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This paper focuses mainly on the experience of the post-war U.K. economy and considers the way in which official definitions of poverty underwent modification and the underlying rationale for this. It examines the emergence of the welfare state and the influence of technological advances and mass market on society.

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"This is "relative poverty". It is often contrasted to what is called "absolute poverty" "the kind of poverty where one has barely enough to survive on" but, in a sense, that can be quite misleading. Indeed, it can lend itself to the complacent conclusion we having nothing really to grumble about; at least compared to others less fortunate. Like a child, admonished for not eating all her peas, we are told to remember "the starving millions in the Third World". So we should. Even so, the inference that we should be eternally grateful for living in a society that manages to put food on our plate providing we can afford it is, frankly, one that sticks in the gullet."

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