1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001452340403321

Titolo

Sporopollenins : proceedings of a symposium held at the Geology Department, Imperial College, london, 23-25 September, 1970 / edited by J. Brooks, P.R. Grant, Marjorie Muir, P. van Gijzel and G. Shaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Academic Press, 1971

ISBN

0-12-135750-3

Descrizione fisica

x, 718 p. ; 25 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910219863503321

Autore

Knight Barry

Titolo

Rethinking poverty : what makes a good society? / / Barry Knight

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Policy Press, 2017

Bristol, UK : , : Policy Press, , 2017

©2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 171 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Shorts Insights

Disciplina

362.57

Soggetti

Poverty

Poverty - Public opinion

Equality - Sociological aspects

Social justice

Social policy

London (England) History 1951-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

1. The narrative on poverty has failed --2. The society we have --3. The society we want --4. How do we achieve a good society without poverty? --5. Who does what to produce a good society? --6. Towards transformation --Index.

Sommario/riassunto

There is a demand for a new narrative to enable us to escape from the crisis in our society. This book argues that we need to start with the society we want, rather than framing poverty as a problem to be solved. It calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing austerity, under-resourced organisations and a lack of social solidarity. Based on a research programme carried out by the Webb Memorial Trust involving leading organisations, academics, community activists, children, and surveys of more than 12,000 people living in poverty, a key theme is power which shows that the way forward is to increase people’s sense of agency in building the society that they want.