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In his final statement of the book Welshman states 'if this book has documented and analysed the cycle speech and Transmitted Deprivation Research Programme, and has helped to place current policies on social exclusion in historical perspective it will have served its purpose' and although it would make a very short review the answer to this statement is 'yes' it has. From Transmitted Deprivation to Social Exclusion starts with the development of Sir Keith Joseph's 'cycle of deprivation' theory in 1974 and details the research programme into transmitted deprivation set in motion by him. The book gives details of the purpose of the research programme, the problems it encountered and the people involved. The final section shows how New Labour's approach to families, children, social exclusion and poverty is in many ways a reinvention of the debates that contributed to the research programme 30 years earlier.
For someone unfamiliar with the detail of the research programme outlined in this book the introductory chapter is a little daunting: there is an expectation that the reader will at least know what the 'research programme' is as the book does not seek to explain it...