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Autore: | Saunders Peter <1950 August 30-> |
Titolo: | Down and out : poverty and exclusion in Australia |
Pubblicazione: | Bristol, U.K. ; ; Portland, Ore., : Policy Press, 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.50994 |
Soggetto topico: | Australia -- Economic conditions |
Income distribution -- Australia | |
Poverty -- Australia | |
Poverty - Australia | |
Poor - Australia | |
Marginality, Social - Australia | |
Business & Economics | |
Economic History | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; one; Introduction and overview; two; Income poverty; three; Beyond low income: economic resources, financial hardship and poverty; four; Experiencing poverty: the voices of poverty and disadvantage; five; Identifying the essentials of life; six; Measuring deprivation; seven; A new poverty measure; eight; Defining social exclusion and the social inclusion agenda; nine; Identifying social exclusion; ten; Conclusions and implications; References; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Drawing on the author's extensive research expertise and his links with welfare practitioners , this landmark study provides the first comprehensive assessment of the nature and associations between the three main forms of social disadvantage in Australia: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Down and out |
ISBN: | 1-4473-0215-X |
1-84742-840-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910820399603321 |
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