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Tackling inequalities : where are we now and what can be done?
- Title
- Tackling inequalities : where are we now and what can be done? / ed. by Christina Pantazis and David Gordon.
- Publication
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2000.
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- Description
- XVI-239 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- A systematic critique of the current government's policies to tackle inequalities is provided in this book. It examines the level of inequalities and the policy options to tackle crime, health, education, housing and social exclusion.
- Series Statement
- Studies in poverty, inequality and social exclusion
- Uniform Title
- Studies in poverty, inequality, and social exclusion
- Subject
- Since 1945
- Equality > Government policy > Great Britain
- Poverty > Great Britain
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Economic policy
- Equality > Government policy
- Poverty
- Social policy
- Armut
- Soziale Ungleichheit
- Statistik
- Missbrauch
- Thatcherismus
- Sociale ongelijkheid
- Overheidsbeleid
- Égalité > Politique publique > Grande-Bretagne
- Pauvreté > Grande-Bretagne
- Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale > 1979-1997
- Grande-Bretagne > Politique économique > 1945- ..
- Inégalité sociale > Grande-Bretagne
- Great Britain > Social policy > 1979-
- Great Britain > Economic policy > 1945-
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale > 1997- ..
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction / Christina Pantazis -- 2. Inequalities in income, wealth and standard of living in Britain / David Gordon -- 3. Inequalities in employment: problems of spatial divergence / Ivan Turok -- 4. Educational inequalities and Education Action Zones / Ian Plewis -- 5. How can we end inequalities in housing? / Alan Murie -- 6. Tackling inequalities in crime and social harm / Christina Pantazis -- 7. Poverty across the life-course and health / George Davey Smith and David Gordon -- 8. Inequalities in health service provision: how research findings are ignored / Walter Barker and Colin Chalmers -- 9. A mortality league table for Cabinet ministers? / Danny Dorling -- 10. Ending world poverty in the 21st century / Peter Townsend
- ISBN
- 1861341466
- 9781861341464
- OCLC
- ocn493129110
- 493129110
- SCSB-9018467
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library