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Poverty and the Third Way (Routledge Studies in Human Geography, 8)

By Colin C. Williams , J. Windebank

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0415257255, 0203167465, 9786610195459, 9780415257251, 9780203283028, 9780203167465, 6610195455
LCC
HD2341 .W485 2003
Open Library ID
OL3568177M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
665 kB (680726 bytes)
Pages
224\225
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

What is poverty and how can it be tackled? Taking the Third Way out of its narrow party political context, this book argues that it is necessary to harness work beyond employment in order to pave a Third Way beyond capitalism and socialism. The outcome is a thought-provoking new approach towards combating poverty.Poverty and the Third Way uncovers how New Labour's employment-focussed approach causes, rather than resolves, poverty. Searching for another approach, the authors find the seeds of an alternative 'Third Way' in radical European social democratic and ecological thought which seeks to transcend capitalism and socialism by developing work beyond employment. Exploring the reasons why such an approach is needed and how it can be implemented, the authors transcend the 'there is no alternative' to capitalism school of thought dominant in many advanced economies by providing a clearly marked route map of the way towards a post-capitalist economy.

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