Poverty and precarity

This book explores welfare politics, unemployment, and interventions in relation to the labour market from a critical psychological perspective.

The researchers who have written this volume are clear not only that mass poverty is still the leading humanitarian crisis in developing countries, but that, if effective policies are to be put in place, the national elites who control governments and economies need to be convinced of both the reasons why reducing poverty is in their own and the national interest, and that public action can make a difference.

'A breath of fresh air' - Norman FinklesteinWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world.

Americans believe economic opportunity is as fundamental a right as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Global economic recovery in the aftermath of the Great Recession has not been experienced equally: while the share of wealth owned by the richest 3% has grown, the share owned by the poorest 90% continues to decline, as reported by Oxfam in 2016.

By combining the perspectives of political elites with those of voters, this book provides a unique analysis of the dynamics of the party-voter relationship in Africa.

*WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable .

India, despite being largely rural, has struggled to maintain an adequate social infrastructure in its rural regions due to insufficient need-based development interventions, low public spending, limited market reach and a lack of individual contributions.

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses.

Structural adjustment programmes are the largest single cause of increased poverty, inequality and hunger in developing countries.

Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology.

Wie zahlreiche Untersuchungen bestätigen, werden insbesondere Langzeitarbeitslose in Bewerbungsverfahren systematisch benachteiligt.

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

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

This new addition to the Fast Facts series delivers the core information for orienting novice nurses or nursing students to the challenging field of pediatric nursing.

How was poverty measured and defined, and how has this influenced our judgement of the change in poverty in Britain during the first sixty years of the twentieth century?

Unemployment and the state in Britain offers an important and original contribution to understandings of the 1930s.

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.

Peasants are a majority of the world's poor.

Homeless Heritage describes the process of using archaeological methodologies to collaboratively document how contemporary homeless people use and experience the city.

The "e;living wage"e; is an old idea that has experienced a dramatic resurgence of political popularity in recent years.

In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade.

An overview of the role played by federalism in anti-poverty policy and in poverty law.

By 2024 a majority of parents in the UK with three or more children were going hungry to feed their families.

This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families.

Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem.

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

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

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

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less.

The book present the focal attention on the elimination of poverty and to reach to the purpose discusses various factors, plans and perspectives in details : various dimensions discussed by many different economist of world and the variations, analysis of the perspective in context of last five decades development experience of the other countries, Indian experience and its multiface in India.

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.

Delivers strategic, evidence-based measures for recognizing and treating abnormal behaviors in children in the content of primary care practiceWritten for practicing pediatric and family nurse practitioners, and PNP and FNP students, this pediatric primary care text expands on the crucial role of the healthcare provider to assess, identify, and intercept potential behavioral health problems.

This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion.

Why do some development projects succeed where others fail?

The failure of attempts to tackle global poverty have bred cynicism and 'compassion fatigue'.

This book provides a comprehensive picture for understanding the experiences and dynamics of precarious workers' in-work poverty in western China.

This title provides a one-stop resource for understanding the crisis of homelessness in the United States.

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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.

This book covers a wide range of issues related to poverty and inequality in the context of development planning in India.

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

Without access to mainstream financial services, people pay more for goods and services and have less choice.

Langzeitarbeitslose Nichtwähler sind wütend und enttäuscht.

Focuses on the concept phase of the project to resolve complex challenges in the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana.

From the 1890s onwards, social reformers, volunteer lawyers, and politicians increasingly came to see access to affordable or free legal advice as a critical part of helping working-class people uphold their rights with landlords, employers, and retailers - and, from the 1940s, with the welfare state.