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Managing poverty: Great Britain in comparative perspective
journal contribution
posted on 2014-08-04, 16:05 authored by Jeremy LeamanThis article examines the record of the British Labour Party's flagship policy aimed at reducing poverty and social exclusion in one of the most unequal societies in western Europe. It seeks to show that, despite an increasingly refined official view of poverty - as a multidimensional phenomenon - and despite extensive measures involving educational and labour market reforms, new activation strategies and considerable fiscal transfers, social mobility and persistent poverty remains stubbornly resistant. The article ascribes these disappointing outcomes to the simultaneous pursuit by New Labour of macro-economic policies which promote income inequality.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
Published in
Journal of Contemporary European StudiesVolume
16Issue
1Pages
41 - 56Citation
LEAMAN, J., 2008. Managing poverty: Great Britain in comparative perspective. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 16 (1), pp. 41-56.Publisher
© RoutledgeVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2008Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Contemporary European Studies on 17-05-2008, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14782800801970235.ISSN
1478-2804eISSN
1478-2790Publisher version
Language
- en