Poverty and precarity

Few government programs in the United States are as controversial as those designed to help the poor.

In 1964 the United States began its War on Poverty with the passing of the Economic Opportunity Act, and in the following year Canada announced a similar attack.

Late-nineteenth-century Britain saw the privileged classes forsake society balls and gatherings to turn their considerable resources to investigating and relieving poverty.

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.

Winner of the 2024 Academics Stand Against Poverty Book of the Year Anthology AwardThe problem of poverty is global in scope and has devastating consequences for many essential aspects of life: health, education, political participation, autonomy, and psychological well-being.

Why are some people poor?

KINDER AUS ÖSTERREICH - ARBEITER IN DEUTSCHLAND Wanderung, Leben, Arbeit der "Tiroler Hütekinder" anhand genauer Quellenstudien und mündlicher Berichte noch lebender ZeitzeugenIm 19.

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

Mathieu lives in the street by choice, eschewing drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol.

Weltweit sind die Populisten auf dem Vormarsch – Bestseller-Autor Michael J.

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.

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

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

Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades.

This book documents the role of social capital in accelerating poverty alleviation and rural development.

This book systematically defends an account of the institution of legal punishment that draws on both retributive and crime-prevention thinking.

Providing essential knowledge and understanding that midwives, health visitors, nursery nurses and lay birth and early parenting educators need to deliver effective and evidence-based education to all new parents and families, this book explores key issues in perinatal education.

A pioneering new ''history from below'' of Irish poverty told through the letters of the Catholic poor in Independent Ireland.

Mit der neuen coronabedingten Massenarbeitslosigkeit hat ein tektonisches Beben die ethischen Grundfesten unserer Arbeitsgesellschaft erschüttert.

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.

Mit seiner im Jahre 1880 erschienenen Denkschrift initiierte der ehemalige Senator und Leiter des Armenwesens in Gotha, Albert Doell, die erste deutsche Armenpflegerkonferenz und - in deren Folge - die Gründung des 'Deutschen Vereins für Armenpflege und Wohlthätigkeit' (1919 umbenannt in 'Deutscher Verein für öffentliche und private Fürsorge').

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

The feminization of poverty is increasingly recognized as a global phenomenon, affecting women not only in third world countries but also in the West.

Draws together evidence that poverty causes serious mental illness and gives recommendations as to what can be done about this.

A "e;stunningly detailed and timely"e; account of the idea of the ghetto from its origins in sixteenth century Venice and its revival by the Nazis to the present (Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The New York Times Book Review).

Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great, unresolved question of how to overcome persistent ghetto poverty.

An investigation which assesses how social policy affects human behaviour in the areas of temporary absence from paid work, early retirement and unemployment.

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

Our divided politics, unable to solve the challenges we face concerning society's hierarchies of injustice, poverty, endless war, and climate change, are now backtracking to even more division.

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.

Combining the fields of international trade theory, economic development, and economic growth, this text provides an advanced exposition suitable for graduate students as well as researchers at all levels.

'Pop-up' is a fully-fledged, new urbanism.

A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of US involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s.

Bruce F.

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What is life like for families who are stuck in problem debt?

By combining the perspectives of political elites with those of voters, this book provides a unique analysis of the dynamics of the party-voter relationship in Africa.

What is it about the concept of “home” that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically?

While the need for effective action toward a greener and socially inclusive economy has long been evident, health promotion in the context of sustainable development has faltered.

One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off.

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

Since the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe.

What does day-to-day life involve for those who receive out-of-work benefits?

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.

In the year 2000, the international community agreed to a framework to address global poverty.

The problems of unemployment soon reach the desks and consulting rooms of professional helpers.