Guides: APS 428: Poverty: Problems & Perspectives: Politics and Poverty

su:(poor OR poverty) AND (politic* OR policy OR provinces OR welfare) AND Canad*

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Ebooks

Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights by Diana Tietjens Meyers (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014
This essay collection analyzes how human agency relates to poverty and human rights respectively, as well as how agency mediates issues concerning poverty and social and economic human rights. No other collection of philosophical papers focuses onthe diverse ways poverty impacts the agency of the poor, the reasons why poverty alleviation schemes should also promote the agency of beneficiaries, and the fitness of the human rights regime to secure both economic development and free agency.
Poverty in Canada : implications for health and quality of life
Publication Date: 2011
This volume considers a range of issues that will be of great interest to a variety of audiences - those studying or working in Community and Developmental Psychology, Education, Health Promotion, Health Studies and Health Sciences, Medicine and Nursing, Political Science and Policy Studies, Public Health, Social Work, and Sociology, as well as the general public.
Combating poverty : Quebec's pursuit of a distinctive welfare state
Publication Date: 2017
This volume offers a detailed survey of social and labour market policies since the early 2000s in Canada's four largest provinces--Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta--showing the full extent to which Canada's major provinces have chosen diverging policy paths. Quebec has succeeded in emulating European and even Nordic social democratic levels of poverty for some groups, while poverty rates and patterns in the other provinces remain close to the high levels characteristic of the North American liberal, market-oriented regime.
Differences that matter : social policy and the working poor in the United States and Canada by Dan Zuberi
Publication Date: 2006-04-25
Zuberi shows exactly where and how the social policies that distinguish the Canadian welfare state from the U.S. version make a difference in protecting Canadian workers from the hardships that burden low-wage workers in the United States.

A People's War on Poverty: urban politics and grassroots activists in Houston by Wesley G. Phelps
Publication Date: 2014-03-15
In A People's War on Poverty, Wesley G. Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. He argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy and the rights of citizenship that historians have largely overlooked.
Orwell, Politics, and Power by Craig L. Carr
ISBN: 9781441109828
Publication Date: 2010-10-14
This analysis of the distinctive political writings of George Orwell focuses on his concept of political power and its relevance today.
Rio Plus Ten : politics, poverty and the environment by Neil Middleton
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
In this book, the authors look at the agenda established since the original Rio conference in 1992 and cover the events of the intervening years: global warming and the unfolding arguments over climate change, energy, water and sanitation, patents and many other issues. They examine what progress-- if any--has been made. Offering a critical analysis of the links between neo-liberal economics and transnational organisations, the authors expose the poverty of so-called international protocols and resolutions which claim to offer solutions. They show how, in virtually every case, these resolutions remain part of the problem of continuing poverty and environmental degradation in the non-Western world.