Poverty and precarity

This book captures the thoughts of the Author who worked for more than four decades at the grassroots in India and other countries, observing and watching how Human Development Programmes touch the lives of those who receive the services like primary health care, water and sanitation, school education and reflecting on the managerial dimensions of these programmes.

The first book to study women's poverty over the life course, this wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women--while also considering partnered women and immigrants--in eight wealthy but diverse countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr.

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This book breaks new ground by bringing together recent research into the determinants of marginalization risks for the unemployed and research into new social policies for combating marginalization.

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.

The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.

Debtors' prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form.

First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty.

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime.

Police Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology, to critically examine contemporary police custody in Ireland, what we know about it, how it operates, how it is experienced, and how it might be improved.

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

This book provides a theory and evidence explaining the initial decision of governments to adopt a conditional cash transfer program.

This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences in an academy school based in the UK.

When Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil's Workers' Party soared to power in 2003, he promised to end hunger in the nation.

An examination of poverty dynamics and developmental failure, shifting emphasis from development as control to development as coping strategy.

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.

With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "e;disorderly"e; people continue to occupy public space in many American cities.

A Booklist Best Book of the Year: "e;The definitive history of the life and death of America's most iconic housing project,"e; Chicago's Cabrini-Green (David Simon, creator of The Wire).

Within-country income inequality has risen since the early 1980s in most of the OECD, all transitional, and many developing countries.

A study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the 'good old days' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less.

Über welche schulischen Erfahrungen verfügen mexikanische Familien, deren Lebensbedingungen durch Armut geprägt sind?

The increase in the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty since the end of the Second World War shows a steady trend towards worldwide abolition of capital punishment.

This book interrogates the idea of equity in the context of India's Northeast region.

Reviewers comments on the first editionZygmunt Bauman presents a cogently argued and compelling thesis.

We are, all of us, intimately familiar with inequalities.

At the beginning of the homelessness epidemic in the 1980s, Josephine Ensign was a young, white, Southern, Christian wife, mother, and nurse running a new medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of the South.

Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment.

Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social protection programmes to tackle poverty.

Malawi is one of the poorest countries on the globe.

In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Robin Marie Averbeck offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured liberal thought and action in postwar America.

Three experienced Italian sociologists explore the structural and cultural dimensions of poverty in their country.

This study examines the theme of poverty in the fourth-century sermons of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory Nysson.

Development-caused forced displacement and resettlement (DFDR) is a critical problem on the international development agenda.

Poverty and exclusion are rising challenges in all European countries.

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

Today's globalised world means offshore finance, airport boutiques and high-speed Internet for some people, against dollar-a-day wages, used t-shirts, and illiteracy for others.

Precariousness has become a defining experience in contemporary society, as an inescapable condition and state of being.

Poverty may have always been with us, but it hasn't always been the same.

AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain the spread of HIV/AIDS and deliver a telling critique of AIDS policy.

Every American has the right to safe, decent, and affordable housing.

Lichtenberg argues for a practical and moral approach to reducing poverty, exploring concepts such as altruism and aid.

Homelessness is on the increase in most European states and remains at stubbornly high levels across developed nations.

In many respects, the United States remains a nation of immigrants.

There is a growing acknowledgment amongst professionals and academics that we need to develop new responses to crime.

In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of Michel Foucault to the fields of criminology, law, justice and penology.