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Bachelors Economics University of Oxford
Masters Sociology University of Liverpool
PhD Sociology University of Liverpool

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Brereton Townsend was a British sociologist. The last position he held was Professor of International Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He was also Emeritus Professor of Social Policy in the University of Bristol, and was one of the co-founders of the University of Essex. He wrote widely on the economics of poverty and was co-founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. The Peter Townsend Policy Press Prize was established by the British Academy in his memory.

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Poverty in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living (1979) (1276)
Health and Deprivation: Inequality and the North (1987) (1008)
Poverty and social exclusion in Britain (2000) (790)
The Structured Dependency of the Elderly: A Creation of Social Policy in the Twentieth Century (1981) (460)
Widening inequality of health in northern England, 1981-91 (1994) (364)
The international analysis of poverty (2014) (346)
The Family Life of Old People (1958) (319)
Old People in Three Industrial Societies (1969) (308)
A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY-A REJOINDER TO PROFESSOR AMARTYA SEN (1985) (301)
Breadline Europe: The Measurement of Poverty (2000) (185)
The Last Refuge (1962) (162)
Inequalities in Health: The Black Report & the Health Divide (new third edition) (1999) (158)
The poor and the poorest (1969) (157)
The family life of old people: an inquiry in East London (1958) (133)
World poverty: New policies to defeat an old enemy (2002) (125)
The Concept of Poverty (1971) (111)
The Aged in the Welfare State. (1966) (102)
Targeting welfare: on the functions and dysfunctions of means testing in social policy (2002) (90)
Building decent societies : rethinking the role of social security in development (2009) (88)
The meaning of poverty. 1962. (1962) (84)
Inequality and the health service. (1974) (79)
Measuring Child Poverty and Deprivation (2004) (78)
The last refuge : a survey of residential institutions and homes for the aged in England and Wales (1963) (71)
Inequalities in Health in the City of Bristol: A Preliminary Review of Statistical Evidence (1985) (69)
The Right to Social Security and National Development: Lessons from OECD Experience for Low-Income Countries (2007) (63)
Developing the Global Manager Using a Capability Framework (2003) (62)
Sociology and social policy (1975) (62)
The poor and the poorest : a new analysis of the Ministry of Labour's Family expenditure surveys of 1953-54 and 1960 (1965) (60)
What is poverty?: an historical perspective (2006) (60)
An Exploratory Study of International Students Studying and Living in a Regional Area (2008) (57)
Introduction: compendium of best practices in poverty measurement (2006) (45)
25th volume celebration paper Policies for the aged in the 21st century: more ‘structured dependency’ or the realisation of human rights? (2006) (44)
Isolation, desolation and loneliness (1980) (44)
Poverty, social exclusion and social polarisation: the need to construct an international welfare state (2002) (38)
Using human rights to defeat ageism: dealing with policy-induced 'structured dependency' (2007) (38)
Building Decent Societies (2009) (35)
The concept of poverty: Working papers on methods of investigation and life-styles of the poor in different countries; (1970) (33)
Child Rights and Child Poverty: Can the International Framework of Children's Rights Be Used to Improve Child Survival Rates? (2007) (32)
From Universalism to Safety Nets: The Rise and Fall of Keynesian Influence on Social Development (2004) (31)
Better benefits for health: plan to implement the central recommendation of the Acheson report (1999) (31)
What is Enough? New Evidence on Poverty Allowing the Definition of a Minimum Benefit (1991) (30)
The impact of multicultural experience in the development of socio‐cultural adaptation for international business students (2007) (29)
PERCEPTIONS OF POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION (1998) (27)
Deprivation indices. (1991) (27)
Widening Inequalities of Health in Britain: A Rejoinder to Rudolph Klein (1990) (25)
Individual or Social Responsibility for Premature Death? Current Controversies in the British Debate about Health (1990) (25)
The social minority (1973) (24)
Deprivation and ill health. (1991) (24)
Jazz in American Culture (2000) (23)
Cultural adaptation: a comparative analysis of tertiary students' international education experience. (2004) (20)
