Poverty and precarity

This book analyses the key livelihood and governance challenges that the urban poor experience while navigating public spaces in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great, unresolved question of how to overcome persistent ghetto poverty.

This book is about the courageous decision taken by the Government of a Ceara, Brazil, to tackle the painful economic and social conflict caused by the enormous gap between rich and poor.

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

»Nachts rollten unsere Lkw auf ein paar dunkle Gebäude zu.

Digital technology has revolutionized modern television but what exactly has changed?

Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance.

Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics.

MARIE JAHODA (1907–2001), in Wien geborene Sozialforscherin, wurde vor allem als Koautorin der Studie "DIE ARBEITSLOSEN VON MARIENTHAL" bekannt.

The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment.

Explores the ways that many influential ethical traditions wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty.

A classic account of low-wage workers' organization that the US Department of Labor calls one of the "e;100 books that has shaped work in America.

This book examines the concept of poverty and develops a theory which describes poverty in opposition to freedom rather than wealth.

The first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, arguing that governments can improve energy access for their citizens through appropriate policy design.

Focusing on the English- and French-language networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Kyle Conway draws on the CBC/Radio Canada rich print and video archive as well as journalists' accounts of their reporting to revisit the story of the accords and the furor they stirred in both French and English Canada.

An examination of the ways that digital technologies play an increasingly important role in the lives of precarious workers, far beyond the gig economy apps like Uber and Lyft.

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.

With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades.

Over the past quarter-century China has seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, prompting a shift in China's development strategy and the adoption of an array of new policies to redistribute income, promote shared growth, and establish a social safety net.

When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the "e;tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt.

In a provocative assessment of American poverty and policy from 1950 to the present, Frank Stricker examines an era that has seen serious discussion about the causes of poverty and unemployment.

Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of No Poverty focuses on Sustainable Development Goal number one (SDG#1): to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

The federal election campaign of 2005-06 offered the usual mix of lofty rhetoric, competing interests, and skullduggery.

Ein Kommentar von Praktikern für Praktiker!

Social cohesion is one of the declared objectives of the European Union and, with some 16% of EU citizens at risk of poverty, the need to fight poverty and social exclusion continues as a major challenge.

In 2000, the first social agenda in the history of the European Union was launched, and the endeavor to combat poverty came increasingly to the forefront as a specific area for EU policy cooperation and coordination.

In the five years since the first edition of Injustice there have been devastating increases in poverty, hunger and destitution in the UK.

Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?

In this clear and intelligent book, Thomas Lines examines the role that global policies have played in creating a crisis of rural poverty.

Extreme poverty exhausts institutions, depletes resources, weakens leadership, and ultimately contributes to rising insecurity and conflict.

Since the group of least developed countries (LDCs) was identified in 1971, only five countries have graduated from the group, all of which are characterised by small size or population.

This new edition of American Poverty in a New Era of Reform provides a comprehensive examination of the extent, causes, effects, and costs of American poverty nearly ten years after the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996.

One of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C.

Originally published in 1987 Modern German Sociology is a collection of essays containing sociological work published in German since World War II.

Peer mentoring is an increasingly popular criminal justice intervention in custodial and community settings.

This ground-breaking work traces developments in poor relief from the mid-fourteenth century to the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601.

This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion.

The industrial food system has created a crisis in the United States that is characterized by abundant food for privileged citizens and ';food deserts' for the historically marginalized.

Warum kann davon gesprochen werden, dass Frauen von Armut überdurchschnittlichbetroffen sind?

The first interdisciplinary reference to cover the socioeconomic and political history, the movements, and the changing face of poverty in the United States.

This collection of essays addresses the lack of shelter-one of the most basic elements of human adaptation-now experienced by many Americans.

This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies.

Armes DeutschlandEs ist ein erbitterter Kampf ausgebrochen in Deutschland.

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global South.

This book highlights the value and skill of horticultural work through stories of food cultivation.

Countries worldwide are attempting difficult transitions from state-planned to market economies.

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

Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely forgotten.