Rethinking Poverty What makes a good society?

• Tác giả: Barry Knight
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1447340019
• ISBN-10: 1447340604
• ISBN-10: 1447340639
• ISBN-13: 978-1447340010
• ISBN-13: 978-1447340607
• ISBN-13: 978-1447340638
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 362.57 Measures to prevent, protect against, limit effects of poverty
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Policy Press, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 171 pages) : , illustrations.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 198220
• Chủ đề: 1. Pauvres; 2. Politique sociale; 3. Poverty; 5. Social policy; 7. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General

Tóm tắt

Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence In our society, a wealthy minority flourish, while around one-fifth experience chronic poverty and many people on middle incomes fear for their futures. Social policy has failed to find answers to these problems and there is now a demand for a new narrative to enable us to escape from the crisis in our society. With the aim of ending poverty, this book argues that we need to start with the society we want, rather than framing poverty as a problem to be solved. It calls for abold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing aust.