Poverty and precarity

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.

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.

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.

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.

This book focuses on the provision of basic social services - in particular, access to education, health and water supplies - as the central building blocks of any human development strategy.

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

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 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.

This book seeks to advance the emerging field of international poverty law.

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

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

This book focuses on the provision of basic social services - in particular, access to education, health and water supplies - as the central building blocks of any human development strategy.

This volume provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in order to raise the necessary financial resources to make the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals a reality by 2015.

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.

Young people and contradictions of inclusion critically assesses policies addressing young people's transitions from school to employment.

Child poverty and the well-being of children is an important policy issue throughout the industrialised world.

The issue of homelessness has become extremely important in policy debates during the 1990s.

Seen through the eyes of parents, mainly mothers, "e;City survivors"e; tells the eye-opening story of what it is like to bring up children in troubled city neighbourhoods.

New Zealand has experienced both sweeping economic and social reform and growing poverty and income inequality in the last twenty years.

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'.

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.

This collection of essays focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty.

Extensive welfare, law and policy reforms characterised the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century.

Cheap, plentiful food is an American tradition.

Written with great empathy and Rauf's trademark humour, The Great (Food) Bank Heist is a moving story that gives a child's-eye view of the increasing problem of food poverty.