An End to Poverty?

by Gareth Stedman Jones

Book Overview

In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed the bringing of poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the Revolution in France and the promise of the new international economy, Paine and Condorcet argued that all citizens could be protected against the predictable hazards of poverty and insecurity. This was the founding moment of social democracy. But fear and anger greeted this challenge to age-old religious and political attitudes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861977298
• ISBN13: 9781861977298
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
• Length: 292 Pages