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Social Science Poverty & Homelessness

First World Hunger

Food Security and Welfare Politics

edited by Graham Riches

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Apr 1997
Category
Poverty & Homelessness, Human Rights, Social Services & Welfare, Minority Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551930114
    Publish Date
    Apr 1997
    List Price
    $39.95
  • 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 .'

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