Poverty and inequality
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Bibliographic Information
Poverty and inequality
（Critical and radical debates in social work / series editor, lain Ferguson and Michael Lavalette）
Policy Press, 2014
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 59-63
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Neoliberalism and austerity have led to a growing inequality gap and increasing levels of poverty and social harm. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Chris Jones and Tony Novak look at consequences of poverty and inequality and the challenge they pose to the engaged social work academic and practitioner. There are many studies of poverty that look at competing definitions (and some of the consequences) of poverty in modern society. Here the authors argue that, especially for a profession with a claimed commitment to values based on equality, social justice and meeting human need, poverty and immiserisation impose a requirement on social workers to speak out and not to collude with social policies that make the plight of the impoverished even harder and their lives even worse.
Table of Contents
- Series Editors' Introduction
- "We don't want to be ashamed tomorrow" ~ Lead essay by Chris Jones and Tony Novak
- Which Side Are We On? ~ response by Mimi Abramovitz
- Neo-liberalism and welfare: the Canadian experience ~ response by Suzanne Dudziak
- Social work and the Greek crisis ~ response by Dimitra-Dora Teloni
- Now Time for Neoliberalism: Resisting Plan B from Below ~ response by Sanford F. Schram
- Some concluding thoughts: What are you going to do about it? ~ Chris Jones and Tony Novak
- Bibliography.
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