places these debates in historical perspective, and revises the existing historiography on poverty and unemployment, by exploring the concept of the 'unemployable' in the period 1880-1940. Up to 1914, unemployability embraced those …
From Transmitted Deprivation to Social Exclusion: Policy, Poverty and Parenting
This book explores the history of debates over 'transmitted deprivation' and their relationship with current initiatives on social exclusion. Acknowledging the intellectual debt that New Labour owes to Sir Keith Joseph, the author highlights striking similarities between the Government's attempts to tackle social exclusion and earlier debates.
From transmitted deprivation to social exclusion
This chapter focuses on the way that New Labour has chosen to tackle social exclusion and child poverty from its election in May 1997, relating this to CASE research and to work on poverty dynamics, and looking in particular at the Sure Start initiative. It argues that these, along with the focus on transmission mechanisms and intergenerational continuities, point to marked continuities with the 1970s debate over transmitted deprivation. It also …
From transmitted deprivation to social exclusionPolicy, poverty, and parenting
This book fills a major gap in social policy: the history of debates over ‘transmitted deprivation’, and their relationship with current initiatives on social exclusion. The book explores the content and background to Sir Keith Joseph's famous ‘cycle of deprivation’ speech in 1972 examining his own personality and family background, his concern with ‘problem families’, and the wider policy context of the early 1970s. Tracing the direction taken b…
From transmitted deprivation to social exclusion: Policy, poverty, and parenting
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