Poverty and precarity

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago.

The idea that the American Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies are just "e;fly-over"e; country is a mistake.

Disaster has become big business.

An innovative study of charity practices in Saudi Arabia, focusing on ordinary Saudis who provide charity to the poor and needy.

When viewed from the perspective of those who suffer the consequences of repressive approaches to public security, it is often difficult to distinguish state agents from criminals.

Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies.

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

In this clear and intelligent book, Thomas Lines examines the role that global policies have played in creating a crisis of rural poverty.

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

A study of the poor''s movements in response to the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics.

It has long been suggested that poverty was responsible for a criminal underclass emerging in Britain during the nineteenth century.

This book provides unique insights into the challenges and potential solutions to alleviate poverty in western China.

Manufactured Insecurityis the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents.

'A persuasive and highly readable account of how rising inequality, and not just absolute poverty, is undermining our politics, social cohesion, long-term prosperity and general well-being' Barack ObamaInequality makes us feel poor and act poor, even when we're not.

Peasants are a majority of the world's poor.

Why do so many people worldwide suffer hunger and poverty when there is enough food and other resources globally to prevent it?

The distinctive way of life of the Southern Appalachian people has often been criticized, romanticized or derided, but rarely has it been understood.

Rejecting those who urge a bootstrap approach to people living in extreme poverty on the edge of society, sociologist Barbara Arrighi makes an eloquent, compassionate plea for empathy and collective responsibility toward those for whom either the boots or the straps are missing.

This ground-breaking work traces developments in poor relief from the mid-fourteenth century to the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601.

Globally, there is a commitment to eliminate poverty; and yet the politics that have caused anti-poverty policies to succeed in some countries and to fail in others have been little studied.

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

"e;"e;The best way of handling the question of how much to give the poor, politicians have discovered, is to avoid doing anything about it at all,"e;"e; note Paul Peterson and Mark Rom.

In the mid-eighteenth century in France, the royal authorities launched a new campaign to sweep beggars from the streets, pinning their hopes on the creation of a uniform royal network of lock-ups in which anyone found begging might be detained.

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 22 begins with papers of widespread interest on the impact of the Great Recession.

Debtors' prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form.

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.

On any given night, more than half a million Americans and Canadians find themselves sleeping on the streets, in shelters, cars, and other places not meant for human habitation.

In Hijacking History, Liane Tanguay unravels the ideology behind an American enterprise unprecedented in scope, ambition, and brazen claim to global supremacy: the War on Terror.

What was American welfare like in George Washington's day?

Diverging from the studies of southern African migrant labor that focus on particular workplaces and points of origin, Bound for Work looks at the multitude of forms and locales of migrant labor that individuals-under more or less coercive circumstances-engaged in over the course of their lives.

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

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

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.

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.

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago.

A touching four-year chronicle of five girls coming of age in impoverished rural Maine and learning to forge their own paths through life's struggles.

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

The poor are grossly underrepresented in Congress both overall and by individual legislators, even those who represent high-poverty districts.

Through the efforts of increasingly media-aware NGOs, people in the west are bombarded with images of poverty and inequality in the developing world.

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

Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts provides a vivid portrait and appraisal of how the lives of poor people are disrupted or helped by the judicial system, from the lowest to the highest courts.

A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apartChristophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "e;American society"e; one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal.

Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras, provoking a variety of reactions from rural poor communities worldwide.

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

Why has India's astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy?

Revelatory, lyrical and immersive, this is an extraordinary book that takes you deep into these ordinary women's worlds.

Economics of Faith examines the role of religious leaders in the development of poor relief institutions in early modern Europe.