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- Reputation of author
Sales of first edition: over ,000 paperback copies
Rewritten throughout and now incorporating new debates on social exclusion, the underclass, poverty dynamics and local antipoverty strategies
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Context of Poverty
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Definition and Measurement
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Social Divisions and Poverty
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The Policy Framework
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About this book
This second edition of an important text incorporates new evidence and arguments regarding poverty in Britain. Comprehensive and accessible, it deals with the problems of definition, measurement and distribution of poverty and analyses the full range of debates about its causes and its possible solution. It is essential reading for students of social policy, sociology, social work and related social sciences.
About the author
PETE ALCOCK is Professor of Social Policy and Administration at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Social Policy in Britain (second edition) and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Social Policy, The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy and International Social Policy. He has been Chair of the Social Policy Association and is now Chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Social Policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Poverty
Authors: Pete Alcock
Editors: Jo Campling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25666-2
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Pete Alcock 1997
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 285
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Social Policy