Poverty: A study of town life

A century ago, Seebohm Rowntree embarked on an investigation of poverty in York. The study was hugely influential in the thinking which led to the foundation of the welfare state and his research methods still have validity today. This classic work is republished in a special centenary edition with an extended Preface by Jonathan Bradshaw. A faithful reproduction of the original 1901 edition, it includes the famous town plan, as well as the infamous map of the licensed houses of York.