Mutual aid and self-help: Coping strategies for excluded communities

by Danny Burns

As the welfare system is restructured and state support is reduced, the concepts of mutual aid and self-help are being promoted as a means of addressing problems of poverty and social exclusion. A range of informal structures, including activities such as credit unions, economic exchange systems, and shared childcare, offer solutions to the problems of budget constraints, as well as confronting the breakdown in social cohesion and providing a cushion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861341229
• ISBN13: 9781861341228
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.2"