This fascinating book provides a detailed national picture of poverty and social exclusion. Chapters consider a range of dimensions of exclusion and explores relationships between these in the first truly multi-dimensional analysis.

Introduction ~ Nick Bailey and Glen Bramley; Part 1: Resources; Fifty years of poverty in the UK ~ Joanna Mack; Living standards in the UK ~ Demi Patsios, Marco Pomati and Paddy Hillyard; Severe poverty and destitution ~ Glen Bramley, Suzanne Fitzpatrick and Filip Sosenko; Poverty, local services and austerity ~ Glen Bramley and Kirsten Besemer; Part 2: Participation; Social participation and social support ~ Lisa Wilson, Eldin Fahmy and Nick Bailey; Employment, poverty and social exclusion ~ Nick Bailey; Poverty, social exclusion and civic engagement ~ Eldin Fahmy; Part 3: Quality of life; Poverty and health: thirty years of progress? ~ Lucy Prior and David Manley; Housing and the living environment ~ Glen Bramley; Poverty and social harm: challenging discourses of risk, resilience and choice ~ Simon Pemberton, Christina Pantazis and Paddy Hillyard; Financial inclusion, financial stress and debt ~ Glen Bramley and Kirsten Besemer; The poverty of well-being ~ Michael Tomlinson and Lisa Wilson; Part 4: Bringing it together; The multidimensional analysis of social exclusion ~ Nick Bailey, Eldin Fahmy and Jonathan Bradshaw; Conclusions and emerging themes ~ Glen Bramley and Nick Bailey.

"This excellent book achieves the near impossible task of analysing social exclusion quantitatively, while maintaining the sense of lived experience of poor and excluded individuals and families." Naomi Eisenstadt, Oxford University

Publishing rationale • Presents the first large-scale analysis of the ground-breaking Poverty and Social Exclusion (PSE) dataset – the biggest research project on UK poverty ever taken • Provides detailed descriptions of the extent and forms of poverty and social exclusion in the UK across key domains for example health, employment, housing etc. • Headline figures are shocking following the recent austerity measures – 18m people unable to afford adequate housing; 14m can’t afford essential household goods ; nearly half population have some form of financial insecurity etc • Will be the companion to the Dermott and Main population based book from the PSE programme; • Will be part of the PISE series alongside other books from the latest PSE research (Daly already published and additional 1-2 titles across methods and international poverty) • Builds on the PSE surveys that have taken place each decade for past 50 years (including the Millennium survey that we published) Unique selling point: This will be the only comprehensive source of information on the extent and nature of deprivation across key domains and explores the nature and measurement of them and the relationships between them.