Poverty and precarity

A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabitand the insidious ways this realm harms us all.

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"e;This is a book ripped from the headlines, from Black Lives Matter to recently thriving downtowns stripped of office workers and service workers.

A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society.

Summary of Evicted by Michael Desmond | Includes Analysis Preview:Matthew Desmond s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a sociological study of evictions, housing, and homelessness in Milwaukee.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Tankard Book Award winner Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Tankard Book Award winner Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia.

In Break the Caste, George Gerharz unmasks common American misperceptions of poverty, inequality, and social mobility.

"e;The poems in Copia are about what is and what is almost-gone, what is in limbo and what won't give way, what is almost at rock bottom but still and always brimming with the possibility of miracle.

"e;The poems in Copia are about what is and what is almost-gone, what is in limbo and what won't give way, what is almost at rock bottom but still and always brimming with the possibility of miracle.

This book provides unique insights into the challenges and potential solutions to alleviate poverty in western China.

"e;Early in Sergio Chejfec's The Dark, the nameless narrator describes his disorientation when looking over a landscape as 'the vertigo of simple things.

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.

An extraordinary meditation on experience, writing, and space, My Two Worlds is about a writer lost in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, searching for a park.

Craig Smith was good looking, charismatic, outgoing a gifted musician whose songs were recorded by some of the biggest names in entertainment.

Growing up in a prosperous neighborhood, B.

Eleven-year-old Lisa becomes her mother's primary support when they face the prospect of homelessness.

In this mix of history, journalism, political analysis, and first-person accounts, former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd, and investigative journalist Lori Culbert, offer a portrait of one of North Americas poorest, most drug-challenged neighbourhoods: Vancouvers Downtown Eastside.

This report marks the first stage of AFSUN,s goal of expanding knowledge about urban food systems and experiences of household food insecurity in secondary African cities.

This report argues that it is essential to understand the dynamics of the informal food retail sector because of its vital role in ensuring greater access to food by the urban poor.

The nadir of Zimbabwe,s political and economic crisis in 2008 coincided with the implementation of a baseline household food security survey in Harare by AFSUN.

Effective and transparent government budgeting is vital to any democracy.

In a poverty-stricken neighbourhood wedged between the city and the sea, a father and son struggle to keep their heads above water.

'There are children in Holbeck without crayons.

The "e;living wage"e; is an old idea that has experienced a dramatic resurgence of political popularity in recent years.

Housing is a fundamental necessity, and yet it is generally acknowledged that we have a housing crisis in the UK.

Housing is a fundamental necessity, and yet it is generally acknowledged that we have a housing crisis in the UK.

Poverty, and calls to end it, date back centuries.

Poverty, and calls to end it, date back centuries.

My Bondage and My Freedom - Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written with the aid of Frederick Douglass, a diffusion of his earlier Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, discussing in extra element his transition from bondage to liberty.

This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and povertyis the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency?

The winner of 3 book awards as best book in it's category, Bent Hope was born out of Tim Huff's first twenty years of unique and extensive work among homeless and street-involved youth and adults, in one of North America's largest urban centres-Toronto, Canada.

This thought-provoking and challenging book is about sex and profits.

Capitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy.

Capitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy.

The failure of attempts to tackle global poverty have bred cynicism and 'compassion fatigue'.

The failure of attempts to tackle global poverty have bred cynicism and 'compassion fatigue'.

This is the new, fully updated, first paperback edition of Emma Guest's acclaimed book that explores how the AIDS crisis has devastated the world's poorest continent, and shows how families, charities and governments are responding to the next wave of the crisis - millions of orphans.

Why do so many people worldwide suffer hunger and poverty when there is enough food and other resources globally to prevent it?

"e;Each of these essays is a sharpened weapon for the battles looming large on the horizon.

"e;Millions of foreclosed homes and abandoned buildings on one hand; millions of Americans desperate for decent shelter on the other.

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.

Structural adjustment programmes are the largest single cause of increased poverty, inequality and hunger in developing countries.

Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water.

In the growth of regional identities worldwide, the Mediterranean Basin is emerging as an entity in its own right.

This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty.

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

This book brings together two of today's leading concerns in development policy - the urgent need to prioritize poverty reduction and the particular circumstances of indigenous peoples in both developing and industrialized countries.

In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade.

The researchers who have written this volume are clear not only that mass poverty is still the leading humanitarian crisis in developing countries, but that, if effective policies are to be put in place, the national elites who control governments and economies need to be convinced of both the reasons why reducing poverty is in their own and the national interest, and that public action can make a difference.