The cerebral circulation (1999) (20)
Five Hundred Over Sixty: A Community Survey of Ageing. (1958) (20)
Absolute and overall poverty in Britain in 1997: what the population themselves say (1997) (19)
The Necessities of Life (2014) (16)
The Sociology of Social Security (1991) (15)
Poverty & labour in London: Interim report of a centenary survey (1987) (15)
Responses to poverty : lessons from Europe (1985) (15)
The relationship between child poverty and child rights: the role of indicators (2005) (14)
Why are the Many Poor? (1984) (13)
Toward Equality in Health through Social Policy (1981) (13)
The Fifth social service: A critical analysis of the Seebohm proposals (1970) (13)
Child Rights and Child Poverty in Developing countries (2002) (13)
‘A Society for People’ (2009) (12)
Social surveys of old age in Great Britain, 1945-58. (1959) (12)
The rich man in his castle (1994) (11)
Human rights and social policies for children and women: the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) in Practice (2005) (11)
The Family Life of Old People: An Investigation in East London (1955) (10)
Perceptions of poverty and social exclusion: report to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (1998) (10)
Social Security and Human Rights (2009) (10)
Multidimensional measures of child poverty (2005) (10)
Disability in Britain : a manifesto of rights (1983) (10)
The poor are poorer : a statistical report on changes in the living standards of rich and poor in the United Kingdom 1979-1989 (1991) (9)
The aged in the welfare state : the interim report of a survey of persons aged 65 and over in Britain, 1962 and 1963 (1965) (9)
An Analysis of the Cross-cultural Transferability of Western Motivation Theories to the Developing Eastern, China Region (1997) (9)
Underclass and Overclass: The Widening Gulf Between Social Glasses in Britain in the 1980s (1993) (9)
A Sociological Approach to the Measurement of Poverty--A Rejoinder [Poor, Relatively Speaking] (1985) (8)
THE PLACE OF OLDER PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT SOCIETIES. (1964) (8)
Developing international managers: the contribution of cultural experience to learning (2015) (8)
The Dark Side of Technology (2017) (7)
Social Security in Developing Countries: a Brief Overview (2009) (7)
What is Enough? The Definition of a Poverty Line (1993) (7)
Ethnoconsumerism in tourism, the need for ethnocapability (2000) (7)
Social Policies for Old Age (1957) (7)
Absolute and overall poverty (2000) (7)
Ending world poverty in the 21st century (2000) (7)
The International measurement of 'absolute' and 'overall' poverty: applying the 1995 Copenhagen definitions to Britain (2005) (6)
The Changing Necessities of Life. Working Paper 2 of the Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey (2001) (6)
Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s (2006) (6)
New Pensions for the Old (1955) (6)
A poor future: Can we counter growing poverty in Britain and across the world? (1996) (6)
Welfare services and the family (1980) (6)
Using human rights to defeat ageism: dealing with policy-induced ‘structured dependency’ (2007) (5)
Whistleblowers — A Legitimate Role in Corporate Life? (1996) (5)
Labour and equality: A Fabian study of Labour in power, 1974-79 (1980) (5)
Poverty, socialism, and Labour in power (1967) (5)
POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND ESPECIALLY CHILD BENEFIT (2006) (5)
Inequalities in health: The need to construct more comprehensive health policies (1998) (5)
‘Family and Kinship in Industrial Society’ (1960) (5)
Investment in Social Security: a Possible UN Model for Child Benefit? (2009) (4)
Social services for all (1968) (4)
5. Measures of Income and Expenditure as Criteria of Poverty (1965) (4)
Ethnoconsumerism and ethnocapability: an evolution of typologies in relationship marketing (2000) (4)
China phoenix : the revolution in China (1955) (4)
Duel of Eagles (1970) (4)
Adorno on Jazz: Vienna versus the vernacular (1988) (4)
Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey of Britain: Questionnaire (1999) (3)
Unfinished Statistical Business on Low Incomes?: A Review of New Proposals by the Department of Social Security for the Production of Public Information on Poverty (1992) (3)
Ending world poverty in the twentieth century (2000) (3)
Social services for all? eleven Fabian essays (1968) (3)
Human rights, transnational corporations and the World Bank (2002) (3)
Councils, Committees and Concern for the Old (1961) (3)
Peter Townsend: An International Scholar of Poverty (1996) (3)
What's happening in China? (1959) (3)
The politics of poverty and health. (1993) (3)
Politics and the Statistics of Poverty1 (1972) (3)
