Poverty and precarity

This volume provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in order to raise the necessary financial resources to make the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals a reality by 2015.

In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty.

With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "e;disorderly"e; people continue to occupy public space in many American cities.

Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies.

Originally published in 1976, Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England examines working-class radicalism in the mid-Victorian period and suggests that after the fading of Chartist militancy the radical tradition was preserved in a working-class subculture that enabled working men to resist the full consolidation of middle-class hegemony.

The issue of homelessness has become extremely important in policy debates during the 1990s.

Developing a contemporary account of political friendship and synthesizing it with the radical movement of degrowth, this book provides the ethical grounding and the rationale of an alternative economy which serves human flourishing.

Published Under the Garamond ImprintHunger and undernutrition are widespread in many advanced capitalist societies.

What does the Bible say about poverty and our responsibility toward the poor?

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This book brings together two of today's leading concerns in development policy - the urgent need to prioritize poverty reduction and the particular circumstances of indigenous peoples in both developing and industrialized countries.

This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic "e;reform"e; and "e;adjustment"e;.

Inequality is one of today's greatest challenges, obstructing poverty reduction and sustainable development.

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.

We live in an increasingly prosperous world, yet the estimated number of undernourished people has risen, and will continue to rise with the doubling of food prices.

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.

The Brookings Institution's Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative was created to inform the critical policy debates surrounding the upcoming congressional reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and a number of related programs that were created or dramatically altered by the 1996 landmark welfare reform legislation.

Have slums become 'cool'?

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

The Poverty of Nations is a study about the status and trends in human well-being as it varies from nation to nation worldwide.

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.

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

In a poverty-stricken neighbourhood wedged between the city and the sea, a father and son struggle to keep their heads above water.

Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies.

Originally published in 1987 Modern German Sociology is a collection of essays containing sociological work published in German since World War II.

StreetCities charts the development of an alternative communal housing model for chronically homeless men and women in downtown Toronto.

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Should chronically disruptive students be allowed to remain in public schools?

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

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c.

We are, all of us, intimately familiar with inequalities.

This book captures the thoughts of the Author who worked for more than four decades at the grassroots in India and other countries, observing and watching how Human Development Programmes touch the lives of those who receive the services like primary health care, water and sanitation, school education and reflecting on the managerial dimensions of these programmes.

Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion.

Why has India's astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy?

Originally a concern primarily of social studies and economics, poverty has emerged as a significant thematic focus and analytical tool in literary and cultural studies in the last two decades.

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

This book addresses the issue of the timing of transitional justice policies in countries that had negotiated transitions from authoritarianism to democracy.

Gecekondu settlements-or shanty towns-in large Turkish cities are mostly populated by low-income families, many of which have migrated from the villages of Central Anatolia.

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.

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

On any given night hundreds of thousands of Americans are without a home, and millions more live in fear that their family may end up homeless in the near future.

This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship.

A celebration of female inventiveness and aesthetic sensibility, Shedding the Shackles explores women's craft enterprises, their artisanal excellence, and the positive impact their individual projects have on breaking the poverty cycle.

Answering the Cry of the Poor in a Million Villages The church is facing a strategic opportunity 85 percent of people living in extreme poverty around the world reside in villages.

The federal election campaign of 2005-06 offered the usual mix of lofty rhetoric, competing interests, and skullduggery.