Poverty and precarity

In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country.

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

Based on four years of reporting, "e;a heartfelt portrait of five teenage girls growing up in Maine's remote and economically depressed Washington County"e; (Publishers Weekly).

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.

When most people think of policies designed to help the poor, welfare is the first program that comes to mind.

People who participate in debates about the causes and cures of poverty often speak from religious conviction.

In this reissue of the 1972 classic of social anatomy, Richard Sennets adds a new introduction to shows how the injuries of class persist into the 21st century.

Ausgehend von Marx' Theorie der entfremdeten Arbeit, der Ideologiekritik der Frankfurter Schule, Sartres Konzept der mauvaise-foi sowie aktuellen Studien fragt Cora Rok nach alten und neuen Formen der Entfremdung in der Arbeitswelt des 21.

This book is the first of its kind to apply social contextual analysis to the issue of poverty.

A harrowing look at violence among Argentina's urban poorArquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities.

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

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.

Based on the critically acclaimed dramatic film and inspired by true events, No Address shows how homelessness can happen to anyone.

This book highlights the value and skill of horticultural work through stories of food cultivation.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came with bold promises: ending poverty, saving the planet, and making this world a better place by 2030.

Lorna Tucker, have lived a life that most of you can't even begin to imagine.

This volume engages with the question of how labour is transforming under late capitalism, and what insights the study of sex work offers into these transformations.

This volume engages with the question of how labour is transforming under late capitalism, and what insights the study of sex work offers into these transformations.

Health as Propertyshows how responses to racism can be predatory, harmful, and dangerous to poor people of color.

Health as Propertyshows how responses to racism can be predatory, harmful, and dangerous to poor people of color.