Matt Barnes is a Senior Researcher at the National Centre for Social Research, London, UK (m.barnes@natcen.ac.uk). His research interests are the conceptualization and measurement of poverty and social exclusion, and issues of work-life balance.

Originally published in 2005. This key work addresses social exclusion, employing data from a nationally representative survey of British households to quantify levels of social exclusion and the composition of the socially excluded population.

Contents: Towards an empirical operationalization of social exclusion; The operationalization of social exclusion: theoretical and policy approaches; Developing a set of quantitative indicators of social exclusion for Great Britain; Investigating the multi-dimensional nature of social exclusion in Great Britain; Investigating the longitudinal nature of social exclusion in Great Britain; Identifying social exclusion in Great Britain during the 1990s; Social exclusion in Europe: comparing the UK to other European Union Member States; Operationalizing social exclusion: implications for research and policy; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.