Ebook: The Global Politics of Poverty in Canada: Development Programs and Democracy, 1964-1979

A history of development initiatives that approached the problem of ending poverty through the active participation of the poor.

Explores how Canadians engaged in informal and formal politics in the course of their everyday lives, locally and transnationally. Langford provides an enduring record of otherwise fleeting anti-poverty programs and their effects: the lived activism and opinions of development workers and ordinary people.