Begging questions street-level economic activity and social policy failure /: street-level economic activity and social policy failure. (1999)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Hartley Dean.
• Other Names: Dean, Hartley, 1949-
• Contents: BEGGING QUESTIONS; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Begging and the contradictions of citizenship; 3. Why begging offends: historical perspectives and continuities; 4. Begging: the global context and international comparisons; 5. Excluded youth and the growth of begging; 6. Easy pickings or hard profession? Begging as an economic activity; 7. Begging in time and space: 'shadow work' and the rural context; 8. The face that begs: street begging scenes and selves' identity work; 9. Word from the street: the perils and pains of researching begging.
• Publisher Details: Bristol, UK : Policy Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 244 pages)
• Subjects: 362.5/0942; 362.570941; Beggars -- England; Beggars -- Government policy -- England; Begging -- England; Begging -- Government policy -- England; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness; Bedelaars; Publiek; Sociale situatie; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy; Great Britain -- Social policy -- Congresses; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847425041; 1847425046
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.