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Margot Young - Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism - 9780774812870 - V9780774812870
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Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism

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Description for Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism Hardback. While poverty persists as a major social problem, Canadians are increasingly framing their concerns over poverty and its consequences as issues of human rights and citizenship. This volume examines the ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution-building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country. Editor(s): Young, Margot; Boyd, Susan B.; Brodsky, Gwen; Day, Shelagh. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFA; JPVH; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 712.

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 the ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution-building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country.

The essays in this volume investigate current trends in social, political, and legal anti-poverty activism. They challenge prevailing assumptions about the role of governments and the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
Law and Society
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774812870
SKU
V9780774812870
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Ref
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About Margot Young
Margot Young is an associate professor and Susan Boyd holds the Chair in Feminist Legal Studies in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. Gwen Brodsky and Shelagh Day are directors of the Poverty and Human Rights Centre in Vancouver.

Reviews for Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism
Dry legal scholarship is rarely as infused with compassion as it is in this book. The 18 individually authored chapters are written by legal scholars and practitioners, social activists and professionals who are waging an ongoing struggle against Canadian poverty. …the chapters are thoughtful, insightful, and often compelling as well as Canadian-centric.
A. F. Johnson, Bishop's University
Choice, ... Read more

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