Poverty and precarity

Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise.

Unser Leben: Das ist ein sehr komplexes Thema.

Did you know that over 700 million people live on less than $2 a day?

Der Aufstieg der AfD, die Ausschreitungen von Neonazis und die Unterstützung, die sie aus dem Staatsapparat erhalten, empören Millionen Menschen.

Der Aufstieg der AfD, die Ausschreitungen von Neonazis und die Unterstützung, die sie aus dem Staatsapparat erhalten, empören Millionen Menschen.

Die Schlachten des 20.

Die Schlachten des 20.

Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence ';The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.

This book addresses key issues related to teaching pupils from disadvantaged and impoverished backgrounds and provides a valuable reference and pedagogical tool for teachers and teacher educators.

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.

Imagine un año sin gastar dinero, la asombrosa realidad de vivir sin nuestro recurso más importante.

La gente que vive en las comunidades desfavorecidas de todo el Reino Unido se siente incomprendida e ignorada.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Sunday Times Literary Awards'One of the best works of narrative non-fiction to emerge from the country in years.

Una de las pensadoras sociales norteamericanas más agudas y originales decide ocultarse como trabajadora no cualificada para revelar el lado oscuro de la prosperidad estadounidense, recogiendo sus experiencias en trabajos poco remunerados, como parte de un trabajo de investigación sobre las condiciones laborales de las clases pobres de Estados Unidos.

Entre 1980 y 2008 los ingresos del 90% de los estadounidenses crecieron un mísero 1%, mientras que los de los grandes multimillonarios (el 0,01% de la población) crecían un 403%.

Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history.

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.

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses.

Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory.

Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory.

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.

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses.

Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history.

In 1947, grocer Johnny Lombardi went on air for the first time to share the sounds of "e;sunny Italy"e; with the radio listeners of Toronto.

In 1947, grocer Johnny Lombardi went on air for the first time to share the sounds of sunny Italy with the radio listeners of Toronto.

In this incisive and practical book, H.

Sinnvolle und sinnstiftende Arbeitsplätze für ausgesteuerte Langzeiterwerbslose zu schaffen und die mittel- und längerfristige Integration in den Ersten Arbeitsmarkt - so lautet das erfolgreich realisierte Ziel der St.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023'Important and beautifully lyrical' THE TIMES'A fierce, urgent memoir' AMY-JANE BEERTo grow up in rural poverty is to fight for life before you can walk.

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

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023 A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EvictedThe United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced democracy.

A Modern Slavery is a book written by Henry Woodd Nevinson, first published in 1906.

Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult child power dynamics.

This book provides an accessible introduction to food inequality in the United States, offering readers a broad survey of the most important topics and issues and exploring how economics, culture, and public policy have shaped our current food landscape.

This authoritative reference work explores the factors driving the much-debated increase in economic inequality in U.

50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty.

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

The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape.

An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic world of street urchins, capoeiristas, drug dealers, and wise teachers.

Is popular anger about rising inequality propelling China toward a "e;social volcano"e; of protest activity and instability that could challenge Chinese Communist Party rule?

Manufactured Insecurityis the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents.

Public discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting.

From 2007 to 2012, almost five percent of American adults-about ten million people-lost their homes because they could not make mortgage payments.

The Asia and Pacific region continued to grow despite a difficult external global environment.

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has made advances in narrowing gender gaps in its labor market.

The global financial crisis emerged at an alarming rate.

Providing access to clean water continues to be a challenge for governments.

Development Asia examines Asia's widening inequality from many different perspectives.

A 2013 Best Translated Book Award FinalistWhen he reads about a mysterious explosion in the distant countryside, the narrator's thoughts turn to his disappeared childhood friend, M, who was abducted from his home years ago, during a spasm of political violence in Buenos Aires in the early 1970s.

440 pages, 603 images, with 31 contributorsMedical Response to Child Sexual Abuse: A Resource for Professionals Working with Children and Families features a completely pediatric focus as a part of the Sexual Assault line and adds an illustrative multimedia component.

Inclusive growth needs to be achieved to reduce poverty and other disparities and raise economic growth.