Wealth, Poverty and Welfare

Wealth, Poverty and Welfare

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Wealth, Poverty and Welfare

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Skills-based Sociology

Wealth, Poverty and Welfare

Sharon Kane | Mark Kirby

Social Science / Sociology / General

This book explores debates about poverty, wealth and the welfare state from a sociological perspective, explaining the concepts of poverty and welfare, the pattern of their distribution and the causes of continuing poverty. The origin, purpose and future of the welfare state is also discussed, setting British material within a global framework. As with other titles in the series, the text is laced with activities, exercises and sample essay questions.

SHARON KANE is employed as a domestic violence policy co-ordinator at Leechmore Training Centre, Sunderland, having worked as a lecturer in sociology at Middlesbrough College, Sunderland.

MARK KIRBY is a teacher of sociology at City and Islington College, London. He has taught in further education and in sixth form colleges for twelve years and is the author of Stratification and Differentiation, also in the Skills-Based Sociology series.
SHARON KANE is employed as a domestic violence policy co-ordinator at Leechmore Training Centre, Sunderland, having worked as a lecturer in sociology at Middlesbrough College, Sunderland.

MARK KIRBY is a teacher of sociology at City and Islington College, London. He has taught in further education and in sixth form colleges for twelve years and is the author of Stratification and Differentiation, also in the Skills-Based Sociology series.


Publication Date: 10 December 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Imprint: Red Globe Press
ISBN-13: 9780333719336
Format: Paperback softback
Page Count: 211
Weight (oz): 14.4

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