Working Paper
Exclusion, Employment and Opportunity
Fecha
1998Autor
Atkinson, A.B., ed.
Hills, John, ed.
Institución
Resumen
A central theme of the paper is the three-way relationship between poverty,
unemployment and social exclusion. These concepts are related but should not be
equated. In debates about Social Europe, the terms poverty and social exclusion have
on occasion been used interchangeably. Cynics have suggested that the term ‘social
exclusion’ has been adopted by Brussels to appease previous Conservative
governments of the United Kingdom, who believed neither that there was poverty in
Britain nor that poverty was a proper concern of the European Commission.