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ISBN 978 1 84742 714 4 paperback
ISBN 978 1 84742 715 1 hardcover

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For Peter

First there was Tawney. Then came Titmuss. Now there is Townsend. At least future students of social reform will have an easy key to remembering the most important egalitarian writers of the past 75 years: a convenient triumvirate of Ts.

The Guardian Leader , 31 July 1975

Contents

Adrian Sinfield, Alan Walker and Carol Walker

Paul Thompson

Hilary Land and Hilary Rose

Anthony B. Atkinson

Jonathan Bradshaw

Ruth Lister

Carol Walker

Danny Dorling

Margaret Whitehead

Chris Phillipson

Carol Thomas

Conor Gearty

Nicola Yeates and Bob Deacon

Alan Walker and Carol Walker

Figures

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This book was inspired by Peter Townsend and is dedicated to him. The shock of his death, in June 2009, quickly translated into a widely held determination to ensure that his work and, especially, its core message concerning the need for social justice, was not lost to current and future generations of students, and policy makers. Therefore the book serves as an introduction to Peters work. It is not merely a festschrift because it does more than celebrate Peters massive contributions. It builds on the sure foundations that he laid in various fields and applies his myriad insights to contemporary policy debates.

The book reflects Peters triple contributions, to teaching, research and campaigning, which were all, in essence, concerned with combating poverty, inequality and social injustice. It comprises a rallying call to defeat these evils and to create a better, more cohesive society. It also reminds everyone policy makers, politicians, media and the public why there is a welfare state and why the case for it must be repeated constantly alongside critiques of its failings and constructive proposals for improvement.

This book would not have been possible without the help and support of various colleagues and friends. First of all the contributors deserve our thanks for their enthusiastic assent to joining this venture and the quality of their chapters, each of which is dedicated, with great affection, to Peter. Alison Shaw, at The Policy Press, was an equally enthusiastic commissioning editor and a great source of support. Karen Tsui and Olga Swales, at the University of Sheffield, provided excellent technical assistance. Last, but not least, Dorothy Sinfield acted as a fourth shadow editor. We are very grateful to all of them.

Alan Walker, University of Sheffield

Adrian Sinfield, University of Edinburgh
Carol Walker, University of Lincoln

Sir Tony Atkinson is a Fellow of Nuffield College, of which he was Warden from 1994 to 2005, and is Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His most recent books are The changing distribution of earnings in OECD countries (2008), and Top incomes: A global perspective (2010). He can be contacted via Nuffield College, Oxford (www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/economics/people/atkinson.htm).

Jonathan Bradshaw CBE, FBA, is Professor of Social Policy at the University of York. His main interests are in child poverty, social security policy and comparative social policy. He has recently been working on an edited book on The well-being of children in the UK (The Policy Press, 2011). (For more information see www-users.york.ac.uk/~jrb1)

Bob Deacon is Professor of International Social Policy at the University of Sheffield. He also holds the UNESCO-UNU Chair in Regional Integration, Migration and the Free Movement of People at UNUCRIS in Bruges. His most recent books are Global social policy and governance (2007) and World regional social policy and global governance (co-edited) (2010). (www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles/deacon.html)

Danny Dorling is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. With a group of colleagues he helped create the website www.worldmapper.org which shows who has most and least in the world. His recent books include: (in 2010) Injustice: Why social inequalities persist and (in 2011) So you think you know about Britain?. (www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/staff/dorling_danny)

Conor Gearty is Professor of Human Rights Law, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Recent publications include Debating social rights (with Virginia Mantouvalou) (Hart Publishing, 2011), and The rights future (2011) (web publication: www.therightsfuture.com). His main research fields are in civil liberties, human rights and terrorism. He is currently undertaking research into liberty and security (for publication as a book for Polity Press) and also the law relating to human rights in the UK. (www.conorgearty.com and www.therightsfuture.com)

Hilary Land is Emerita Professor of Family Policy at the University of Bristol. Publications include Large families in London (Bell, 1969) (pilot for national poverty survey); Change, choice and conflict in social policy (with Hall, P., Parker, R. and Webb, A.) (Heinemann, 1975) and Lone motherhood in twentieth century Britain (with Kiernan, K. and Lewis, J.) (Oxford University Press, 1998).

Ruth Lister is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University, and a member of the House of Lords. Key research interests are poverty, citizenship, social security, gender and children. Publications include: Citizenship: Feminist perspectives (Macmillan Palgrave, 1997/2003); Poverty (Polity Press, 2004); Understanding theories and concepts in social policy (The Policy Press, 2010). (www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/staff/lister.html)

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