| Law and Poverty: The Legal System and Poverty Reduction Contributor(s): Williams, Lucy (Editor), Comparative Research Programme on Povert (Editor), Kjønstad, Asbjørn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1842773976 ISBN-13: 9781842773970 Publisher: Zed Books OUR PRICE: $45.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2003 Annotation: This book exposes previously ignored ways in which the law is central to the causes and structure of poverty, and explores new possibilities for using the law to alleviate poverty. It covers international human rights conventions, constitutional and statutory provisions, social insurance and social assistance law, and ranges over a wide terrain. Law is examined at its most general, as legally constructed--looking at the ways in which specific laws can either exacerbate poverty or enshrine a human right not to be poor--and in establishing specific rights entitlements that bear on reducing poverty. Finally, and most concretely, it examines the specific role of law in areas like tackling child labor, reducing economic discrimination against women, and the freedom of employees to organize. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice |
| Dewey: 344.031 |
| LCCN: 2003046214 |
| Series: Crop International Studies in Poverty Research |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.78" W x 8.08" (0.89 lbs) 303 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume brings to light a variety of previously ignored ways in which law can be central to the causes and structure of poverty, and explores new legal arenas and theories that could form the basis of a transformative use of law in order to reduce poverty. The contributions range over a wide terrain, including international human rights conventions, domestic constitutional and statutory provisions, and the law relating to social insurance and social assistance. Poverty is examined as being in certain respects legally constructed (i.e. there are ways in which specific laws create and exacerbate poverty). Also explored is the role of law in establishing specific rights or entitlements that contribute to reducing poverty, in particular social security provision and litigation as a tool for combating poverty. Finally, and most concretely, the volume examines divergent approaches to legal initiatives addressing specific aspects of poverty such as tackling child labour, reducing economic discrimination against women, and protecting the freedom of employees to organize collectively. Throughout the volume is an acute awareness of the contradictory ways in which law can impact on poverty, and on the reality of poverty as not simply a domestic issue, but a cross-border and global challenge. |