Poverty and precarity

Urban and Rural Poverty: Prevalence, Reduction Strategies and Challenges opens with a review of urban poverty in Bangladesh, analysing socioeconomic aspects of the marginal poor under three headings: migration and the urban poor, household characteristics, and neighborhood characteristics.

In this ground-breaking study, Sophie Body-Gendrot provides a comparative analysis of the growing problem of new forms of poverty and social marginalisation in contemporary advanced societies.

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

The Supreme Court's Role in Mass Incarceration illuminates the role of the United States Supreme Court's criminal procedure revolution as a contributing factor to the rise in U.

We are used to thinking about inequality within countries--about rich Americans versus poor Americans, for instance.

Microcredit programmes, long considered efficient development tools, now face unprecedented crises in a number of countries.

Living with a chronic illness can have a significant psychological impact on a child and his or her family, and it is essential that this aspect of their care is not overlooked.

Poverty is an unnecessary form of human degradation and badly conceived economics.

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.

Social problems are endemic to all societies.

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

In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP).

A touching four-year chronicle of five girls coming of age in impoverished rural Maine and learning to forge their own paths through life's struggles.

This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case studies: Kosovo, Iraq and Libya.

This book aims to provide a critical analysis of both political and professional developments in policy and practice relating to non-custodial penalties, taking full account of recent developments and the creation of a National Probation Service in 2002.

In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom.

Der Aufstieg der extremen Rechten in vielen europäischen Ländern des letzten Jahrzehnts hat die Forschung vor neue Herausforderungen gestellt.

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 22 begins with papers of widespread interest on the impact of the Great Recession.

An innovative study of charity practices in Saudi Arabia, focusing on ordinary Saudis who provide charity to the poor and needy.

Die polemischen Schriften in diesem Band handeln von der vielschichtigen Beziehung zwischen Geschichte, Philosophie und Politik.

Our knowledge and awareness of mental health has never been greater.

Originally published in 1981 The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850-1950 is an edited collection on the history and future prospects of the modern welfare state.

An inside look at how community service organizations really workVolunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime.

"e;Progress and Poverty is not so much a book as an event.

A harrowing look at violence among Argentina's urban poorArquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities.

Through the efforts of increasingly global and media-aware NGOs, people in the west are bombarded with images of poverty, suffering and inequality.

After an exhausting day of hard labour, Ben finds oblivion in the seedy bars and clubs of River Road anything to leave his cockroach-infested rooms and ignore the reality of living paycheck to paycheck.

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.

Contributors examine the ethical issues surrounding microfinance, including questions about exploitation, human rights, and efforts to promote global justice.

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an "e;unconditional war"e; on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Americans.

Can grassroots social movements impact the financial system?

Poverty in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens was a markedly different concept to that with which we are familiar today.

One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today.

Few government programs in the United States are as controversial as those designed to help the poor.

Malawi is one of the poorest countries on the globe.

When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten years on its success in making Britain 'a more equal society'.

A study of the poor''s movements in response to the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics.

This book covers a wide range of issues related to poverty and inequality in the context of development planning in India.

Globalization is characterised by persistent poverty and growing inequality.

For nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work.

First Edition Designated a Doody's Core Title and Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!