Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774812885 ISBN 13 : 9780774812887

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2008

Synopsis

Recent years have seen the retrenchment of Canadian social programs and the restructuring of the welfare state along neo-liberal lines. Social programs 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. It challenges prevailing assumptions about the role of governments and the methods of accountability in the field of social and economic justice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774812885
• ISBN 13: 9780774812887
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Éditeur: Young Margot, Boyd Susan, Brodsky Gwen, Day Shelagh
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