Poverty and precarity

This book is about people who are marginalised in criminology; it is an attempt to make space and amplify voices that are too often overlooked, spoken about, or for.

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

The first book to study women's poverty over the life course, this wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women--while also considering partnered women and immigrants--in eight wealthy but diverse countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Robin Marie Averbeck offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured liberal thought and action in postwar America.

Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change.

When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten years on its success in making Britain 'a more equal society'.

Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate to and interact with poverty and inequalities.

Focuses on the concept phase of the project to resolve complex challenges in the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana.

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

Some Stories Just Can't Be Stopped .

Inequality is the key political issue of our time.

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.

The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr.

In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty.

This book provides an up-to-date, accessible introduction to the relationship between families, prisons and penal policies in the United Kingdom.

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

Voted one of the Guardian best books of 2014 by Owen Jones.

Essays exploring how reformers and charities used the "e;magic lantern"e; to raise public awareness of poverty.

Focusing on the lives of first- and second-generation British Pakistani young adult men and those approaching middle age who offend or have offended and the experiences of their fathers bringing them up in a de-industrialised city, this book examines the influence of social relations on their moves toward and away from crime, particularly the impact of father-son relationships.

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.

Drawing on the perspectives of women and children displaced from Ukraine, as well as local authority policy makers and service providers, this book provides a unique view of the direct and indirect consequences of war in Europe.

Wie wurden Armutsthematiken in den letzten 30 Jahren durch das Parteiensystem Deutschlands repräsentiert?

Die Schlachten des 20.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date source of information and analysis about all aspects of the work of the Probation Service.

First published in 1993.

Das Ausmaß sozialer Ungleichheit und der Umgang mit Armut sind wesentliche Indikatoren einer sozialen Gesellschaft.

Food banks, welfare cheques, and shelters for the homeless are the modern face of a timeless problem.

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

Drawing upon decades of research and myriad authentic classroom experiences, Kathleen M.

In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1964 and 2002, draw together research by leading academics in the area of higher education, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues.

This is a study of the ideas and attitudes expressed in the extensive literature on poverty, pauperism and relief published in England between the 1790s and the 1830s.

Private sector activity is crucial for development.

This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor.

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

White trash.

Originally published in 1981 The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850-1950 is an edited collection on the history and future prospects of the modern welfare state.

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.

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

India, despite being largely rural, has struggled to maintain an adequate social infrastructure in its rural regions due to insufficient need-based development interventions, low public spending, limited market reach and a lack of individual contributions.

The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr.

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

In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House-the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work.

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.

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.

Originally published in 1997 Working for Women?

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 “American society”—one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal.