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Understanding poverty
- Author:
- ALCOCK Pete
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 301p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 2nd
Provides a review of research on, and debates about, the problem of poverty in the 1990s. Covers the definition and measurement of poverty, its distribution and causes, and the development of anti-poverty strategy. Also looks at: the dynamics of deprivation; the 'underclass'; poverty in Europe and beyond; defining and measuring poverty; gender, racism, ageing and disability; social security policy; welfare rights; and the politics of poverty and the welfare state.