Art within reach : artists and craftworkers, architects and patrons in the making of public art (1984) (3)
Deprivation and Ill-Health: New Evidence (1991) (3)
Trends in deprivation in the London labour market : a study of low incomes and unemployment in London between 1985 and 1992 (1993) (3)
Paradigms of Poverty: A Comment (1986) (3)
A structural plan needed to reduce inequalities of health (1999) (3)
Ethnoconsumerism and ethnocapability: new paradigms in multicultural relationship management (2001) (2)
The Nature and Extent of Child Poverty in Developing Countries (2002) (2)
The extent and nature of absolute poverty (2007) (2)
The International Analysis of Poverty@@@Understanding Poverty (1995) (2)
Review Symposium@@@Poverty in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living (1981) (2)
The Meaning of Land Reform in China (1953) (2)
National assistance and the rediscovery of poverty: The poor and the poorest (2004) (2)
The Rise and Fall of Keynesian Influence on Social Development Policies (2002) (2)
A Rejoinder on Poverty (1984) (2)
The human condition is structurally unequal (2002) (2)
Hard Times: What Prospects for European Social Policy? (1991) (2)
Guerrillas, Subordinates and Passers-By (1981) (2)
The Relevance of Human Resource Management Theory on the Management Practices of Hospitality Providers on Phillip Island Victoria (2010) (2)
Free Jazz: Musical Style and Liberationist Ethic, 1956-1965 (2001) (2)
Inequalities in health: the Welsh dimension 2002 - 2005 (2005) (2)
Social policy and the NHS (1976) (1)
The last emperor: Decline and fall of the British Empire (1975) (1)
The International Welfare State (1993) (1)
The Black Report: rejoinder to P. M. Strong. (1991) (1)
Mediterranean poverty and conflict: applying a human rights strategy (2007) (1)
Labour and inequality: sixteen Fabian essays (1972) (1)
Poverty and Participation in Twenty-First Century Multicultural Britain (2018) (1)
Conclusion: constructing an anti-poverty strategy (2002) (1)
Old People in Three Industrial Societies: An Introduction (2017) (1)
An end to poverty or more of the same? Jeffrey Sachs The (2005) (1)
Doubly Handicapped: Disabled and Poor (2003) (1)
Three Models of Social Security in the History of the Industrialized Countries (2009) (1)
The Development of Intercultural Capability (2009) (1)
Jazz Scene, Liverpool Scene:: The Early 1960s (2001) (1)
Essays on the History of British Sociological Research: Surveys of poverty to promote democracy (1985) (1)
The future of social security : a response to the social security Green Paper/ edited by Richard Silburn ; preface by Peter Townsend (1985) (1)
'Absolute' and 'overall' poverty: the Copenhagen approach to the fulfilment of human rights (2006) (1)
Responses to Poverty: Lessons from Europe. (1987) (1)
A social contract for families : memorandum to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, November 1974 (1975) (1)
Revolution in community welfare. (1970) (1)
Developing multicultural relationship management skills for the tourism market (2002) (1)
Poverty in Britain and Australia: Reflections on "Poverty in the United Kingdom" by Peter Townsend (1980) (1)
Brian Abel-Smith (2004) (1)
The poverty line: methodology and international comparisons (2018) (1)
The Extent and Nature of Absolute Poverty. Final Report to DFID (2006) (1)
Jazz Scene, Liverpool Scene (2001) (1)
The ‘Silent Spring’ Revisited (2017) (0)
National Park conservation trail. (1978) (0)
Strategies and Activities for Using Local Communities as Environmental Education Sites, Charles E. Roth, Linda G. Lockwood. ERIC, Ohio State University, London (1979), 207, $5.50 (1981) (0)
International management skills for small business: the development of the construct of international capability (2006) (0)
Good Technologies with Bad Side Effects (2017) (0)
Relationship marketing in international tourism (2000) (0)
Rejection of Knowledge and Information (2017) (0)
Socialism and affluence (1967) (0)
Food, Survival, and Resources (2017) (0)
A New 12 Volt Automotive Connection (1997) (0)
Technology and Survival—Are They Compatible? (2017) (0)
Medicine—Expectations and Reality (2017) (0)
Why do we need social protection and social security systems (2007) (0)
Measuring Incapacity for Self-Care (2018) (0)
Child labour employment relations and legislation (2001) (0)
The odds against us (1987) (0)
Technology, the New Frontier for Crime and Terror (2017) (0)
The development of home and welfare services for old people, 1946-60 (1961) (0)
WORKING PAPER SERIES I S S N 1 3 2 7 – 5 2 1 6 THE CHALLENGE OF PUBLIC SERVICES IN PRIVATE OWNERSHIP (2004) (0)
China Phoenix. The Revolution in China.@@@No Flies in China. (1956) (0)
