POVERTY AND INEQUALITY (Second Edition)

Book Details

• Author: Edward Royce

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• Edition: 2016

• ISBN: 9788131607817

• Pages: 392

• Cover: Hardcover

About the Book

Poverty and Power challenges the conventional belief that poverty in the United States is caused by individual shortcomings such as a lack of intelligence, determination, or skills. Instead, Edward Royce presents poverty as a deeply rooted structural problem, emphasizing the failings within social, political, cultural, and economic systems that perpetuate inequality. This book provides a compelling framework for understanding how systemic forces create and maintain poverty, effectively stacking the balance of power against the poor.

In its second edition, the book is thoroughly revised with updated statistical data and fresh analysis covering the recent recession, the Obama presidency, political polarization, the rise of the Tea Party, the Occupy Movement, and emerging anti-poverty initiatives. Organized into three parts, it first examines individualistic theories of poverty, then provides a structural perspective highlighting four interrelated systems, and finally discusses ten structural obstacles that sustain poverty.

Written in a clear and thought-provoking style, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, public policy, and social justice, offering a deep insight into the social realities of poverty and the power structures that shape it in modern America.