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Beyond the Threshold: The Measurement and Analysis of Social Exclusion
ISBN: 9781861340030 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection brings together a wide range of views on the conceptualization and measurement of social exclusion and the indicators for monitoring the effectiveness of policies for combating social exclusion.
This collection brings together a wide range of views on the conceptualization and measurement of social exclusion and the indicators for monitoring t...
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Tackling Inequalities: Where Are We Now and What Can Be Done?
ISBN: 9781861341464 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The growing divide between the poor and the rich is the most significant social change to have occurred during the last few decades. The new Labour government inherited a country more unequal than at any other time since the Second World War.This book brings together a collection of contributions on inequalities in the main areas of British life: income, wealth, standard of living, employment, education, housing, crime and health. It charts the extent of the growth in inequalities and offers a coherent critique of the new Labour government's policies aimed at those tackling this crisis. In...
The growing divide between the poor and the rich is the most significant social change to have occurred during the last few decades. The new Labour go...
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Biography and Social Exclusion in Europe: Experiences and Life Journeys
ISBN: 9781861343093 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on 250 life-story interviews in seven European Union countries, Biography and social exclusion in Europe: analyses personal struggles against social exclusion to illuminate local milieus and changing welfare regimes and contexts;points to challenging new agendas for European politics and welfare, beyond the rhetoric of communitarianism and the New Deal;vividly illustrates the lived experience and environmental complexity working for and against structural processes of social exclusion;refashions the interpretive tradition as a teaching and research tool linking macro and micro...
Based on 250 life-story interviews in seven European Union countries, Biography and social exclusion in Europe: analyses personal struggles against so...
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Poverty, Inequality and Health in Britain: 1800-2000: A Reader
ISBN: 9781861343284 / Angielski / Twarda / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inequalities in health, in terms of both empirical evidence and policies to tackle their reduction, are currently high on the research and political agendas. This reader provides two centuries of historical context to the current debate. Poverty, inequality and health in Britain: 1800-2000 presents extracts from classic texts on the subject of poverty, inequality and health in Britain. For the first time, these key resources are presented in a single volume. Each extract is accompanied by information about the author, and an introduction by the editors draws together themes of change and...
Inequalities in health, in terms of both empirical evidence and policies to tackle their reduction, are currently high on the research and political a...
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Running on Empty: Transport, Social Exclusion and Environmental Justice
ISBN: 9781861345691 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Running on empty argues that past failure to address fundamental inequalities in the ability of low-income households to access adequate transport has undermined effective delivery of welfare policies in the US and UK; describes the new policies and initiatives being developed to address this oversight; outlines the case for including transport as an area of social policy inquiry, identifying key factors and uses case study examples of practical initiatives from both sides of the Atlantic to draw lessons for future policy and practice. The book is aimed at students, researchers, policy makers...
Running on empty argues that past failure to address fundamental inequalities in the ability of low-income households to access adequate transport has...
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Patterns of Poverty Across Europe
ISBN: 9781861345745 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is widely accepted that income poverty should be defined in relative terms - but relative to where? Almost all household poverty statistics count the number of poor in relation to the national average of the country they are living in. Would the picture be different if we compared families' incomes with the local regional average? Or why not compare incomes across the whole of Europe? Using new EU-wide data, this report shows very different patterns of poverty across Europe, depending on the benchmark used. From a European perspective, the poor are heavily concentrated in Portugal,...
It is widely accepted that income poverty should be defined in relative terms - but relative to where? Almost all household poverty statistics count t...
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Discovering Child Poverty: The Creation of a Policy Agenda from 1800 to the Present
ISBN: 9781861345837 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Child poverty is currently regarded by many as the 'number one' issue in Britain. Yet it has not always been so high on the policy agenda. What were attitudes to poor children 200 years ago? How did child poverty emerge as both a quantifiable and urgent issue? And how did policy makers respond? These are the questions that this book tackles. The book: . vbTab]presents a broad but sophisticated overview of 200 years of investigation into and responses to the plight of poor children;. vbTab]identifies key moments and figures of the period;. vbTab]includes chapters on children and work,...
