Sweet Charity?  -  Janet Poppendieck

Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

KORTE INHOUD

In this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when stopgap charitable efforts replace consistent public policy, and poverty continues to grow.In Sweet Charity?, Poppendieck travels the country to work in soup kitchens and "gleaning" centers, reporting from the frontlines of ...
1999 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1999 Uitgever: Penguin Classics 368 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0140245561 ISBN-13: 9780140245561