Poverty and precarity

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There is enormous inequality between the income and wealth of the richest 1 percent and all other Americans.

When does a person become disqualified for some or all of the rights associated with full citizenship?

This edited book is about child poverty in Wales, specifically in a local school-community that identified its causes and effects, the challenges it poses for schooling future generations, and a series of local solutions that personify Wales's devolved governments' social democratic social imaginary.

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.

Poverty and inequality have pervaded British society to this day, but this has not always been self-evident to contemporaries - popular understandings have depended on existing knowledge.

This detailed book is a resource for students, practitioners, and leaders interested in how the major world religions have understood poverty and responded to the poor.

This book closely examines controversial claims and beliefs surrounding poverty and anti-poverty programs in the United States.

A powerful expos of Parisian haute couture Book of the Week, Times Higher EducationFashion is one of the most powerful industries in the world, accounting for 6% of global consumption and growing steadily.

This thought-provoking and challenging book is about sex and profits.

Since the group of least developed countries (LDCs) was identified in 1971, only five countries have graduated from the group, all of which are characterised by small size or population.

Gegen Profit und Heuchelei: Für Hilfe, die wirklich hilft!

This book discusses unconventional ways of measuring and addressing poverty in South Africa, which remains one of the country''s biggest challenges.

'In this English translation, Moon's story is usefully framed by apparatus necessary to bring its message to even those taking their first look at South Asian culture.

Poverty and inequality have pervaded British society to this day, but this has not always been self-evident to contemporaries - popular understandings have depended on existing knowledge.

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Whether we have children or not we all want the future to be fairer and happier; and Zoe Williams believes that we need to make that happen collectively.

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This book maps the problems and possibilities of the policies and practices designed to tackle violence against women in the domestic sphere over the last 40 years.

Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem.

"e;There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Palin sneers at community organizers.

Der Unternehmer, Coach und Autor Wolfram Berghüser nimmt Dich mit auf eine faszinierende Reise zu einigen seiner bewegendsten Lebensstationen und taucht mit Dir ein in die Erkenntnisse über die tiefgreifendsten Fragen + Antworten des Lebens, die er in 41 Jahren seines Unternehmertums sammeln und als Coach bereits vielen Menschen vermitteln durfte:Warum sind wir eigentlich aus dem Paradies gefallen - und wie gelingt uns die "Rolle-Rückwärts" dahin zurück?

A pioneering study of the importance of dress to the collective and individual identities of the nineteenth-century English poor.

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

Identifying factors related to poverty that affect infants, toddlers, and their families, this book describes promising early child care and intervention practices specifically tailored to these children and families' needs.

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.

Asia contains the bulk of the world's poor, as many as 500 million people.

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

Lost Childhood explores the everyday lives of street children in India.

Argues that the poor have the right to resist causes of poverty, examining illegal immigration, social movements, and political violence.

After the Second World War, the idea that local community action was indispensable for the alleviation of poverty was broadly embraced by US policymakers, social scientists, international development specialists, and grassroots activists.

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

This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts.

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

Not since the Great Depression of the 1930s has the United States faced such a prolonged period of high unemployment and underemployment.

Robert Walker provides a critical examination of the promise and reality of SDG1, the United Nations' Social Development Goal designed, among other things, to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.

Much of the literature that addresses youth unemployment has been framed within an economic paradigm and much less attention has been focused on the role played by country-specific value orientations in structuring economic activity.

A collection of papers that address unemployment as a social phenomenon.

Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature.

In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty.

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.

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

What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations?

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.

Poverty is an unnecessary form of human degradation and badly conceived economics.

As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization, economic stressors take a great toll on children.

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

Using recent research on Ecuador, this book discusses a social accounting matrix (SAM)-based model for simulating the effects of basic needs policies on various socio-economic groups.

Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; corporate welfare; and others.