Poverty and precarity

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.

Explores new geographies of urban poverty, examining the citizenship, legal status and politics of the rehabilitated poor.

First published in 1988, The Bhopal Syndrome documents one of world's worst industrial disaster: The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984.

Late-nineteenth-century Britain saw the privileged classes forsake society balls and gatherings to turn their considerable resources to investigating and relieving poverty.

More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.

Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music.

If a measure of our humanity is how we treat the most vulnerable, our report card is bleak.

This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and povertyis the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency?

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.

Why do some development projects succeed where others fail?

An examination of the ways that digital technologies play an increasingly important role in the lives of precarious workers, far beyond the gig economy apps like Uber and Lyft.

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanizationAs the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide.

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.

Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health.

That s how things go in the hood: It s a never ending cycle of trouble, and once it grabs you, it won t let go.

More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.

Draws together evidence that poverty causes serious mental illness and gives recommendations as to what can be done about this.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.

Christian authors have argued either for a free market solution to global poverty or for a radical reform of global capitalism but the theological underpinnings of such conclusions are noticeable by their absence.

'Pop-up' is a fully-fledged, new urbanism.

"e;Vollman explores, sometimes sensitively, often provocatively, the emotional, psychological, and physical dimensions of poverty"e; (Chicago Tribune).

Focusing on the lives of first- and second-generation British Pakistani young adult men and those approaching middle age who offend or have offended and the experiences of their fathers bringing them up in a de-industrialised city, this book examines the influence of social relations on their moves toward and away from crime, particularly the impact of father-son relationships.

A "e;stunningly detailed and timely"e; account of the idea of the ghetto from its origins in sixteenth century Venice and its revival by the Nazis to the present (Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The New York Times Book Review).

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.

A comprehensive guide to implementing SAE methods for poverty studies and poverty mapping There is an increasingly urgent demand for poverty and living conditions data, in relation to local areas and/or subpopulations.

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.

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 offers a close look at the discourse of and around three socially marginalised and vulnerable groups – Irish Travellers, Squatters and Homeless people – in order to understand more about how individuals within them position themselves vis-à-vis mainstream society.

First published in 1993.

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.

Lichtenberg argues for a practical and moral approach to reducing poverty, exploring concepts such as altruism and aid.

This collection of documents contextualizes the ways in which Americans have addressed the evolving challenges of poverty throughout U.

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.

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.

Inclusion in the American Dream brings together leading scholars and policy experts on the topic of asset building, particularly as this relates to public policy.

The author presents an argument for a system of social insurance that replaces welfare with a Guaranteed Adequate Income.

An exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector.

Exploring why South Africans rarely use activism to address food insecurity, this study proposes ways to reclaim the power of collective action.

Ela Bhatt is widely recognized as one of the world's most remarkable pioneers and entrepreneurial forces in grassroots development.

This book interrogates the idea of equity in the context of India's Northeast region.

This collection offers a timely reassessment of viable ways of addressing poverty across the globe today.

In this insightful volume, Susan R.

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.

For thousands of years, Ethiopia has depended on its smallholding farmers to provide the bulk of its food needs.

The Open Door: Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness in the Era of Community Treatment explains how and why homelessness among the mentally ill has persisted over the past 35 years, despite policy and program initiatives to end it.

One of the United States great promises is that all children will be given the opportunity to work to achieve a comfortable standard of living.

First published in 1993.

Getting By offers an integrated, critical account of the federal laws and programs that most directly affect poor and low-income people in the United States-the unemployed, the underemployed, and the low-wage employed, whether working in or outside the home.

This book focuses on urban crime and policing in Turkey since the steady economic decline of the 1990s.