Poverty Wars : Reconnecting Research with Reality / Peter Saunders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saunders, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Australia.

Poverty.

Poverty--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : University of New South Wales Press Ltd, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Saunders argues that as a nation Australia can afford to eliminate financial poverty. The fact that we don't do so is a matter of choice, not affordability - as the experience of other countries demonstrates. In challenging this idea, this book focuses on how looking at poverty differently can help to make a world without poverty a practical reality.

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 CONTESTING POVERTY; A new war on poverty; A new battleground; Key issues and ideas; More research?; 2 MAPPING THE POVERTY PROFILE; Contesting poverty; Setting broad limits on Australian poverty; Mapping the profile of poverty; The limitations of statistical poverty; The meaning of poverty; 3 NEW CONCEPTS, NEW EVIDENCE; Regaining the initiative; Redefining poverty; Deprivation, capability and exclusion; Poverty as accumulated disadvantage; 4 THE CAUSES OF POVERTY; Cause as description; Structural inequalities; Events, combinations and accumulations

Choice and opportunityBad luck; Policy failure; 5 THE CONSEQUENCES OF POVERTY; Identifying consequences; Alternative coping strategies; Making ends meet; Supplementing resources; Going without; Shame; Effects on children; Health effects; Family life and parenting; 6 POVERTY AND THE SOCIAL FABRIC; Who is responsible?; Bridging gaps; Establishing reconnections; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4237-9004-9

0-86840-132-3

OCLC:

144650772