What is poverty and how can it be tackled? Taking the Third Way out of its narrow party political context, this book argues that it is necessary to harness work beyond employment in order to pave a Third Way beyond capitalism and socialism. The outcome is a thought-provoking new approach towards combating poverty.Poverty and the Third Way uncovers how New Labour's employment-focussed approach causes, rather than resolves, poverty. Searching for another approach, the authors find the seeds of an alternative 'Third Way' in radical European social democratic and ecological thought which seeks to transcend capitalism and socialism by developing work beyond employment. Exploring the reasons why such an approach is needed and how it can be implemented, the authors transcend the 'there is no alternative' to capitalism school of thought dominant in many advanced economies by providing a clearly marked route map of the way towards a post-capitalist economy.
Author(s): Colin C. Williams, J. Windebank
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 224
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of tables......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
The problem of full-employment......Page 28
The informalisation of the advanced economies......Page 45
Discourses on informal work and their implications......Page 61
Coping capabilities......Page 90
Coping practices......Page 109
Developing household coping capabilities: problems and prospects......Page 126
Towards a 'civil-ised' society: from full-employment to 'full-engagement'......Page 146
The new mutualism: a fourth sector approach......Page 155
The 'working citizen': top-down initiatives......Page 176
Conclusions......Page 195
Bibliography......Page 202
Index......Page 219
