Poverty and precarity Books

A new way of thinking about the nature of, and solutions to, contemporary poverty, disadvantage and inequality in Australia

"A Child of the Slums" by Grace Miller White, based on Martin J. Dixon's play, transports readers to the heart of early 20th-century New York City. This romantic story delves into the lives of those struggling within the city's impoverished neighborhoods...

The United States can build homes and rentals at fair prices. It's possible, doable, and customers are waiting. It's not that the U.S. doesn't have the private funding. It's not that the U.S. doesn't spend enough tax money. In fact, the U.S. already...

Poverty is an issue facing countries around the globe, yet it is a multi-dimensional phenomenon caused by a variety of factors, differing from context with no linear chain of cause and effect. The occurrence and persistence of poverty is influenced by an...

This volume looks at the three dimensions of social exclusion: economic, social and political. Exclusion is analyzed as a new approach to such issues as the 'new' poverty, precariousness, long-term unemployment, social polarization and lack of...

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. Meanwhile, in cities across the country, a handful of theatres began to show films in foreign languages. In the...

Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory. Though the decade often feels lost to history, Hinterland Remixed focuses on boldly innovative works as well as popular film, television, and music to show that...

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. On Facebook, for example, points are based on a user's...

This ethnographic exploration of contemporary spaces of homelessness takes an expanded view of homeless space, threading together experiences of organizational spaces, routes taken through the city and the occupation of public space. Through...

How do young people make effective transitions into work? This question has occupied the minds of parents and young people, and also researchers and policy makers, as they face up to challenges presented by globalization and technological change. The...

Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise. In spite of growing media attention and new academic research on the issue, older people often remain unrecognized as a subpopulation in public policy,...

An Inquiry Into The Poor Laws And Surplus Labor, And Their Mutual Reaction: With A Postscript (1833) is a book written by William Day. The book explores the relationship between the poor laws and surplus labor and how they interact with each other. Day...

Das Buch ""Die Internationale Vor Dem Reichstage Und Die Sociale Frage (1878)"" von Rudolph Schramm besch�����ftigt sich mit der sozialen Frage im Kontext der Internationalen Arbeiterassoziation (IAA) und deren Beziehung zum Reichstag. Der Autor...

""Die Erhaltung des Bauernstandes"" ist ein Buch von Georg Ratzinger, das 1883 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk behandelt die Bedeutung des Bauernstandes f�����r die Gesellschaft und die Notwendigkeit, diesen zu erhalten. Ratzinger argumentiert, dass...

The Poor And Their Relief is a book written by George Ensor in 1825. It is a comprehensive study of the poor laws and their implementation in England during the 18th and 19th centuries. The book examines the social, economic, and political factors that...

The Danish Poor Relief System: An Example For England is a book written by Edith Sellers and published in 1904. The book provides a detailed analysis of the Danish poor relief system and how it can serve as a model for the English system. The author...

Ownership of multiple homes has become increasingly popular throughout the Western world, with the UK and Ireland seeing a particular surge in recent years. Paris addresses the reasons why, and the effects, using case studies from Europe, Australia,...

This book is the first of its kind to apply social contextual analysis to the issue of poverty. It sets out detailed accounts of poverty based on original research and shows how understanding life contexts can give us a deeper understanding of the issue.

In this cross-disciplinary research David Ormandy and expert contributors explain the nature and development of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe. In-depth analysis provides new evidence of links between the health...

This book gives voice to the direct practice experience of social workers working in rural and remote contexts using Australia as the primary case-study. The authors undertake a qualitative research project, conducting in-depth interviews to examine...

Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, this book identifies our spiritual underdevelopment which is being reflected as self-centeredness and greed, as the root cause of conventional development's failure to...

The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban...

Why are some transnational public-private partnerships (PPPs) highly effective, while others are not? The contributors compare 21 transnational PPPs that seek to provide collective goods in the field of sustainable development.

Have you been called by God to stick out, act out, speak out? Are you ready to set aside comfort and privilege for meaning and impact? Scott Bessenecker profiles young Christians who have done just that, making radical commitments to seek justice and...

The world has needs. But God is greater than those needs, and he works through his people to accomplish healing and transformation. This ten-session curriculum from World Relief is designed to mobilize the church to engage the great causes of our day,...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gradual widening of scientific and policy debates on poverty from a narrow focus on income poverty to a more inclusive concept of social exclusion, has made poverty research both more interesting and more complicated...

Home is a complex and multifaceted concept. This book revisions how 'home' is used in social work literature by showing how it is positioned as being discursively represented, materially experienced and embodied, and multiply imagined as symbolic and...

The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and...

One of the most fundamental questions for social scientists involves diffusion events; simply put, how do ideas spread and why do people embrace them? In Diffusion of Good Government: Social Sector Reforms in Brazil, Natasha Borges Sugiyama examines why...

This book analyzes national anti-poverty measures at a local level via a set of unique and up-to-date empirical studies of minimum income support schemes and activation measures in five European cities. In examining this 'local welfare system' approach,...

Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Combining insights from psychology, political science and labour market research, this book offers new...

Published in 1911, The New Republic: A Scheme to Abolish Poverty is a groundbreaking work of social theory that proposed a comprehensive plan to end poverty in America. Written by Charles Constantine McKeever, a leading social reformer of his day, the...

Taking an in-depth look at the causes of homelessness in the U.S., Blau debunks the convenient myths that most homeless are crazy, drug addicts, or lazy misfits who brought their suffering upon themselves. He argues that current government policies at...

The real solutions that lead to a marked change in the landscape of homelessness and how communities can follow Switchpoint's tactics and methods for a sustainable impact.Ending homelessness requires individuals and organizations to drop the ego and...

Street people and street life in photographs and stories by the author of Stop Requested, Dollar Halloween, and The Last Coloring Book. I Need Real Tuxedo and a Top Hat! is available as a trade softcover and in a deluxe expanded...

Since its publication in the early 90s, Brenda Boardman's Fuel Poverty has been the reference text for those wishing to learn about this complex subject. In this, its successor, she turns a critical eye to the new millennium and finds that the situation,...

"Your reward in reading this intriguing book will be what you will inevitably find to be new, surprising and important." --Michael Adams, author of Fire and IceThis fascinating new book explores Canada's progress in dealing with a number of...

In this exciting, thought-provoking new book, author Eric Weissman draws on personal experience, firsthand empirical research, and social theory to probe the causes and consequences of homelessness.Hundreds of thousands of North Americans are homeless...

Pretreatment Across Multiple Fields of Practice: Trauma Informed Approach to Homelessness and BeyondJay and Louise Levy and their co-authors have distilled years of diverse experience serving people with complex psychological and physical needs into a...

Cómo un grupo de voluntarios comprometidos liderados por un ingeniero aeroespacial retirado construyó un refugio para personas sin hogar en una comunidad de la ebre del oro y cómo la élite nanciera y del poder lo cerró. ¿Fue porque Hangtown Haven fue...

Ungleichheit führt zu einer tiefen sozialen Kluft in der Demokratie und gefährdet den sozialen Zusammenhalt. Ökonomische Unsicherheit schmälert das Vertrauen und behindert politische Mitbestimmung. "Mit meiner Stimme kann ich bei Wahlen die Zukunft...