This study makes a significant contribution to the recent debate over the nature and motivation of late-Victorian and Edwardian social policy. It provides a case study with which to assess the hypotheses put forward by social scientists as to the relationship between social statistics and policy.

Easy-to-read but forensic investigation into just how Wales has been short-changed by Westminster since devolution, and condemned to the lowest standards of living in Britain. The current set-up is failing Wales: this is a rallying cry to the people who call Cymru home to demand and expect better. -- Books Council of Wales