Poverty and the third way
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Poverty and the third way
(Routledge studies in human geography, 8)
Routledge, 2003
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-207) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What is poverty and how can it be tackled? Taking the Third Way out of its narrow party political context, this book argues that it is necessary to harness work beyond employment in order to pave a Third Way beyond capitalism and socialism. The outcome is a thought-provoking new approach towards combating poverty.
Poverty and the Third Way uncovers how New Labour's employment-focussed approach causes, rather than resolves, poverty. Searching for another approach, the authors find the seeds of an alternative 'Third Way' in radical European social democratic and ecological thought which seeks to transcend capitalism and socialism by developing work beyond employment. Exploring the reasons why such an approach is needed and how it can be implemented, the authors transcend the 'there is no alternative' to capitalism school of thought dominant in many advanced economies by providing a clearly marked route map of the way towards a post-capitalist economy.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part I Rationales for a Third Way Approach
2. The Problem of Full-Employment
3. The Informalisation of the Advanced Economies
4. Discourses on Informal Work and Their Implications
Part II Examining Poverty: Household Coping Capabilities and Practices
5. Coping Capabilities
6. Coping Practices
7. Developing Household Coping Capabilites: Problems and Prospects
Part III Tackling Poverty: A Third Way Approach
8. Towards a 'Civil-ised' Society: from Full-Employment to 'Full-Engagement'
9. The New Mutualism: a Fourth Sector Approached
10. The 'Working Citizen': Top-Down Initiatives
11. Conclusions
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