First World Hunger : : Food Security and Welfare Politics / / ed. by Graham Riches.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Craig, Gary,; Dowler, Elizabeth,; Poppendieck, Janet,; Riches, Graham,; Uttler, Stephen,; Wilson, John,
• HerausgeberIn: Riches, Graham,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Published Under the Garamond Imprint Hunger and undernutrition are widespread in many advanced capitalist societies. Hunger is now publicly acceptable despite undermining common standards of human decency and abro-gating the basic right of people to adequate food as guaranteed in domestic and international law. First World Hunger examines this crisis and the politics and practice of food security and welfare reform (1980-1995) in five "liberal" welfare states (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US). Through national case studies it explores the nature and causes of hunger, its neglect by governments, the breakdown of public welfare, the depoliticization of hunger as a human rights issue and the failure of New Right policies and charitable emergency relief to guarantee household food security. Alternative policies and strategies of public action directed at the abolition of hunger are discussed. The publication of First World Hunger is a timely and important contribution to the debate about hunger and poverty in advanced market economies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Charts -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Hunger and the Welfare State: Comparative Perspectives -- 2. Australia: Lucky Country / Hungry Silence -- 3. Hunger in Canada: Abandoning the Right to Food -- 4. Hunger in New Zealand: A Question of Rights? -- 5. Let Them Eat Cake! Poverty, Hunger and the UK State -- 6. The USA: Hunger in the Land of Plenty -- 7. Hunger, Welfare and Food Security: Emerging Strategies -- References -- Index