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Creating unequal futures? : rethinking poverty, inequality and disadvantage / edited by Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders.
- Title
- Creating unequal futures? : rethinking poverty, inequality and disadvantage / edited by Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders.
- Publication
- Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HC610.P6 C74 2001 | Off-site | |
| Text | Request in advance | HC610.P6 C74x 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 251 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Brings together eight social policy analysts to introduce the reader to a major social policy issue: the processes which create and sustain persistent patterns of poverty and disadvantage. Although the contributors come from different disciplines, their research leads to a united call for a rethinking away from doom and gloom.
- Subject
- Note
- "An Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Research Project funded under the ARC Learned Academies' Scheme for Special Projects"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-246) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. The complex contexts of Australian inequality / Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders -- 2. Understanding poverty and social exclusion: situating Australia internationally / Peter Whiteford -- 3. Popular discourses and images of poverty and welfare in the news media / Peter Putnis -- 4. Inequality and the futures of our children / Peter Travers -- 5. Tackling poverty among indigenous Australians / Boyd Hunter -- 6. Moving in and out of disadvantage: population mobility and Australian places / Ruth Fincher and Maryann Wulff -- 7. Beyond impoverished visions of the labour market / Ian Watson and John Buchanan.
- ISBN
- 1865083429 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 46880474
- SCSB-10129127
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library