Poverty and precarity

Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history.

100 Under $100: One Hundred Tools for Empowering Global Women is a comprehensive look at effective, low-cost solutions for helping women in the Global South out of poverty.

Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery-working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle.

For more than three decades, Kathleen Cash has lived and worked with impoverished people, learning about their lives.

Following Labour's defeat at the polls in 2015, and at time when the Party is attempting to redefine its meaning, values and even identity, there is an urgent need for fresh thinking.

40 Millionen Menschen in Sklaverei.

Leading thinkers and activists discuss the intersection of race and poverty.

Why are poor Americans so patriotic?

Women and Poverty analyzes the social and structural factors that contribute to, and legitimize, class inequity and women's poverty.

Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory.

Most information about the incomes of people in Britain today, such as provided by official statistics, tells us how much inequality there is or how many poor people there are in a given year and compares those numbers with the corresponding statistics from the previous year.

'There are children in Holbeck without crayons.

The subject of peace economics and its ramifications are comprehensively and deeply attacked in this book.

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.

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.

This volume discusses the current state of knowledge on the conceptual understanding of inequality.

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

This book critiques how impoverished communities are represented by politicians, the media, academics and policy makers - and how our understanding of these neighbourhoods is, often misleadingly, shaped by these stories.

In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country.

________________'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history.

Spätestens mit der Einführung der sogenannten "Hartz-Reformen", der "Agenda 2010" und der "Politik des Förderns und Forderns" ist die Kritik am deutschen Sozialstaat unüberhörbar geworden.

The movement of humans across borders is increasing exponentially'some for benign reasons, others nefarious, including terrorism, human trafficking, and people smuggling.

The poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks.

Viewing poverty as a condition that is fed and renewed on a daily basis by social and economic structures, this book focuses on the ways in which poor residents can be helped to improve their own situations, their living conditions, and the central city itself.

Ten years ago there were no faith-based units in prisons outside South America.

This book looks at human capital development and provides an explanation for why cognitive development varies among ethnic groups.

The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations Wealth is central to the American pursuit of happiness and is an overriding measure of well-being.

Can grassroots social movements impact the financial system?

A two-volume set intended for readers interested in understanding the political and cultural underpinnings of socioeconomic inequality across the globe, Inequality around the World examines key drivers and shapers of inequality at the local, national, and international level.

Tracking technologies are now ubiquitous and are part of many people's everyday lives.

Evidence for the negative effects of segregation and concentrated poverty in America's cities now exists in abundance; poor and underrepresented communities in segregated urban housing markets suffer diminished outcomes in education, economic mobility, political participation, and physical and psychological health.

This volume analyzes the experiences of developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, and examines how they might catch up.

Focuses on the concept phase of the project to resolve complex challenges in the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana.

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

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

In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty.

Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music.

Why does poverty persist?

Urban Africa is undergoing a transformation unlike anywhere else in the world, as unprecedented numbers of people migrate to rapidly expanding cities.

Die USA sind das reichste Land der Welt – und doch gibt es hier mehr Armut als in jeder anderen fortgeschrittenen Demokratie: Würden die Betroffenen einen eigenen Staat gründen, hätte dieser eine größere Bevölkerung als Australien oder Venezuela.

"e;Political clientelism"e; is a term used to characterize the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favors.

The goal of Riots in the Cities, editors Silvia Marina Arrom and Servando Ortoll contend, is to encourage Latin Americanists to rethink standard notions of urban politics before the populist era.

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

Das Buch bietet eine profunde Einführung in das Phänomen Armut in Deutschland.

Cash Transfers, for all their notable successes, have been criticised for their limited ability to move poor households to provide sustainable routes out of poverty.