Managing ethnic differences in the global organisation (1999) (0)
Natural Disasters and Civilization (2017) (0)
Rethinking Anti-Poverty Strategies: The Last 25 Years and the Next (1991) (0)
Response to Review of Child Poverty in the Developing World (2004) (0)
Ethnoconsumerism in tourism: a customer focus (2000) (0)
Conservation Action Project (CAP) (1983) (0)
Six Million Poor Are Poorer (1991) (0)
Old People Alone [Abridged] (1973) (0)
Under the Tree (2002) (0)
Great Britain - where traditions thrive today. (1981) (0)
Re-thinking international social policy to defeat poverty (2004) (0)
Old People's Homes@@@The Last Refuge: A Study of Residential Institutions and Homes for the Aged in England and Wales (1963) (0)
Parents in the recovery room (1995) (0)
Technology-Driven Social Isolation (2017) (0)
Consumerism and Obsolescence (2017) (0)
The Necessities of Life. Working Paper 1 of the Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey (2001) (0)
Poverty in the Mediterranean region: applying human rights strategy (2006) (0)
The family and later life (1981) (0)
The Poor in Britain from 1579 (1992) (0)
Session 2: The trainers' response. (1984) (0)
Book Review: Why We Can’t Afford the Rich by Andrew Sayer (2016) (0)
The mammoth hunters (2000) (0)
Symbolism in management education: An analysis of the origins and academic relevance of the 'Bachelor' qualification in a gender balanced, multi-cultured society (1997) (0)
Reconstructing the social security system in the 21st century to solve the developing problems of poverty and access to human rights (2006) (0)
The World's Best Golf Jokes (1988) (0)
Book reviews (1981) (0)
What's Happening in China?@@@The New Face of China. (1960) (0)
Multicultural tourism: the need to define the globally competent manager (2001) (0)
Tales of Future Past (1991) (0)
Work and Retirement (2017) (0)
Conclusion: constructing an anti-privacy strategy (2002) (0)
Fighting child poverty through direct policies (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
In the Ghetto (1993) (0)
Alvin L. Schorr (ed.), Jubilee for our Times: A Practical Program for Income Equality , Columbia University Press, 1977. xi + 320 pp. $18.75. (1978) (0)
Barriers to the availability of community based sentencing options (and completion thereof) for offenders in rural and remote areas of New South Wales (2008) (0)
Unfinished Statistical Business (1992) (0)
The last emperor : an intimate account of George VI and the fall of his empire (1976) (0)
Remember Your Purpose; Remember Your Audience. (1981) (0)
Rights-based international indicators: aim, options and outcomes of the world statistically-based report on poverty and the rights of the child (2005) (0)
Decay of Materials and Information Loss from Technology (2017) (0)
Evading the Issue of Widening Inequalities of Health in Britain: A Reply to Rudolf Klein (1991) (0)
The world's best Irish jokes (1994) (0)
WO OR RKI IN NG G P PA AP PE ER R N NO (2000) (0)
American Czarism: The Aftermath of the Los Angeles Riots (1992) (0)
Modern Employment Law (1998) (0)
The Ideology of Treatment (2017) (0)
The Geography of Poverty and Ill-Health (1987) (0)
The personal, family and social circumstances of old people : report of an investigation carried out in England in 1959 to pilot a future cross-national survey of old age (1959) (0)
Book Review - Poverty in the United Kingdom (1980) (0)
Analysis and examination of the employment relations in India (2001) (0)
Knowledge Loss from Changing Language (2017) (0)
From Trains to Transistors (2017) (0)
Tampering with Fate. (1977) (0)
Problems in the Cross-National Study of Old People in the Family: Segregation Versus Integration1 (1968) (0)
SUPPORT FOR THE FAMILY (1958) (0)
Twenty-five Years of Two-Year School Publications. (1979) (0)
Human Resource Management Effectiveness: A Contingency Theory of Organisation Structure and Motivation Culture (1997) (0)
The World's Best Fishing Jokes (1992) (0)
2 Conceptualising Poverty (2006) (0)
Comparing the Financial Position of the Aged in Britain and the United States (2000) (0)
Investment in social security: a possible United Nations model for child benefit? (2012) (0)
Sharing and Caring :The Dilemma of Public and Private Organisational Effectiveness (2003) (0)
Labour Markets, Polarisation and Trends in Deprivation in London (1991) (0)
Method and the study of the old person in the family (1957) (0)
The many dimensions of poverty (2005) (0)
Hindsight, Foresight, Radical Suggestions, and a Grain of Hope (2017) (0)
Think globally, act locally (1997) (0)
Have We the Knowledge, Willpower, and Determination to Survive? (2017) (0)

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