Child poverty is currently regarded by many as the 'number one' issue in Britain. Yet it has not always been so high on the policy agenda. What were a...
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On the Margins of Inclusion: Changing Labour Markets and Social Exclusion in London
ISBN: 9781861346001 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an account of how groups of economically marginal people have adapt and negotiate the offerings of a 'post industrial' labour market and a welfare system geared towards reintegrating them into formal employment. Through close ethnographic study it highlights collective strategies and responses to labour and welfare changes.
This book offers an account of how groups of economically marginal people have adapt and negotiate the offerings of a 'post industrial' labour market ...
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On the Margins of Inclusion: Changing Labour Markets and Social Exclusion in London
ISBN: 9781861346018 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the margins of inclusion explores the notion of 'social exclusion' from the perspective of those deemed to be 'socially excluded' and provides a compelling and vivid portrait of lives at the insecure, low-paid end of the labour market. The ethnography is used to illuminate key issues in sociology and social policy and to tackle debates and controversies that are central to current discussions on the appropriate role and function of state welfare. A thorough discussion of current policies to address social exclusion and area regeneration is woven into the fieldwork analysis.On the margins...
On the margins of inclusion explores the notion of 'social exclusion' from the perspective of those deemed to be 'socially excluded' and provides a co...
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Including the Excluded: From Practice to Policy in European Community Development
ISBN: 9781861347459 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an in-depth study of how community development can contribute to tackling social exclusion. Drawing on the outcomes of a project funded by the Social Inclusion Programme of the European Union and managed by a European network of community development organisations - the Combined European Bureau for Social Development - Including the excluded analyses the experiences of local communities; vbTab]identifies and explains the key principles that need to underpin programmes and projects that use a community-based approach to tackling social exclusion and vbTab]provides a...
This book provides an in-depth study of how community development can contribute to tackling social exclusion. Drawing on the outcomes of a project fu...
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Poverty, Policy and the State: The Changing Face of Social Security
ISBN: 9781861347992 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Zealand has experienced both sweeping economic and social reform and growing poverty and income inequality in the last twenty years. This book explores the changes to social security provision and coverage in the context of these developments and of widening national and international poverty and inequality.The book argues that the policy initiatives have altered the nature of social security and in doing so have significantly transformed the nature of social citizenship. The author brings the New Zealand data together in a way that has not been done previously and provides the reader...
New Zealand has experienced both sweeping economic and social reform and growing poverty and income inequality in the last twenty years. This book exp...
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From Transmitted Deprivation to Social Exclusion: Policy, Poverty, and Parenting
ISBN: 9781861348357 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Filling a major gap in social policy literature, this book looks at the history of debates over the poverty cycle and their relationship with current initiatives on social exclusion. The book uses Sir Keith Joseph s famous cycle of deprivation speech in 1972 as a backdrop to explore British New Labour s approach to child poverty: initiatives such as Sure Start, the influence of research on intergenerational continuities, and its new stance on social exclusion. Making extensive use of archival sources, private papers, contemporary published documents, and oral interviews with retired civil... Filling a major gap in social policy literature, this book looks at the history of debates over the poverty cycle and their relationship with curre... |
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The Eu and Social Inclusion: Facing the Challenges
ISBN: 9781861348845 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social cohesion is one of the declared objectives of the European Union and, with some 16% of EU citizens at risk of poverty, the need to fight poverty and social exclusion continues as a major challenge. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the EU Social Inclusion Process, the means by which it hopes to meet this objective, and explores the challenges ahead at local, regional, national and EU levels. It sets out concrete proposals for taking the Process forward.The book provides a unique analysis of policy formulation and assessment. Setting out the evolution and current state of EU...
Social cohesion is one of the declared objectives of the European Union and, with some 16% of EU citizens at risk of poverty, the need to fight povert...
