Poverty and the Third Way: 8 (Routledge Studies in Human Geography) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415257255 ISBN 13: 9780415257251

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415257255
• ISBN 13: 9780415257251
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226
• Editor: Williams Colin C, Williams Colin C., Windebank Jan