by Francisco Candel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401450891
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«La nueva pobreza» is the sociological essay by Francisco Candel, published in 1989 by Plaza & Janés in paperback (317 pages, in Spanish).
The essay analyzes the evolution of poverty in Spain from postwar rationing to the consumer society, with attention to urban and rural Catalonia. Candel addresses the economic crisis of the seventies, unemployment, marginalization and charity, and traverses the «ruta del hambre» as testimony to the new exclusion.
First edition of the Tribuna collection by Plaza & Janés, number 94. Original title in Catalan: «La nova pobresa».
For readers of essays and sociology interested in the social history of Spain, inequality and the consequences of economic crises.
Francisco Candel Tortajada, usually known as well as Paco Candel, was a Valencian-born writer and journalist who lived most of his life in Barcelona.
