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Creating unequal futures? : rethinking poverty, inequality and disadvantage
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Creating unequal futures? : rethinking poverty, inequality and disadvantage

Author: Peter Saunders; Ruth Fincher
Publisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume brings together eight social policy analysts to introduce the reader to a major social policy issue: the processes which create and sustain persistent patterns of poverty and  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Saunders; Ruth Fincher
ISBN: 1865083429 9781865083421
OCLC Number: 46880474
Description: xv, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Contents: List of figuresList of tablesContributorsPreface1. The complex contents of Australian inequality - Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders2. Understanding poverty and social exclusion: Situating Australia internationally - Peter Whiteford3. Popular discourses and images of poverty and welfare in the news media - Peter Putnis4. Inequality and the futures of our children - Peter Travers5. Tackling poverty among indigenous Australians - Boyd Hunter6. Moving in and out of disadvantage: population mobility and Australian places - Ruth Fincher and Maryann Wulff7. Beyond impoverished visions of the labour market - Ian Watson and John Buchanan References
Responsibility: edited by Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders.

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