Poverty and precarity

Elizabeth Gaskell uses her novel Mary Barton to compare and contrast the rich and the working class.

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In a shabby New York side street in the mid-1880s, young American Cedric Errol lives with his mother in genteel poverty after his father, Captain Errol dies.

Gottfried Schweiger beobachtet in Deutschland und Österreich ein besorgniserregendes, paradoxes Phänomen: Auf der einen Seite wird Kinderarmut ignoriert und heruntergespielt, auf der anderen Seite wird Mitleid mit Kindern in armen Verhältnissen vorgeschützt, um vor allem politische Maßnahmen zu rechtfertigen, die die Situation dieser Kinder meist noch verschlechtern.

Städte sind natürliche Biotope unterschiedlichster Lebensentwürfe auf engstem Raum.

Food is fundamental to health and social participation, yet food poverty has increased in the global North.

Mit der Figur des Gretchen hat Johann Wolfgang Goethe im "Faust" nicht nur einfach ein Mädchen, sondern eine Kindsmörderin unsterblich gemacht.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Poor Folk & Other Tales' is a collection of short stories that delve into the lives of the impoverished and marginalized members of Russian society.

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'A jaw-dropping investigation' - THE BOOKSELLER'Succeeds brilliantly in dismantling casual assumptions about the drudgery of cleaning' THE GUARDIAN'A great book, well researched, funny and poignant.

Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society.

'Touching, insightful and human - this book demands a social and, above all, a political response' Jon SnowTamsen Courtenay spent two months speaking to people who liveon London s streets, the homeless and the destitute people who feel they areinvisible.

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

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 Guardian top 5 books on the housing crisis in the UK'The housing crisis is just getting started,' warns Timperley in this important book.

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized.

Written with great empathy and Rauf's trademark humour, The Great (Food) Bank Heist is a moving story that gives a child's-eye view of the increasing problem of food poverty.

An uncompromising and heartbreaking end to the story of Nicky and Kenny, the beloved brothers of the Truth of Things quartet, beautifully told in McGowan's gritty realism.

The book 'Land and Poverty Alleviation' is the first comprehensive volume to remove poverty through implementation of all constituents of land reforms globally.

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The number of homeless people in America has continued to grow at an alarming rate since the 1970s.

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).

A Genre Analysis of Social Change contributes to current scholarship in rhetorical genre studies and discourse analysis in contexts of social change.

Leading UK economist Guy Standing has referred to the precariat as a class-in-the-making.

The term collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in human and personal terms.

The book 'Land and Poverty Alleviation' is the first comprehensive volume to remove poverty through implementation of all constituents of land reforms globally.

A Genre Analysis of Social Change contributes to current scholarship in rhetorical genre studies and discourse analysis in contexts of social change.

One woman's "e;affecting and well-written"e; memoir of growing up with twelve siblings in rural Kentucky, and returning as an adult (Kirkus Reviews).

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).

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In this edition of Social Panorama of Latin America, ECLAC has addressed the questions posed by the countries of the region in three major areas: income inequality between individuals and households and how these relate to labour market dynamics; the evolution of poverty and its determinants; and the effects of pension systems on equality.