In Western Europe the notion of social exclusion is rapidly gaining acceptance. Developed originally in France but spreading in both academic and political Anglo-Saxon debates, this notion refers to the new social problems resulting from deep societal and economic restructuring associated with the emerging global economy.
This book investigates the notion of social exclusion as a new way to approach issues such as the `new poverty' - long-term unemployment, precariousness, social polarization and disintegration. Particular attention is paid both to the global relevance of an approach in terms of social exclusion, and also its value compared with more conventional approaches in terms of poverty and deprivation. It is shown that social exclusion goes beyond these by explicitly embracing the relational as well as the distributional aspects of poverty - and emphasizes processes.
The authors explore the specific forms of social exclusion in the ongoing processes of globalization, deregulation, the crisis of the welfare state and the rise of individualism. Successive chapters provide an analytical and operational framework which focuses not so much on social exclusion as a state of economic and social deprivation as on the dynamic processes that create such a state and push individuals into precariousness, vulnerability and, finally, exclusion. This book emphasizes that what has been happening to exclusion (as the new social question) is a fundamental question which needs to be posed about the present pattern of development shaped by market forces on a global scale.
Poverty and Exclusion in a Global World is an excellent analysis of the variable conditions of social exlusions in the contemporary world. The analysis and data that the book provides, coupled with a will to policy formation that seeks to avoid the traps it outlines, is long overdue...The book should be a useful addition to the 'losers' section on any reading lists on 'the consequences of globalisation'.' - Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Defining Exclusion
Towards an Analytical and Operational Framework
Unemployment, Precarious Jobs and Exclusion
Exclusion in Developed Countries
Exclusion in Developing Countries
Globalization and Exclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Author/Name Index
Subject Index
A.S. BHALLA is David Thomson Senior Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK. Previously he was Special Adviser to the President of International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa; a senior staff member of the International Labour Office in Geneva and a founder member of its World Employment Programme. Dr. Bhalla has held research and academic positions at the Universities of Yale, Manchester and Oxford.
FRÉDÉRIC LAPEYRE is a member of the Institute of Development Studies at the Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain Le Neuve, Belgium. He has worked as a consultant to the European Commission, the International Labour Office and the European Trade Union Confederation. He has written several articles on development and globalization issues.
Description
In Western Europe the notion of social exclusion is rapidly gaining acceptance. Developed originally in France but spreading in both academic and political Anglo-Saxon debates, this notion refers to the new social problems resulting from deep societal and economic restructuring associated with the emerging global economy.
This book investigates the notion of social exclusion as a new way to approach issues such as the `new poverty' - long-term unemployment, precariousness, social polarization and disintegration. Particular attention is paid both to the global relevance of an approach in terms of social exclusion, and also its value compared with more conventional approaches in terms of poverty and deprivation. It is shown that social exclusion goes beyond these by explicitly embracing the relational as well as the distributional aspects of poverty - and emphasizes processes.
The authors explore the specific forms of social exclusion in the ongoing processes of globalization, deregulation, the crisis of the welfare state and the rise of individualism. Successive chapters provide an analytical and operational framework which focuses not so much on social exclusion as a state of economic and social deprivation as on the dynamic processes that create such a state and push individuals into precariousness, vulnerability and, finally, exclusion. This book emphasizes that what has been happening to exclusion (as the new social question) is a fundamental question which needs to be posed about the present pattern of development shaped by market forces on a global scale.
Reviews
Poverty and Exclusion in a Global World is an excellent analysis of the variable conditions of social exlusions in the contemporary world. The analysis and data that the book provides, coupled with a will to policy formation that seeks to avoid the traps it outlines, is long overdue...The book should be a useful addition to the 'losers' section on any reading lists on 'the consequences of globalisation'.' - Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Defining Exclusion
Towards an Analytical and Operational Framework
Unemployment, Precarious Jobs and Exclusion
Exclusion in Developed Countries
Exclusion in Developing Countries
Globalization and Exclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Author/Name Index
Subject Index
Authors
A.S. BHALLA is David Thomson Senior Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK. Previously he was Special Adviser to the President of International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa; a senior staff member of the International Labour Office in Geneva and a founder member of its World Employment Programme. Dr. Bhalla has held research and academic positions at the Universities of Yale, Manchester and Oxford.
FRÉDÉRIC LAPEYRE is a member of the Institute of Development Studies at the Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain Le Neuve, Belgium. He has worked as a consultant to the European Commission, the International Labour Office and the European Trade Union Confederation. He has written several articles on development and globalization issues.
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