Poverty and precarity

First published in 1993.

First published in 1993.

This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post World War II period and continuing up through the present.

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

This new edition of American Poverty in a New Era of Reform provides a comprehensive examination of the extent, causes, effects, and costs of American poverty nearly ten years after the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996.

This new edition of American Poverty in a New Era of Reform provides a comprehensive examination of the extent, causes, effects, and costs of American poverty nearly ten years after the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996.

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.

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.

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

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

The Political Logic of Poverty Relief places electoral politics and institutional design at the core of poverty alleviation.

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

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

Contributors examine the ethical issues surrounding microfinance, including questions about exploitation, human rights, and efforts to promote global justice.

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

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

Contributors examine the ethical issues surrounding microfinance, including questions about exploitation, human rights, and efforts to promote global justice.

This book discusses the fundamental constraints that need to be overcome to move the economy of Pakistan to higher growth.

In this comparative, historical survey of three East Asian countries, Jong-sung You explores how inequality hinders democratic control of corruption.

This book discusses unconventional ways of measuring and addressing poverty in South Africa, which remains one of the country''s biggest challenges.

In this comparative, historical survey of three East Asian countries, Jong-sung You explores how inequality hinders democratic control of corruption.

This book discusses unconventional ways of measuring and addressing poverty in South Africa, which remains one of the country''s biggest challenges.

An investigation which assesses how social policy affects human behaviour in the areas of temporary absence from paid work, early retirement and unemployment.

An investigation which assesses how social policy affects human behaviour in the areas of temporary absence from paid work, early retirement and unemployment.

A collection of papers that address unemployment as a social phenomenon.

A collection of papers that address unemployment as a social phenomenon.

This work presents the most recent data on poverty, family structure and participation in welfare programmes.

This work presents the most recent data on poverty, family structure and participation in welfare programmes.

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

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

Calcutta is notorious for its pavement dwellers, street children, and scavengers that have become a portrait of the worst sort of human degradation.

Calcutta is notorious for its pavement dwellers, street children, and scavengers that have become a portrait of the worst sort of human degradation.

Hunger and Poverty in South Africa: The Hidden Faces of Food Insecurity explores food insecurity as an issue of socioeconomic, political, cultural and environmental inequity and inequality.

Hunger and Poverty in South Africa: The Hidden Faces of Food Insecurity explores food insecurity as an issue of socioeconomic, political, cultural and environmental inequity and inequality.

The American Dream is under assault.

The American Dream is under assault.

Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; corporate welfare; and others.

Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; corporate welfare; and others.

The author presents an argument for a system of social insurance that replaces welfare with a Guaranteed Adequate Income.

The author presents an argument for a system of social insurance that replaces welfare with a Guaranteed Adequate Income.

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.

This book explores Africa''s involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth century.

This book explores Africa''s involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth century.

This book documents poverty systematically for the world''s indigenous peoples in developing regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

This book documents poverty systematically for the world''s indigenous peoples in developing regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

This ground-breaking work traces developments in poor relief from the mid-fourteenth century to the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601.

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Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences that large-scale production of transport fuel substitutes can have on rural areas, principally in developing countries but also in some poor rural areas of developed countries.