Poverty Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism

Recent years have seen the retrenchment of Canadian social programs and the restructuring of the welfare state along neo-liberal lines. Social programs at both the federal and the provincial levels have been cut back, eliminated, or recast in exclusionary and punitive forms, Poverty, Rights, Social Citizenship,and Legal Activism responds to these changes by examining this ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country.Young, Margot is the author of 'Poverty Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism', published 2007 under ISBN 9780774812870 and ISBN 0774812877.