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E-raamat: Poverty and the Third Way [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

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What is poverty and how can it be tackled? Taking the Third Way out of its narrow party political context, this book argues that it is necessary to harness work beyond employment in order to pave a Third Way beyond capitalism and socialism. The outcome is a thought-provoking new approach towards combating poverty.
Poverty and the Third Way uncovers how New Labour's employment-focussed approach causes, rather than resolves, poverty. Searching for another approach, the authors find the seeds of an alternative 'Third Way' in radical European social democratic and ecological thought which seeks to transcend capitalism and socialism by developing work beyond employment. Exploring the reasons why such an approach is needed and how it can be implemented, the authors transcend the 'there is no alternative' to capitalism school of thought dominant in many advanced economies by providing a clearly marked route map of the way towards a post-capitalist economy.


What is poverty and how can it be tackled? Taking the Third Way out of its narrow political context, this thought-provoking new approach argues that we need to harness work beyond employment to pave a Third Way beyond capitalism and socialism.
List of tables
vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(16)
PART I Rationales for a third way approach
The problem of full-employment
17(17)
The informalisation of the advanced economies
34(16)
Discourses on informal work and their implications
50(29)
PART II Examining poverty: household coping capabilities and practices
Coping capabilities
79(19)
Coping practices
98(17)
Developing household coping capabilities: problems and prospects
115(20)
PART III Tackling poverty: a third way approach
Towards a 'civil-ised' society: from full-employment to `full-engagement'
135(9)
The new mutualism: a fourth sector approach
144(21)
The `working citizen': top-down initiatives
165(19)
Conclusions 184(7)
Bibliography 191(17)
Index 208


Colin C. Williams is reader in Economic Geography at the University of Leicester. Jan Windebank is Senior Lecturer in French Studies and Associate Fellow of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) at the University of Sheffield.