Poverty and precarity

This book examines the specific manifestations and causes of housing precarity across a diverse range of geographic settings and housing types.

This book examines the specific manifestations and causes of housing precarity across a diverse range of geographic settings and housing types.

Globally, 1.

Globally, 1.

The contribution of Western education to the creation of an African-educated elite is well documented.

World Poverty provides an authoritative and balanced examination of the many facets of world poverty and the policy issues surrounding it.

A collection of in-depth essays focused on the health issues facing the poorest populations in the United States as it relates to the common good of all Americans.

Als Cotter am Strand von Tarifa einen ertrunkenen Marokkaner findet, lässt ihn das nicht mehr los.

In a 2004 study by the Annie E.

As Jeff Singleton shows, the rapid expansion of unemployment relief in the early 1930s generated pressures which led to the first federal welfare programs.

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

During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants.

A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed$2.

A lack of socially determined needs, such as nourishment, education, and healthcare, can become deprivation indicators that are used to measure poverty.

Los jóvenes voluntarios del Cuerpo de Paz de Estados Unidos son los grandes protagonistas de este libro.

The poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks.

This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian literature (1837-1860) responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice.

This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian literature (1837-1860) responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice.

First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families?

First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families?

Much pro-life ministry is focused on encouraging women to say yes to life rather than terminate their pregnancies.

Hasta la década de 1980, las desigualdades se pensaban y se sufrían como desigualdades de clase.

This detailed book is a resource for students, practitioners, and leaders interested in how the major world religions have understood poverty and responded to the poor.

Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United States-the most affluent country in the world-this book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it.

A lack of socially determined needs, such as nourishment, education, and healthcare, can become deprivation indicators that are used to measure poverty.

Um Armut zu bekämpfen, scheint es naheliegend, mehr Geld zu fordern: mehr Geld in Gestalt von Sozialstaatsausgaben, für Entwicklungshilfe etc.

Ageing is a timebomb.

Ageing is a timebomb.

The gap between personal and formal politics has been widening globally and locally.

The gap between personal and formal politics has been widening globally and locally.

This volume focuses on the black family in the United States and the social forces and issues that affect it, including education, healthcare, racism, poverty, and politics.

This title was first published in 2000: This collection of papers reviews the theory, method and policy relevance of post-war poverty research.

Peasants are a majority of the world's poor.

First published in 1997.

Arbeit für alle und dazu noch existenzsichernd ist ein hoher Anspruch, der in Zeiten knapper werdender Förderungen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit nicht an Bedeutung verliert, sondern kreativ verfolgt werden sollte.

¿Cómo es vivir en los márgenes?

A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised.

Fernando Pineda Ochoa construye una vida fincada en el compromiso politico.

Tener presente lo que heredamos del siglo pasado puede ayudarnos a comprender mejor nuestra realidad social y sobre todo a situarnos en el espacio público actual de México, señala Jorge Rendón Alarcón.

La obra de Isabel Núñez refleja algunas estrategias que emplea el Estado moderno neoliberal como forma de control y de acumulación por despojo que viven las mujeres y los hombres jóvenes en el barrio de Tepito.

Profesores y estudiantes de posgrado en filosofia de universidades mexicanas nos hemos dado a la tarea de reflexionar y dar inteligibilidad a los hechos de violencia politica que sacuden hoy en dia al pais.

No sabemos exactamente a qué tono corresponde el "color de la miseria" como se llama en las primeras páginas de esta novela al color hollín.

La comida no es algo aislado, sino un producto de las relaciones sociales, del sistema económico y hasta de los valores de la sociedad.

Francisco, profeta y pastor, desenmascara las causas de la pobreza desacralizando estructuras injustas que han sido divinizadas, y llama a la misericordia como otro modo de justicia.

Hoy vivimos una verdadera contrarrevolución.

La asociación del Estado de derecho y del Estado social debía permitir construir una "sociedad de semejantes" donde, a falta de una estricta igualdad, todos pudieran ser reconocidos como personas independientes y resguardadas contra los avatares de la existencia (desempleo, vejez, enfermedad, accidentes de trabajo, entre otras); "protegidos", en una palabra.

First published in 1997.

COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals around the world during the pandemic.