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Understanding Inequality, Poverty and Wealth: Policies and Prospects
ISBN: 9781861349156 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when the divide between the wealthy and the disadvantaged is widening, this major textbook provides students with a critical understanding of poverty and social exclusion in relation to wealth, rather than as separate from it.Raising fundamental questions about the organisation of society, social structures and relationships and social justice, the book is split into four main sections exploring key concepts and issues; 'people and place' (poverty and wealth across different groups and situations); the role of the state; and prospects for the future. This is the only textbook to...
At a time when the divide between the wealthy and the disadvantaged is widening, this major textbook provides students with a critical understanding o...
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Long-Term Ill Health, Poverty and Ethnicity
ISBN: 9781861349934 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chronic ill-health is now recognised as a major public health and social welfare issue, with significant new policy initiatives in recent months.This report presents findings from a detailed new investigation into the experiences of individuals living with long-term ill-health and their families. New in-depth qualitative material is combined with secondary analyses of national datasets to examine the ways in which long-term ill-health impacts upon different dimensions of poverty. The report explores the links between long-term ill-health and three inter-related areas: employment, welfare...
Chronic ill-health is now recognised as a major public health and social welfare issue, with significant new policy initiatives in recent months.This ...
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In the River They Swim: Essays from Around the World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
ISBN: 9781599472515 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sociologist Thomas Sowell writes, "We need to confront the most blatant fact that has persisted across centuries of social history vast ddifferences in productivity among peoples, and the economic and other consequences of such differences." Poverty demeans dignity, shrinks the soul, wastes potential, and inflicts suffering on three billion people on our planet. We must also acknowledge that, during the past fifty yyears, the record in international assistance to the least developed countries has been disappointing; the economics-based abstractions developed in the think tanks of... The sociologist Thomas Sowell writes, "We need to confront the most blatant fact that has persisted across centuries of social history vast ddiffer... |
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On the Parish?: The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England 1550-1750
ISBN: 9780199560493 / Angielski / Miękka / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the Parish? is a study of the negotiations which took place over the allocation of poor relief in the rural communities of sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth century England. It analyzes the relationships between the enduring systems of informal support through which the laboring poor made attempts to survive for themselves; the expanding range of endowed charity encouraged by the late sixteenth century statutes for charitable uses; and the developing system of parish relief coordinated under the Elizabethan poor laws.
Based on exhaustive research in the archives of the... On the Parish? is a study of the negotiations which took place over the allocation of poor relief in the rural communities of sixteenth, seventeenth a...
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Poverty, Work, and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order
ISBN: 9780521848268 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The poor seem easy to identify: those who do not have enough money or enough of the things money can buy. This book explores a different approach to poverty, one suggested by the notion of capabilities emphasized by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. In the spirit of the capabilities approach, the book argues that poverty refers not to a lack of things but to the lack of the ability to live life in a particular way. The authors argue that the poor are those who cannot live a life that is discovered and created rather than already known. Avoiding poverty, then, means having the capacity and...
The poor seem easy to identify: those who do not have enough money or enough of the things money can buy. This book explores a different approach to p...
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Poverty: A History
ISBN: 9780631205296 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Widely regarded as one of the classics of post-war historical writing, this book shows how central the role of poverty has been throughout the history of Europe.
Widely regarded as one of the classics of post-war historical writing, this book shows how central the role of poverty has been throughout the history...
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Give a Little: How Your Small Donations Can Transform Our World
ISBN: 9781401323400 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "With open hearts and open hands, we gave what we could, and a little became a lot." --from Give a Little Dimes destroyed polio. Five bucks can beat malaria. Give a Little: How Your Small Donations Can Transform Our World not only contains remarkable, inspiring stories of how small donations are making an extraordinary difference in the lives of millions both here in the United States and around the world, but also lays out where and how to start giving . . . today. Together, ordinary Americans have far more transformational power than any government or...
"With open hearts and open hands, we gave what we could, and a little became a lot." --from Give a Little Dimes destroyed polio. Fi...
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