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Poverty and Inequality

Book information

Publisher
Policy Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781447315902, 9781447315919
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
533 kB (545798 bytes)
Series
Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
Pages
74\0
Time added
2022-12-20 21:00:15

Description

Neoliberalism and austerity have led to a growing inequality gap and increasing levels of poverty and social harm. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Chris Jones and Tony Novak look at consequences of poverty and inequality and the challenge they pose to the engaged social work academic and practitioner. There are many studies of poverty that look at competing definitions (and some of the consequences) of poverty in modern society. Here the authors argue that, especially for a profession with a claimed commitment to values based on equality, social justice and meeting human need, poverty and immiserisation impose a requirement on social workers to speak out and not to collude with social policies that make the plight of the impoverished even harder and their lives even worse.

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