Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781551303239
- 155130323X
Description: xiii, 424 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- pt. I. Defining and measuring poverty in Canada
- ch. 1. Poverty and the modern welfare state
- ch. 2. Canadian perspectives on poverty
- ch. 3. Who is poor in Canada?
- ch. 4. Making sense of poverty : social inequality and social exclusion
- pt. II. The experience of poverty
- ch. 5. Pathways to poverty
- ch. 6. The lived experience of poverty
- ch. 7. Interactions with the social assistance and health care systems
- pt. III. Poverty, health, and quality of life
- ch. 8. Poverty and health
- ch. 9. Poverty and health : mechanisms and pathways
- ch. 10. Poverty and quality of life
- pt. IV. Public policy and poverty
- ch. 11. The politics of poverty
- ch. 12. Canadian public policy and poverty in international perspective
- ch. 13. Poverty and the future of the Canadian welfare state.
Control Number: 695638
Publisher: Toronto : CSPI, [2007]