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.

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses.

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

In 1947, grocer Johnny Lombardi went on air for the first time to share the sounds of "e;sunny Italy"e; with the radio listeners of Toronto.

In 1947, grocer Johnny Lombardi went on air for the first time to share the sounds of sunny Italy with the radio listeners of Toronto.

In this incisive and practical book, H.

Sinnvolle und sinnstiftende Arbeitsplätze für ausgesteuerte Langzeiterwerbslose zu schaffen und die mittel- und längerfristige Integration in den Ersten Arbeitsmarkt - so lautet das erfolgreich realisierte Ziel der St.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023'Important and beautifully lyrical' THE TIMES'A fierce, urgent memoir' AMY-JANE BEERTo grow up in rural poverty is to fight for life before you can walk.

Arbeitslose werden in modernen Gesellschaften häufig als Überflüssige oder Ausgeschlossene betrachtet.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023 A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EvictedThe United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced democracy.

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.

A Modern Slavery is a book written by Henry Woodd Nevinson, first published in 1906.

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.

This authoritative reference work explores the factors driving the much-debated increase in economic inequality in U.

50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty.

The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment.

Egypt is a country of its people.

The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape.

An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic world of street urchins, capoeiristas, drug dealers, and wise teachers.

Is popular anger about rising inequality propelling China toward a "e;social volcano"e; of protest activity and instability that could challenge Chinese Communist Party rule?

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.

From 2007 to 2012, almost five percent of American adults-about ten million people-lost their homes because they could not make mortgage payments.

Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came with bold promises: ending poverty, saving the planet, and making this world a better place by 2030.

The Asia and Pacific region continued to grow despite a difficult external global environment.

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has made advances in narrowing gender gaps in its labor market.

The global financial crisis emerged at an alarming rate.

Providing access to clean water continues to be a challenge for governments.

Development Asia examines Asia's widening inequality from many different perspectives.

A 2013 Best Translated Book Award FinalistWhen he reads about a mysterious explosion in the distant countryside, the narrator's thoughts turn to his disappeared childhood friend, M, who was abducted from his home years ago, during a spasm of political violence in Buenos Aires in the early 1970s.

Inclusive growth needs to be achieved to reduce poverty and other disparities and raise economic growth.

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an "e;unconditional war"e; on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Americans.

This publication provides a standard compilation of supply and use tables (SUTs) for 19 economies in Asia and the Pacific to help them comply with the United Nations 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA) recommendations.

Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem.

This book covers a wide range of issues related to poverty and inequality in the context of development planning in India.

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.

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

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less.

Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies.

Microfinance is widely practicing all over the world spreading into five different continents and different countries.

Mi Rinconcito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto "e;Beto"e; Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist.

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

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

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.

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

This book focuses on the intelligent technologies that are transforming creative practices and industries.

This book focuses on the intelligent technologies that are transforming creative practices and industries.

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

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

In Two Sports Myths and Why They're Wrong, authors Rodney Fort and Jason Winfree apply sharp economic analysis to bust a couple of the most widespread urban legends about professional athletics.