Poverty - Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism (Hardcover)

While poverty persists as a major social problem, Canadians are increasingly framing their concerns over poverty and its consequences as issues of human rights and citizenship. This timely volume examines the ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution-building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country. Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism makes a major contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the area of social rights and Charter advocacy and analysis. This book is unique to Canadian legal scholarship and will be important to scholars and researchers studying poverty; it will also be of considerable value to advocates and policy makers.