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9781865083421: Creating Unequal Futures?: Rethinking poverty, inequality and disadvantage
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ISBN 10: 1865083429 ISBN 13: 9781865083421
Editorial: Routledge, 2001

Sinopsis

'This is an important and powerful book because of the rigour of the analysis, the good sense of the innovative strategies for action by government, business and civil society, and the concern throughout for social justice.' - John Langmore, Director, UN Division for Social Policy and Development

One in six Australian kids live below the poverty line. Among the twenty-five leading industrialised countries, Australia has the fifth highest child poverty rate. This is a useful, if stark, indicator of the extent of long-term disadvantage in this country.

Creating Unequal Futures? brings together eight of Australia's leading social scientists to introduce the reader to the processes which create and sustain persistent patterns of poverty and disadvantage. Although the contributors use different approaches, their research leads to a united call for a rethinking away from the prevailing 'gloom and doom' presentations of Australian material life. They signal pathways out of the dilemmas that bind people to poverty and disadvantage. If followed, those pathways will guide us to a future characterised by less inequality. If ignored, we may further entrench patterns of disadvantage and risk creating unequal futures for all Australians.

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RUTH FINCHER is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne. In the early 1990s she was a Research Manager in the Bureau of Immigration Research, and has also worked at McGill and McMaster Universities in Canada. She recently co-edited Australian Poverty: Then and Now (1998) and Cities of Difference (1998).

PETER SAUNDERS is the Director of the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales. He has also worked as a consultant for the OECD, the IMF, the International Social Security Association and the UN's Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

The contributors are John Buchanan, Dr Boyd Hunter, Peter Putnis, Peter Travers, Ian Watson, Peter Whiteford and Maryann Wulff.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1865083429
ISBN 13 
9781865083421
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
272
Editor
Saunders Peter
Contacto del fabricante
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com

Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24
München
80331
Alemania

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