Understanding Inequality, Poverty and Wealth - Policies and Prospects

This major textbook provides students with a critical understanding of poverty and social exclusion in relation to wealth, rather than as separate from it.

List of contents

Introduction ~ Tess Ridge and Sharon Wright; Wealth ~ Karen Rowlingson; Poverty and social exclusion ~ Pete Alcock; Explaining poverty, Social exclusion and inequality: towards a structural approach ~ Gerry Mooney; Global inequality, poverty and wealth ~ Nicola Yeates; Spatial divisions of poverty and wealth ~ Danny Dorling and Dimitris Ballas; Gender, poverty and wealth ~ Gill Scott; The intersection of ethnicity, Poverty and wealth ~ Akwugo Emejulu; Childhood and youth ~ Petra Hoelscher; Poverty and financial inequality in later life ~ Jay Ginn; Health and disability ~ Mary Shaw, Ben Wheeler, Richard Mitchell and Danny Dorling; State approaches to wealth ~ Michael Orton; State approaches to poverty and social exclusion ~ Tess Ridge and Sharon Wright; Conclusions: policies and prospects ~ Tess Ridge and Sharon Wright.

About the author

Tess Ridge is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Bath. She is a trustee of the Child Poverty Action Group and Honorary Secretary of the Social Policy Association.
Dr Sharon Wright is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Stirling. Sharon is Managing Co-Editor of the journal "Social Policy & Society" and Co-convenor of the Scottish Social Policy Network.

Summary

This major textbook provides students with a critical understanding of poverty and social exclusion in relation to wealth, rather than as separate from it.

Product details

• Authors: Tess (EDT)/ Wright Ridge
• Assisted by: Tess Ridge (Editor), Tess (Department of Social and Policy Sciences Ridge (Editor), Sharon Wright (Editor), Sharon (Department of Applied Social Science Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2008
• EAN: 9781861349156
• ISBN: 978-1-86134-915-6
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Understanding Welfare; Understanding Welfare: Social; Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice; Understanding Welfare
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education