pauperisation
Descent into poverty
Pauperisation is the process of making or becoming poor.
The term appears in economic and political writing to describe systemic impoverishment: the pauperisation of the working class, policies that led to mass pauperisation.
Also spelled pauperization.
The verb is pauperise or pauperize.
Extreme lack of money
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- beggaryExtreme, abject poverty
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- privationLack of necessities
want · neediness · bankruptcy · insolvency · debt · starvation · malnutrition · homelessness
Lacking permanent residence
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- welfareComfort and prosperity
- slumsImpoverished, crowded districts
- shantytownsImpoverished informal settlements
soup kitchens · food banks · begging · panhandling · vagrancy · urban decay · ghettos · favelas
Unequal distribution of resources
- wealth gapEconomic inequality measure
- class divideGap between economic strata
- stratificationDivision into distinct levels
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
exploitation · disenfranchisement · economic disparity · underclass · working poor · precariat · wage stagnation · deindustrialization
Labored effort against resistance
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
difficulty · misfortune · tribulation · affliction · distress · desperation · survival · subsistence
penury
Extreme lack of money
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- beggaryExtreme, abject poverty
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
privation · want · neediness · bankruptcy · insolvency · debt · starvation · malnutrition · homelessness · squalor
homelessness
Lacking permanent residence
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- welfareComfort and prosperity
- slumsImpoverished, crowded districts
shantytowns · soup kitchens · food banks · begging · panhandling · vagrancy · urban decay · ghettos · favelas · breadlines
inequality
Unequal distribution of resources
- wealth gapEconomic inequality measure
- class divideGap between economic strata
- stratificationDivision into distinct levels
marginalization · exploitation · disenfranchisement · economic disparity · underclass · working poor · precariat · wage stagnation · deindustrialization · neoliberalism
struggle
Labored effort against resistance
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
austerity · difficulty · misfortune · tribulation · affliction · distress · desperation · survival · subsistence · hand-to-mouth
pauperisationenrichment
Improvement through addition
wealth creation · prosperity · affluence · wealth accumulation · gentrification
pauperisationupward mobility
Rising social or economic status
ennoblement · elevation · betterment · empowerment · rise
poverty, impoverished, pauper, impoverish, impoverishment, pauperism, pauperized, impoverishing, impoverishes