Poverty and precarity

Making Education Work for the Poor identifies wealth inequality as the gravest threat to the endangered American Dream.

This up-to-date review of the critical issues confronting cities and individuals examines the policy implications of the difficult problems that will affect the future of urban America.

US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the “defining issue of our time.

As jobs disappear and wages flat-line, paid work is an increasingly fragile and unattainable basis for dignified life.

Warum gelingt es unseren Ökonomen nicht, sinnvolle Auswege aus der aktuellen Schuldenkrise zu finden?

Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies.

Leading thinkers and activists discuss the intersection of race and poverty.

'Work hard, have fun, make history' proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon's warehouses.

How has the U.

Of all the New Testament writings Luke-Acts focuses particular attention on rich and poor, possessions and poverty.

Poverty is not simply the result of an individual's characteristics, behaviors or abilities.

Young homeless people are ordinary young people trapped in an extraordinary situation.

This collection of documents contextualizes the ways in which Americans have addressed the evolving challenges of poverty throughout U.

Poverty is not simply the result of an individual's characteristics, behaviors or abilities.

Cash Transfers, for all their notable successes, have been criticised for their limited ability to move poor households to provide sustainable routes out of poverty.

There is either glamourizing of informal sector or a desire to rapidly formalize it, the latter leading to exclusions and disruptions in people's life.

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This collection considers academic research engagements with indigenous, small peasant, urban poor and labour social activism against colonial capitalist dispossession and exploitation in Asia and the Americas.

The need for paid care workers to provide professional, good quality care for those needing daily support continues to grow throughout the world.

The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the ways in which we seek to study and understand them continue to change over time.

Running on empty argues that past failure to address fundamental inequalities in the ability of low-income households to access adequate transport has undermined effective delivery of welfare policies in the US and UK; describes the new policies and initiatives being developed to address this oversight; outlines the case for including transport as an area of social policy inquiry, identifying key factors and uses case study examples of practical initiatives from both sides of the Atlantic to draw lessons for future policy and practice.

This book is designed to help readers navigate through the vast and rapidly growing literature on poverty in urban America.

Often called the 'Jungle', the refugee camp near Calais in Northern France epitomises for many the suffering, uncertainty and violence which characterises the situation of refugees in Europe today.

This book explores Africa''s involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth century.

AACN Core Curriculum for Pediatric High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care, Third Edition, provides content required to deliver the best care for critically ill or injured children.

Focuses on nurturing the emotional health of patients and families to ensure improved outcomesThis innovative clinical practice resource for neonatal nurses embodies family-centered care strategies for optimal outcomes through every phase of the NICU experience.

First published in 1993.

Developing a contemporary account of political friendship and synthesizing it with the radical movement of degrowth, this book provides the ethical grounding and the rationale of an alternative economy which serves human flourishing.

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

This collection offers a timely reassessment of viable ways of addressing poverty across the globe today.

Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers is a classic text for students and practitioners in the child care and protection field which summarises important current thinking on child development and applies it directly to practice.

Many of today's digital platforms are designed according to the same model: they encourage users to create content for fun (a mode of production that some have termed playbour) and to earn points.

Contemporary probation practice is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized.

Unemployment and the state in Britain offers an important and original contribution to understandings of the 1930s.

Im gegenwärtigen Diskurs über Klasse und Klassismus kommt das Milieu, aus dem D Hunter stammt, nicht vor.

More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.

This book discusses the fundamental constraints that need to be overcome to move the economy of Pakistan to higher growth.

At a time of growing wealth and income inequality in the United States during recent decades, Class and Inequality in the United States examines the nature and sources of social inequality based on class, race, and gender relations throughout the course of U.

The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy is a reassessment of the languages and methodologies used, throughout the nineteenth century, for discussing extreme hunger in Britain.

Focuses on the concept phase of the project to resolve complex challenges in the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana.

When Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil's Workers' Party soared to power in 2003, he promised to end hunger in the nation.

What kinds of experiences do we have with the poor and the oppressed around the world?

This book investigates one of the most pervasive forms of modern slavery: bonded labour, whereby labour is linked with a credit agreement, leaving a debtor bound to repay their debt through long-term servitude.

Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts provides a vivid portrait and appraisal of how the lives of poor people are disrupted or helped by the judicial system, from the lowest to the highest courts.

This collection of essays provides a state-of-the-art examination of the concepts and methods that can be used to understand poverty dynamics.