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Poverty

Name: Poverty
Author: Margot Young... [et al.]
ISBN: 9780774812870

by Margot Young... [et al.]

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Overview

Recent years have seen the retrenchment of Canadian social programs and the restructuring of the welfare state along neo-liberal lines. Social programs at both the federal and the provincial levels have been cut back, eliminated, or recast in exclusionary and punitive forms, Poverty, Rights, Social Citizenship,and Legal Activism responds to these changes by examining this ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country.

The essay in this volume investigate current trends in social, political, and legal anti-poverty activism. They challenge prevailing assumptions about the role of governmentsand methods of a accountability in the field of social and economic justice. Through their analysis of rights advocacy and the Interconnecredness of law and politics, the contributors also demonstrate that the fight for social and economic justice is vibrant and of critical importance.