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.
There are over a half million people experiencing homelessness in the United States, nearly 160,000 of them are children, and nearly 38,000 are veterans.
The Lived Experiences of Claiming Wrongful Conviction in Prison focuses on the lived experience of maintaining innocence in the prison environment and highlights the struggles and pain that such a claim can cause.
As the post-9/11 wars wind down, a literature professor at West Point explores what it means for soldiers, and our country, to be caught between war and peace.
With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades.
In 1970, a single mother with two children working full-time at the federal minimum wage in the US received no direct cash benefits from the federal government.
Die Gruppenpsychotherapie wurde im geteilten Deutschland unterschiedlich interpretiert, in Ostdeutschland erlebte die Gruppenpsychotherapie (IDG) eine Blüte.
The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality-a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world's great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe?
This edited book is about child poverty in Wales, specifically in a local school-community that identified its causes and effects, the challenges it poses for schooling future generations, and a series of local solutions that personify Wales's devolved governments' social democratic social imaginary.
In Hijacking History, Liane Tanguay unravels the ideology behind an American enterprise unprecedented in scope, ambition, and brazen claim to global supremacy: the War on Terror.
DIE VERMESSUNG SOZIALER WAHRSCHEINLICHKEITENDAS ARCHIV MEINER SOZIALEN WUTGeschichten von der UNTEREN KLASSE, Literatur über SOZIALE HERKUNFT – meist sind das Erzählungen von AUFBRUCH und AUFSTIEG.
In this ground-breaking study, Sophie Body-Gendrot provides a comparative analysis of the growing problem of new forms of poverty and social marginalisation in contemporary advanced societies.
In Poor Queer Studies Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies.
Granted unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the maternity ward of Atlanta's sprawling public hospital, Jerry Gentry binds together stories of women, medical residents, nurses, and midwives.
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.
Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights.
Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years.
In Displacement City, outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe present the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during the pandemic.
Solution focused approaches offer proven ways of helping children overcome a whole range of difficulties, from academic problems to mental health issues, by helping them to identify their strengths and achievements.
Focusing on the English- and French-language networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Kyle Conway draws on the CBC/Radio Canada rich print and video archive as well as journalists' accounts of their reporting to revisit the story of the accords and the furor they stirred in both French and English Canada.
Poverty estimates-the number and percentage of persons living in poverty-have been of interest to Congress not only to gauge the nation's economic health, but also because they are used to determine funding allocations for a variety of programs.
This richly textured social history recovers the voices and experiences of poor Egyptians--beggars, foundlings, the sick and maimed--giving them a history for the first time.
When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the "e;tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt.
Das Buch befasst sich mit der Geschichte der Massenarbeitslosigkeit in Westeuropa seit den 1970er Jahren am Beispiel der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Großbritanniens.