Thinking about Poverty

NOTE EDITORE

Thinking about Poverty provides a critical understanding of poverty in the global context: how global structures affect people in Australia and the way policy-makers respond. In the midst of waning public interest, the book fills an important gap in the current public discourse on poverty and covers: the extent of poverty and unprecedented wealth and income inequality across the world, including Australia; why neoliberalism remains at the heart of mainstream global discourse and continues to shape public policy; how a deregulated and speculative global economy creates massive private and public debt, undermining the real economy, employment and wage growth; why neoliberalism still influences national governments to implement further privatisation, deregulation and other neoliberal policies which implement corporate tax cuts, and re-distribution of wealth and income upwards, while at the same time reducing welfare provisions that exacerbate poverty, social disadvantage and inequality; the pivotal role and importance of the welfare state to alleviate some of the excesses of neoliberal capitalism; individualised and structural theories that try to explain the existence of poverty.

SOMMARIO

Poverty, Wealth and the Structures of Global Capitalism Klaus Serr  Looking at Inequality from a Political Economic Perspective Frank Stilwell  The Welfare State and Neoliberalism in Australia: An Historical Overview Benno Engels and Sonia Martin  Un(der)employment, Poverty and the Future of Work after the Global Financial Crisis Andreas Cebulla and Ilan Katz  Theories of Poverty: Power, Ideology and Disadvantage in Australia Eric Porter  Understanding Poverty: Conceptualising Human Needs Klaus Serr  Australia’s Broken Housing System: Homelessness and Poverty amidst Affluence Ben SpiesButcher  Poverty and Disadvantage Among Children and Families Paul Harris  Women’s Poverty: Risks and Experiences of Poverty for Australian Women Ruth Phillips  Living a Life of Value: Constraints Experienced by Older Australians Helen Kimberley  The Impoverishment of a People: The Aboriginal Experience in Australia Sue Green  Living with Mental Illness: Poverty and Psychosis Robert Bland  Poverty and People with a Disability Karen Soldatic and David Sykes  Poverty, Crime and Offenders David Rose

AUTORE

Klaus Serr is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University and has held senior academic posts at Australian Catholic University and Addis Ababa University (AAU) in Ethiopia.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781760021450
• Dimensioni: Ø 0.99 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 304