Charity and poverty in advanced welfare states

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    • Parsell, Cameron
    • Clarke, Andrew (Sociologist)
    • Perales, Francisco (Sociologist)

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Charity and poverty in advanced welfare states

Cameron Parsell, Andrew Clarke and Francisco Perales

(Routledge advances in health and social policy)

Routledge, 2022

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Will appeal to a wide international readership interested in the welfare state, social policy, poverty, and charity, by developing transferable conceptual contributions and undertaking cross-national comparative analyses. Conceptualises the role of charity to people who are poor in wealthy countries. Outlines a set of practical and conceptual ideas for how charity can be re-imagined to contribute to justice in an unjust society.

Table of Contents

1. The endurance of charity. 2. The practice of charity. 3. Neoliberalising charity. 4. Creating conditions for charity. 5. Cultivating charity. 6. Representing charity. 7. The meaning of helping. 8. The meaning of being helped. 9. Transforming charity.

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