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Rethinking Poverty - What Makes a Good Society? (Paperback) Loot Price: R322
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Rethinking Poverty - What Makes a Good Society? (Paperback): Barry Knight

Rethinking Poverty - What Makes a Good Society? (Paperback)

Barry Knight

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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 a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing austerity, under-resourced organisations and a lack of social solidarity. Based on a research programme carried out by the Webb Memorial Trust involving leading organisations, academics, community activists, children, and surveys of more than 12,000 people living in poverty, a key theme is power which shows that the way forward is to increase people's sense of agency in building the society that they want.

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Imprint: Policy Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2017
First published: 2017
Authors: Barry Knight
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-4060-7
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment
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LSN: 1-4473-4060-4
Barcode: 9781447340607

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