Poverty and precarity

At forty, Sarah Einstein is forced to face her own shortcomings.

First published in 1989 by The University of Alabama Press, Poor but Proud was met with critical acclaim and awarded the 1990 Lillian Smith prize in nonfiction, as well as being named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book.

More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state.

Since the end of the Cold War, increasing numbers of people have been forced to leave their homes as a result of armed conflict, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights.

A Brookings Institution Press and Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies publicationPoor people spend their money living day to day.

For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline.

Private sector activity is crucial for development.

A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publicationThis book is based on a simple concept: no one is in a better position to hold a government accountable than those it governs.

Fifty years after Oscar Lewis's famous depiction of five Mexican families caught in a "e;"e;culture of poverty,"e;"e; Caroline Moser tells a very different story of five neighborhood women and their families strategically accumulating assets to escape poverty in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil.

History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations.

What is it to feel homeless?

In his inaugural address, President John F.

Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history.

The distinctive way of life of the Southern Appalachian people has often been criticized, romanticized or derided, but rarely has it been understood.

This classic memoir is "e;an absorbing tale"e; of life in Appalachian Kentucky during the Great Depression (The Washington Post).

A "e;well researched and vigorously written"e; account of social activism, radical politics, and the failed War on Poverty in 1960s Appalachia (Journal of American History).

The feminization of poverty is increasingly recognized as a global phenomenon, affecting women not only in third world countries but also in the West.

From 2007 to 2012, almost five percent of American adults-about ten million people-lost their homes because they could not make mortgage payments.

In Two Sports Myths and Why They're Wrong, authors Rodney Fort and Jason Winfree apply sharp economic analysis to bust a couple of the most widespread urban legends about professional athletics.

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.

Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world.

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Is popular anger about rising inequality propelling China toward a "e;social volcano"e; of protest activity and instability that could challenge Chinese Communist Party rule?

The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape.

Before screens could be stared at, listeners lent their ears to radio, and Canadian listeners were as avid as any.

Engaging with place, image, and media to understand the complexity of urban life.

Media are incorporated into our physical environments more dramatically than ever before - literally opening up new spaces of interactivity and connection that transform the experience of being in the city.

An investigation of the challenges faced by Canadian cinema in the digital age.

What do digital platforms mean for cinema studies in Canada?

How are children protected in today's multi-screen environment?

The digital age has carried with it a tsunami of change.

An interdisciplinary look at a neglected region of the Canada-US border.

The idea that the American Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies are just "e;fly-over"e; country is a mistake.

Mapping the changing realities of youth creative self-employment in the twenty-first century.

Soulja Boy, Justin Bieber, and Tavi Gevinson are hardly representative of typical youth experiences, but their origins highlight many of the realities of youth doing independent creative work.

Digital technology has revolutionized modern television but what exactly has changed?

Digital technology has revolutionized modern television but what exactly has changed?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every day, we are barraged by statistics, images, and emotional messages that present poverty as a problem to be quantified, managed, and solved.

No matter where you live, this book explains everything you need to know to break into the challenging and profitable magazine market.

The 49th parallel has long held a symbolic importance to Canadian cultural nationalists as a strong, though permeable, border.

The 49th parallel has long held a symbolic importance to Canadian cultural nationalists as a strong, though permeable, border.

Donald Theall explores and explains the significance of the emergence of McLuhan as an important figure in North America in the development of an understanding of culture, communication, and technology.

Arguing that the consequences of the unemployment crisis could have been avoided by better government policies, particularly less restrictive monetary control, the contributors examine the effect of the zero-inflation policy adopted by the Bank of Canada and the role of unemployment insurance on the unemployment crisis of recent years.