Social Science Poverty & Homelessness
First World Hunger
Food Security and Welfare Politics
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 1997
- Category
- Poverty & Homelessness, Human Rights, Social Services & Welfare, Minority Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551930114
- Publish Date
- Apr 1997
- List Price
- $39.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442602595
- Publish Date
- Apr 1997
- List Price
- $24.95
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span style=""font-weight: bold;"">Published Under the Garamond Imprint
Hunger and undernutrition are widespread in many advanced capitalist societies. Hunger is now publicly acceptable despite undermining common standards of human decency and abro-gating the basic right of people to adequate food as guaranteed in domestic and international law.
span style=""font-style: italic;"">First World Hunger examines this crisis and the politics and practice of food security and welfare reform (1980-1995) in five "liberal" welfare states (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US). Through national case studies it explores the nature and causes of hunger, its neglect by governments, the breakdown of public welfare, the depoliticization of hunger as a human rights issue and the failure of New Right policies and charitable emergency relief to guarantee household food security. Alternative policies and strategies of public action directed at the abolition of hunger are discussed.
The publication of span style=""font-style: italic;"">First World Hunger is a timely and important contribution to the debate about hunger and poverty in advanced market economies.
About the author
GRAHAM RICHES is co-founder of the Canadian Review of Social Policy . He has also co-authored Spending is Choosing: Restraint and Growth in Saskatchewan\s Personal Social Services 1966-77 .'
