Poverty's Bonds Power And Agency in the Social Relations of Welfare

Based on interviews with a sampling of low-income people and those providing services to them, Patric Burman draws from front-line accounts about the modes of giving, receiving and acting in the modern welfare state. The more general concepts -- power, agency, pauperism and poverty -- draw from the later work of Michel Foucault and his students on govermentality, as well as other sources in interpretive and critical social science.Burman, Patrick is the author of 'Poverty's Bonds Power And Agency in the Social Relations of Welfare', published 1996 under ISBN 9781550770773 and ISBN 1550770772.