Gazeley, Ian; Verdon, Nicola - In: Explorations in Economic History 51 (2014) C, pp. 94-108
Two important and well-known surveys of the household budgets of the English rural labouring poor were produced by … investigation of the characteristics and extent of poverty in the countryside. We argue that Davies' standard of ‘tolerable comfort …’ can lay claim to being the first poverty line based upon the application of a minimum consumption standard to household …
