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Jacob H. Hollander

 
9781330684252: The Abolition of Poverty (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Beyond the Paycheck reframes poverty as economic insufficiency, not simply a personal shortcoming.

This book examines what really keeps people in need and how public aid, private relief, and broader economic forces interact. It blends historical analysis with statistical findings to show how poverty persists across countries and over time.

The book grounds its argument in concrete terms and familiar problems. It asks what "poverty" should mean when a lack of food, clothing, and shelter meets larger questions of health, education, and opportunity. By tracing the links between pauperism, economic inequality, and social policy, it explains why the weakest workers often struggle despite broader prosperity. The discussion includes how wages, living standards, and unemployment shape everyday life, and why organized labor can help but cannot by itself end poverty.
  • Clarifies the difference between pauperism and poverty and explains who counts as the real poor.
  • Cites historical studies and surveys to illustrate the scale of economic need.
  • Explores how wage levels, cost of living, and unemployment interact in different eras and places.
  • Looks at trade unions, wages, and the broader questions of how labor markets affect well-being.
Ideal for readers seeking a clear, data-informed view of poverty and the economic forces that sustain it.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Abolition of Poverty

The purpose of this little essay is to set forth the Heedlessness of poverty. Like preventable disease, economic want persists as a social ill only because men do not desire sufficiently that it shall cease. There is still much mumbling of old commonplaces, and it has seemed worth while to emphasize anew this definite corollary of modern political economy, that the essential causes of poverty are determinable and its considerable presence unnecessary.

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