Poverty and precarity

Based on research that was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness.

Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry?

US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the “defining issue of our time.

US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the “defining issue of our time.

Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry?

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

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

This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales.

It has long been suggested that poverty was responsible for a criminal underclass emerging in Britain during the nineteenth century.

This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales.

It has long been suggested that poverty was responsible for a criminal underclass emerging in Britain during the nineteenth century.

This authoritative reference work explores the factors driving the much-debated increase in economic inequality in U.

This book provides an accessible introduction to food inequality in the United States, offering readers a broad survey of the most important topics and issues and exploring how economics, culture, and public policy have shaped our current food landscape.

Drawing upon decades of research and myriad authentic classroom experiences, Kathleen M.

Drawing upon decades of research and myriad authentic classroom experiences, Kathleen M.

This collection of articles from Educational Leadership brings together fifteen insightful and passionate pieces that will help you better understand how poverty affects learning and what educators can do to make a positive difference for each learner every day.

This collection of articles from Educational Leadership brings together fifteen insightful and passionate pieces that will help you better understand how poverty affects learning and what educators can do to make a positive difference for each learner every day.

THE BESTSELLING SERIES THAT INSPIRED AMAZON PRIME'S BALLARD AND BOSCH A CRIME BURIED FOR YEARS.

NOW A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY & ANDY MACDOWELL.

A MURDER HE CAN'T FORGET.

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes makes the case that one percenters like him should pay their fortune forward in a radically simple way: a guaranteed income for working people

The first half of Chris Hughes' life followed the perfect arc of the American Dream.

I warn society against the child who has been hurt Peter Tyrrell A tormented childhood in Letterfrack industrial school with the Christian Brothers left an enduring mark on Peter Tyrrell.

A richly recounted memoir of growing up in an Irish farming community in the 1940sA love of Ireland and the Irish is what shines through this little memoir.

Pierre-Richard Ag nor s pioneering work on Integrated Macroeconomics Models for Poverty Analysis (IMMPA) is cataloged for the first time in this must-read volume.

What the financial diaries of working-class families reveal about economic stresses, why they happen, and what policies might reduce themDeep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children.

We are used to thinking about inequality within countries--about rich Americans versus poor Americans, for instance.

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.

An inside look at how community service organizations really workVolunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime.

Getting inside the heads of the developing world's dictators, warlords, and corrupt politiciansMeet the economic gangster.

Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature.

'We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.

Theories on the eradication of poverty abound.

Theories on the eradication of poverty abound.

This book describes and quantifies the major socioeconomic changes that have occurred in four new member states of the EU (Slovenia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria) since the early 1990s.

This book describes and quantifies the major socioeconomic changes that have occurred in four new member states of the EU (Slovenia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria) since the early 1990s.

Juvenile crime makes headlines.

Juvenile crime makes headlines.

Featuring original research findings from a key Chinese national research centre, this book provides researchers with cutting-edge, reliable and comprehensive information about children and youth in modern China.

Featuring original research findings from a key Chinese national research centre, this book provides researchers with cutting-edge, reliable and comprehensive information about children and youth in modern China.

This book sets out the current state of knowledge about what works in reducing impairments to children's health and development.

This book sets out the current state of knowledge about what works in reducing impairments to children's health and development.

The social fund has been a controversial instrument of social policy in the UK since its introduction in 1988.

The social fund has been a controversial instrument of social policy in the UK since its introduction in 1988.

Presenting the findings of a major research project funded by the EU (INTAS), this key volume investigates the regional, ethnic and socio-cultural aspects of poverty and social exclusion in Russia in recent years.

Presenting the findings of a major research project funded by the EU (INTAS), this key volume investigates the regional, ethnic and socio-cultural aspects of poverty and social exclusion in Russia in recent years.