The Poverty Wars: Reconnecting Research with RealitySaunders argues that as a nation Australia can afford to eliminate financial poverty. The fact that we don't do so is a matter of choice, not affordability--as the experience of other countries demonstrates. In challenging this idea, this book focuses on how looking at poverty differently can help to make a world without poverty a practical reality. |
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
CONTESTING POVERTY | 1 |
A new battleground | 4 |
Key issues and ideas | 11 |
More research? | 13 |
MAPPING THE POVERTY PROFILE | 15 |
Setting broad limits on Australian poverty | 18 |
Mapping the profile of poverty | 24 |
Bad luck | 98 |
Policy failure | 99 |
THE CONSEQUENCES OF POVERTY | 102 |
Alternative coping strategies | 103 |
Making ends meet | 106 |
Supplementing resources | 112 |
Going without | 115 |
Shame | 117 |
The limitations of statistical poverty | 49 |
The meaning of poverty | 53 |
NEW CONCEPTS NEW EVIDENCE | 57 |
Redefining poverty | 58 |
Deprivation capability and exclusion | 62 |
Poverty as accumulated disadvantage | 79 |
THE CAUSES OF POVERTY | 83 |
Structural inequalities | 85 |
Events combinations and accumulations | 89 |
Choice and opportunity | 93 |
Effects on children | 119 |
Health effects | 122 |
Family life and parenting | 125 |
POVERTY AND THE SOCIAL FABRIC | 130 |
Bridging gaps | 132 |
Establishing reconnections | 138 |
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Page 152 - Understanding Poverty and Social Exclusion: Situating Australia Internationally', in R. Fincher and P. Saunders (eds), Creating Unequal futures? Rethinking Poverty, Inequality and Disadvantage, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 38-69.