Poverty and precarity

Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades.

In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines Americas ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness.

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

An attempt to define, measure and explain poverty is presented in this volume by means of a newly developed theoretical model.

In order to analyze the economic effects of various policy proposals for reforming the welfare state a model has been developed called MIMIC.

Using recent research on Ecuador, this book discusses a social accounting matrix (SAM)-based model for simulating the effects of basic needs policies on various socio-economic groups.

Asia proved resilient to the effects of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, but sustaining rapid growth became more difficult afterward.

The main objective of this book is to re-evaluate the true meaning of the term poverty in the world as a whole and in Nigeria in particular.

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.

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.

The book deals with poverty as one of the most serious and urgent issue in our modern time.

Though born an expatriate U.

Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem.

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an "e;unconditional war"e; on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Americans.

'A persuasive and highly readable account of how rising inequality, and not just absolute poverty, is undermining our politics, social cohesion, long-term prosperity and general well-being' Barack ObamaInequality makes us feel poor and act poor, even when we're not.

'This is a book that everyone must read.

"e;A record of how a city of great wealth ignored the desperate poverty at its very heart .

In The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey, published by the University Press of Kentucky in 1962, Rupert Vance suggested a decennial review of the region's progress.

'You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how.

'Brilliant, horrifying and really f***ing funny' KATHY BURKE'Give[s] powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britain's current fracturing' OBSERVERI'm a scrounger, a liar, a hypocrite, a stain on society with no basic morals - or so they say.

A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.

Can she escape her past?

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

Originally published in 1899, this is a work by Thorstein Veblen, an American economist and sociologist.

This vintage book contains Henry Mayhew's account of the London Underworld during the Victorian period, constructed from authentic first-person accounts by beggars, thieves and prostitutes.

Charles Dickens's second novel, "e;Oliver Twist"e; was first published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and centres around the story of orphan Oliver Twist, who was born in a workhouse and sold as an apprentice to an undertaker.

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

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.

In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal.

Today, with so much know-how existing on this planet, there are still billions of people in extreme poverty.

There is no shortage of incentives to study and reduce poverty in our societies.

This widely adopted text and practical guidebook presents the fundamentals of family-based intervention with clients struggling with chronic poverty-related crises and life stressors.

Identifying factors related to poverty that affect infants, toddlers, and their families, this book describes promising early child care and intervention practices specifically tailored to these children and families' needs.

from the Foreword:Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others.

This collection of essays is published as a tribute to the eminent Canadian scholar, J.

Comprising a number of short essays, Why the Homeless Have No Chance: The Dismantling of Success documents a sociological journey through the homeless services industry and describes todays wrong-headed approach to this lingering social problem.

In the unique style that has endeared him to one of Canadas largest and most loyal radio audiences, best-selling author Lowell Green launches an all-out expose on those Canadians he says are wrecking our country.

It was the railway system which moulded the American hobo into the legendary figure he became, especially in the depression years, but surviving until today.

Heart-rending, shocking and totally gripping, The Slave Across the Street is the incredible true story of how an ordinary girl was lured into the sinister world of human trafficking - and how she eventually escaped and rebuilt her life.

'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND.

The incredible true story of a place where animals heal and children learn to hope When I started The Gentle Barn, some viewed it as a hobby or an obsession, some as an act of selfless devotion.

'An excellent and intelligent investigation of the realities of urban living that respond to no design or directive.

Abandoned as a baby, Andy McNab's start in life was tough.

Fatima Whitbread had the worst possible start in life.

The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment.

The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment.

How would your experience of the COVID-19 pandemic have been different if you had no access to the internet?

How would your experience of the COVID-19 pandemic have been different if you had no access to the internet?

In this seminal book, Krumer-Nevo introduces the Poverty-Aware Paradigm: a radical new framework for social workers and professionals working with and for people in poverty.