Poverty and precarity

Many of today's digital platforms are designed according to the same model: they encourage users to create content for fun (a mode of production that some have termed playbour) and to earn points.

Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation are both important societal goals demanding increasing international attention.

This edited collection brings together essays that explore personal debts to government.

Despite Western society's preoccupation with safety and protection, its most vulnerable members still lack access to the level of security that many of us take for granted.

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

When low-income city dwellers lack access to mainstream banking services, many end up turning to ‘fringe banks,’ such as cheque-cashers and pawnshops, for some or all of their financial transactions.

Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape.

Numerous studies have revealed that the poor disproportionately bear the burden of environmental problems in America today.

The acclaimed author and New Yorker columnist delves into the core of American poverty in the early 1980s: “Invaluable.

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

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

Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today.

'Poverty itself is a violation of numerous basic human rights.

Examines how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty.

Despite the recent success of welfare reform in moving people off public assistance and into jobs, most of America's working poor are still unable to accumulate even the most minimal of assets.

This collection of essays focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty.

This book provides an accessible introduction to food inequality in the United States, offering readers a broad survey of the most important topics and issues and exploring how economics, culture, and public policy have shaped our current food landscape.

Contemporary probation practice is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized.

Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID uses a complex realist approach to examine the crisis of three interconnected problems: economic inequality, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

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

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

Winner of the International Studies in Poverty Prize awarded by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Zed Books.

People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe.

This book investigates the best strategies for poverty alleviation in post-disaster urban environments, and the conditions necessary for the success and scaling up of these strategies.

In late 2007, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) published The Challenge of Hunger, and stated: There are 854 million people who go hungry every day.

Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation.

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.

The contribution of Western education to the creation of an African-educated elite is well documented.

In Poor Whites of the Antebellum South, Charles C.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2017 For more than three decades, Kathleen Cash has lived and worked with impoverished people, learning about their lives.

This interdisciplinary study applies human rights theory to the problems of rural poverty in the Third World.

This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty.

Unique in its approach and in the variety of methods and data employed, this book is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth evaluation of the financial system of Thailand, a proto-typical Asian developing economy.

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Originally published in 1983 Approaches to Welfare provides a unique introduction to the study of social welfare in Britain.

There is a growing acknowledgment amongst professionals and academics that we need to develop new responses to crime.

The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field of social work.

Die Altersarmut ist im Vergleich zur Armut in der Gesamtbevölkerung noch nicht auffallend hoch.

Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely forgotten.

This textbooks provides a comprehensive examination of poverty, wealth, and economic inequality from a psychological perspective.

This unflinching analysis explains the nature of precarity and its detrimental effects on the health and wellbeing of young people.

Pierre-Richard Ag nor s pioneering work on Integrated Macroeconomics Models for Poverty Analysis (IMMPA) is cataloged for the first time in this must-read volume.

Nowadays religions are especially important for those who are living in countries of the formerly so-called 'Third World'.

Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history.

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.

Make your money make a difference and enjoy attractive returns Small Money, Big Impact explores and explains the globally growing importance of impact investing.