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Using a case study of Glasgow, UK, this chapter discusses the design and delivery of anti-poverty activities in a post-industrial left-wing city located within a national liberal welfare model. Focusing on the multi-level architecture of the British welfare state, the chapter draws attention to the local arrangement and institutional relations between organisations engaged in employment, social service and broadly speaking, anti-poverty work in the city. As well as outlining the role of public and non-public sector organisations, Bennettexplores issues of partnership working, competing initiatives and the politics of poverty. This chapter outlines the levers local actors utilise to deliver anti-poverty services and reflects on multi-level tensions, competing agendas and conflicting ways of working.
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Bennett, H. (2016). Anti-poverty Activities in a Liberal Welfare Model: Local Levers and Multi-level Tensions in Glasgow, UK. In: Johansson, H., Panican, A. (eds) Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems. Work and Welfare in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53190-2_6
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