Poverty knowledge in South Africa : a social history of human science, 1855 - 2005
Grace Davie, Queens College, City University of New York
| Year of publication: |
2015 ; 1. pbk. ed.
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| Authors: | Davie, Grace |
| Publisher: |
New York, NY : Cambridge Univ. Press |
| Subject: | Armut | Poverty | Messung | Measurement | Verbraucherpreisindex | Consumer price index | Gini-Koeffizient | Gini coefficient | Armutsbekämpfung | Poverty reduction | Sozialgeschichte | Social history | Südafrika | South Africa | Sozioökonomischer Wandel | Bekämpfung | Geschichte 1855-2005 | 1855-2005 |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [loc.gov] ; Description [loc.gov] ; Description [loc.gov] ; Description [loc.gov] |
| Extent: | X, 334 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references Introduction: the poverty question in South AfricaBefore poverty measurement : conjuring worlds without wantThe human sciences in interwar South africa : William Macmillan, I. D. MacCrone, and the Carnegie CommissionThe minimum standards moment : Edward Batson and the poverty datum line (PDL)Rethinking governmentality : urban planning, rural betterment, and the apartheid stateAgitation through quantification : white student activists in the era of black consciousnessFrom people's power to corporate power : poverty research and the transition to democracyBaselines and battle lines: social surveying after apartheid. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-19875-2 ; 978-1-107-55173-2 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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