Verfasst von:	Olsen, Gregg M. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Poverty and austerity amid prosperity
Titelzusatz:	a comparative introduction
Verf.angabe:	Gregg M. Olsen
Verlagsort:	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London
Verlag:	University of Toronto Press
E-Jahr:	2021
Jahr:	[2021]
Umfang:	xvi, 288 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen, Diagramme
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-1-4875-0985-9
	978-1-4875-0984-2
Abstract:	"In wealthy nations such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, issues of poverty and homelessness have often been displaced or sidelined by the accelerating number of studies on income inequality and wealth disparity. In Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity, Gregg M. Olsen refocuses our attention on rising levels of poverty and homelessness, suggesting what we can do to address these issues. Highlighting the important differences between Canada, the UK, and the US, this volume explores the broad and narrow ways that poverty and homelessness have been conceptualized, and how this has shaped the way they are defined, measured, and addressed in each country. After a careful examination of poverty in these three countries, the volume draws comparisons with European nations that have been more successful in keeping issues relating to poverty under control. Olsen presents and critically contrasts the two main theoretical traditions, individual versus society, that have emerged to explain poverty and homelessness. Olsen argues that societal approaches to the study of poverty are better equipped to explain the developments unfolding across these nations, and that the eradication of poverty will only happen when the socio-economic system has been seriously overhauled and founded upon economic democracy."--
Schlagwörter:	(s)Armut    / (s)Bedürftigkeit    / (g)USA    / (g)Kanada    / (g)Großbritannien
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Olsen, Gregg M. (Gregg Matthew), 1956-: Poverty and austerity amid prosperity. - Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021
Sach-SW:	Poverty
Geograph. SW:	Canada
	Great Britain
	United States
K10plus-PPN:	1774737612