This important and authoritative new work by one of Britain's leading sociologists investigates the relationship between poverty and wealth. It considers the evidence of poverty and wealth in Britain from the nineteenth century to present day, drawing on the classic surveys on poverty undertaken by Booth, Rowntree and Townsend, and reviewing the leading debates on income distribution, property and wealth.
- ISBN10 0582080886
- ISBN13 9780582080881
- Publish Date 31 October 1994 (first published 27 June 1994)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Longman
- Imprint Longman Higher Education
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English