| Contents |
Poverty Matters: Introduction -- What Is Poverty? Conceptualizing, Defining, and Measuring Poverty -- Poverty in Three Anglo Nations: The Dimensions, Character, and Impact of Poverty -- Poverty and the Welfare State: Comparative Contrasts -- Individual-Centered Explanations for Poverty: Biogenetic and "Culture of Poverty" Accounts -- Society-Centered Explanations for Poverty: Systemic and Sociopolitical Accounts -- What Can Be Done? Beyond the Welfare State. |
| 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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 22, 2021). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Olsen, Gregg M. (Gregg Matthew), 1956- Poverty and austerity amid prosperity. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 1487509855 9781487509859 |
| ISBN | 9781487509873 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1487509871 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1487509863 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781487509866 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 773336B8-BC54-4F98-A14A-F33B0E429BF6 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
