Poverty and precarity

Point Place stands near the city center of Durban, South Africa.

When viewed from the perspective of those who suffer the consequences of repressive approaches to public security, it is often difficult to distinguish state agents from criminals.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted in India with the multiple objectives of providing employment in a rights-based framework, addressing rural poverty, checking migration, and building rural infrastructure.

People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe.

Naomi Eisenstadt and Carey Oppenheim explore the radical changes in public attitudes and public policy concerning parents and parenting.

A powerful expos of Parisian haute couture Book of the Week, Times Higher EducationFashion is one of the most powerful industries in the world, accounting for 6% of global consumption and growing steadily.

In 1947, grocer Johnny Lombardi went on air for the first time to share the sounds of "e;sunny Italy"e; with the radio listeners of Toronto.

Mit der Einführung des Sozialpasses soll Menschen in Armutslagen die Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Leben ermöglicht werden.

The analysis of urban poverty has traditionally been dominated by economic approaches, often neglecting the social questions arising from poverty.

Peasants are a majority of the world's poor.

This wide-ranging and accessible survey of poverty in America examines every important facet of the issue, from historical and socioeconomic contributors to poverty to programs, policies, and ideas crafted to reduce income inequality and poverty across the USA.

The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it.

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

First published in 1987, Rape on Trial investigates the impact of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act, 1976 and considers the treatment of rape victims by the courts in United Kingdom.

What do digital platforms mean for cinema studies in Canada?

This book is the first of its kind to apply social contextual analysis to the issue of poverty.

This book closely examines controversial claims and beliefs surrounding poverty and anti-poverty programs in the United States.

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.

Soulja Boy, Justin Bieber, and Tavi Gevinson are hardly representative of typical youth experiences, but their origins highlight many of the realities of youth doing independent creative work.

This book uncovers the influence of racial and prejudicial stereotyping during police investigation of suspects from stigmatised communities.

Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise.

This book demonstrates how the various legal efforts employed to eradicate global urban poverty also play a significant role in shaping it.

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.

A layered portraiture of Dalit oppression and ruthless hierarchies in 1980s OdishaSet against the bucolic landscape of undivided Sambalpur, the play follows five Bajnias - professional rural folk performers - whose lives are pushed into a corner by poverty, social discrimination, addiction and illiteracy.

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.

An exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector.

At forty, Sarah Einstein is forced to face her own shortcomings.

Queer Precarity in Higher Education looks at queer scholars pushing against institutional structures, and the queer knowledge that gets pushed out by universities.

Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry?

Many human rights advocates agree that conventional advocacy tools- reporting abuses to international tribunals or shaming the perpetrators of human rights violations-have proven ineffective.

As events highlight deep divisions in attitudes between America and Europe, this is a very timely study of different approaches to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty.

What if the idealized image of American society?

In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years.

Despite its enormous wealth, the United States leads the industrialized world in poverty.

This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative account and analysis of restorative justice, one of the most rapidly growing phenomena in the field of criminology and justice studies.

A pioneering new ''history from below'' of Irish poverty told through the letters of the Catholic poor in Independent Ireland.

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youthtold through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.

This book provides and accessible text and critical analysis of the concepts and delivery of community justice, a focal point in contemporary criminal justice.

Christian authors have argued either for a free market solution to global poverty or for a radical reform of global capitalism but the theological underpinnings of such conclusions are noticeable by their absence.

This book explores whether affluent people in the developed world have stringent responsibilities to help fight poverty abroad.

This book evaluates new programs that aim to reduce minority youth unemployment by improving high school students'' marketable job skills.

What the financial diaries of working-class families reveal about economic stresses, why they happen, and what policies might reduce themDeep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children.