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Covering social risks: poverty debate and anti-poverty policy in France in the 1980s
Soziale Risiken absichern: Armutsdebatte und Armutspolitik in Frankreich in den 1980er Jahren
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Abstract This article analyses the influence of public discourse about the social risk of poverty on social policy. It examines the rediscovery of poverty as a political topic and the emergence of an anti-poverty policy in France in the 1980s. Drawing on parliamentary debates as well as on a variety of publi... view more
This article analyses the influence of public discourse about the social risk of poverty on social policy. It examines the rediscovery of poverty as a political topic and the emergence of an anti-poverty policy in France in the 1980s. Drawing on parliamentary debates as well as on a variety of published documents, it answers the question of how welfare associations and political parties described and defined the risk of poverty during the debate, and with which political measures they wanted to combat it. Particular attention shall be paid to the different definitions of poverty. The article argues that formulating the poverty question and defining the meaning of poverty had a great influence on the conception of poverty policy.... view less
Keywords
poverty; risk; social policy; welfare state; combating poverty; discourse; France; twentieth century
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Social Security
Free Keywords
social risks
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 201-222
Journal
Historical Social Research, 41 (2016) 1
Issue topic
Risk as an analytical category: selected studies in the social history of the twentieth century
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.1.201-222
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed