Trapped in Poverty?
Labour-Market Decisions in Low-Income Households
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 1991
Book
Hardback
358 pages
978-0-415-06867-3 (ISBN)
Description
How do people on low incomes make decisions about employment and benefit claims? Interview material and economic analysis combine with new theories of the relationship between moral and economic reasoning.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
639 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-06867-3 (9780415068673)
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Additional editions
James Davidson | Bill Jordan | Helen Kay
Trapped in Poverty?
Labour-Market Decisions in Low-Income Households
E-Book
09/2013
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
James Davidson | Bill Jordan | Helen Kay
Trapped in Poverty?
Labour-Market Decisions in Low-Income Households
E-Book
09/2013
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Bill Jordan Reader in Social Studies at Sheffield University., Simon James Senior Lecturer in Economics at Exeter University., Helen Kay Researcher for the Scottish Office., Marcus Redley Research Assistant at Exeter University.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Contested territory; Chapter 3 The study, the people and the methods; Chapter 4 The 'breadwinners'; Chapter 5 'Fitting it all in'; Chapter 6 Joint decision-making?; Chapter 7 Community, kinship and housing; Chapter 8 Lone-parent households; Chapter 9 Conclusions: trapped in poverty?;