… In particular, we hypothesize that whether poverty will be reproduced under the
conditions of well-functioning markets depends on the social characteristics of the
cleavages that separate the poor from the not-so-poor and on the social characteristics of
markets. We focus on two sets of socially achieved distinctions, ethnicity and gender, which
can be used to mark differences in economic status. … own perspective, inspired by
Bourdieu, combines a focus on the objective problems of structural unemployment with an …

This book contains the proceedings from a conference on poverty in Easte Central and
Southern Europe. The conference was held in Budapest in April 1 The authors discuss the
relations between market transition in post-communist co tries on the one hand and poverty,
the emergence of an underclass, poverty in et minorities, and the ethnicisation and
feminisation of poverty on the other hand. chapters (the first and last) are devoted to
theoretical issues, the remaining chapt are papers discussing poverty in different countries …