Poverty and precarity

Do we have positive duties to help others in need or are our moral duties only negative, focused on not harming them?

Despite its enormous wealth, the United States leads the industrialized world in poverty.

Today the chasm between rich and poor is constantly widening.

The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment.

Sie wachten, wenn andere schliefen und waren übermüdet, wenn andere wach waren.

This book assesses the role of microfinance in the construction of livelihoods for poverty reduction in the Northern Savannah of Ghana, analysing the current microfinance landscape and financial services in the region.

Social problems are endemic to all societies.

Immer weniger Menschen erzielen durch Erwerbsarbeit ein existenzsicherndes Einkommen.

Drawing together multidisciplinary research exploring everyday life in Europe during times of economic crisis, this book explores the ways in which austerity policies are lived and experienced - often alongside other significant social, political and personal change.

Nach seinem Buch über ›Die Marburger Nachtwächter‹ widmet sich Wilhelm Stehling nun ihren Pendants, nämlich den Marburger Turmwächtern.

Based on research that was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness.

In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal.

Arbeitslose werden in modernen Gesellschaften häufig als Überflüssige oder Ausgeschlossene betrachtet.

This book examines the evolution of economic inequality in China from 2002 to 2007; a sequel to Inequality and Public Policy in China (2008).

In the growth of regional identities worldwide, the Mediterranean Basin is emerging as an entity in its own right.

This book provides a one-stop resource for understanding the full dimensions of income inequality in the United States, including chief socioeconomic drivers of inequality and proposals to reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in America.

For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies.

Das Buch bietet eine profunde Einführung in das Phänomen Armut in Deutschland.

Voted one of the Guardian best books of 2014 by Owen Jones.

Este libro ofrece una aproximación a la cuestión de la pobreza desde una perspectiva estrictamente jurídica, que no describe únicamente las consecuencias de la práctica jurídica sobre la pobreza, sino que promueve un análisis más profundo de sus estrechas interconexiones teóricas y, en algunos casos, sobre el modo en que la práctica permite visibilizar esas vinculaciones.

For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies.

Exploring why South Africans rarely use activism to address food insecurity, this study proposes ways to reclaim the power of collective action.

Keiner kennt ihre genaue Zahl: Wohl 150 bis 200 Millionen Menschen suchen Tag für Tag ihr Glück in Chinas aufstrebenden Städten.

Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world.

Beginning this year, federal payment recipients will receive their government benefits through electronic funds transfer (EFT)-- what most of us call direct deposit.

In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse.

For more than three decades, Kathleen Cash has lived and worked with impoverished people, learning about their lives.

In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her mother's partner and the establishment, Martha is now 16 and her time at the convent school is up.

Old Jago is tucked away in the East End of London, conveniently placed so the wealthy and the fortunate can forget all about it and its unlucky residents.

Today's globalised world means offshore finance, airport boutiques and high-speed Internet for some people, against dollar-a-day wages, used t-shirts, and illiteracy for others.

Precise connections between race, poverty, and the condition of America's cities are drawn in this collection of seventeen essays.

A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of US involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s.

Unique in its approach and in the variety of methods and data employed, this book is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth evaluation of the financial system of Thailand, a proto-typical Asian developing economy.

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What do you need to know in order to provide the best possible care for sick children of different faiths?

This handbook takes on one of the most pressing issues of today's society - the question of housing.

Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras, provoking a variety of reactions from rural poor communities worldwide.

Class counts.

The book present the focal attention on the elimination of poverty and to reach to the purpose discusses various factors, plans and perspectives in details : various dimensions discussed by many different economist of world and the variations, analysis of the perspective in context of last five decades development experience of the other countries, Indian experience and its multiface in India.

This handbook initiates fresh debates on poverty and its impact in a constantly changing Global South society.

This book provides a comprehensive picture for understanding the experiences and dynamics of precarious workers' in-work poverty in western China.

Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies.

This book explores the informal (political) patronage relations between the urban poor and service delivery organisations in Mumbai, India.

Why "e;aporophobia"e;-rejection of the poor-is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight itIn this revelatory book, acclaimed political philosopher Adela Cortina makes an unprecedented assertion: the biggest problem facing the world today is the rejection of poor people.

For over twenty-five years, Charles C.

Seit dem Ende des Mittelalters reagierten die Obrigkeiten in ganz Europa zunehmend mit Restriktionen auf Bettler und Vaganten.

'A heart-breaking, inspiring read' ALAN CUMMING'ONE OF THE MOST MOVING ACCOUNTS OF NON-FICTION EVER WRITTEN' GUARDIAN 'If you like Shuggie Bain, then Slum Boy is for you' LEMN SISSAYJohn MacDonald is a four-year-old boy growing up in the slums of Glasgow.