Poverty's Bonds: Power and Agency in the Social Relations of Welfare (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781550770773)

Based on interviews with a sampling of low-income people and those providing services to them, Patric Burman draws from front-line accounts about the modes of giving, receiving and acting in the modern welfare state. The more general concepts -- power, agency, pauperism and poverty -- draw from the later work of Michel Foucault and his students on govermentality, as well as other sources in interpretive and critical social science.

Author: Patrick Burman
ISBN-10: 1550770772
ISBN-13: 9781550770773
Publisher: Thompson Educational Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1996
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.00w x 0.46d