Poverty & Homelessness

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807020579Author Alison OwingsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Women's rough sleeping is a major issue across Europe and is especially problematic within the current economic climate. Based on a European Union DAPHNE III-funded project, this important book tells the story of the women and organisations that took...

The largest UK research study on poverty and social exclusion ever conducted reveals startling levels of deprivation. 18m people are unable to afford adequate housing; 14m can't afford essential household goods; and nearly half the population have some...

In "The Truly Disadvantaged", renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353045Author Julie WarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction).Book InformationISBN 9780812986952Author Andrea ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher...

Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence The "closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted" (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Under a White Sky) story of climate migration in the United States-the personal stories of...

Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to...

The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century - why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? Based on his decades-long research...

The first hand stories in this book, collected through The Children's Society's campaign The Debt Trap, offer a unique understanding of life for families and children fighting a daily battle against poverty and debt.About the AuthorSorcha Mahony is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623178840Author Kevin F. AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541742390Author Muhammad YunusFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593432Author C J StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 393g

How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different...

Social protection is fast becoming an important theme in development policy. This book examines the political processes shaping social protection policies; compares the key conceptual frameworks available for analyzing social protection; and provides a...

Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights collects thirteen new essays that analyze how human agency relates to poverty and human rights respectively as well as how agency mediates issues concerning poverty and social and economic human rights. No other...

When most Americans think of poverty, they imagine Black faces. As a teenager, Reverend William J Barber II recalls seeing Black mothers interviewed on television whenever there was a story on food stamps or unemployment; poverty, then as now, was...

Does 'real' poverty still exist in Britain? How do people differentiate between the supposed 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor? Is there a culture of worklessness passed down from generation to generation? Bringing together historical and contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Helen Bernstein Book Award 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780375753824Author William FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605207353Author Henry MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 546Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 757gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

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. The author's message is stark: there is little chance of...

Young homeless people are ordinary young people trapped in an extraordinary situation. This accessible guide provides information and advice on how to understand the needs of these young people, and how to ensure they are supported effectively. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (Nonfiction) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780743254434Author Adrian Nicole LeBlancFormat PaperbackPage Count...

The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, and Vancouver...

"Enthralling; it is well worth the trip." --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blackwell's Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of...

Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by...

About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse-with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936192311Author Hyman P MinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Center for Curatorial Studies/Bard CollegePublisher Center for Curatorial...

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Footwork is an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, it shows how urban modernisation, development and...

A deconstruction of the neoliberal placations about global capitalism, exposing the inequalities of global poverty "We're making headway on global poverty," trills Bill Gates. "Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues," reports the World Bank. "How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815702825Author Jessica CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851243757Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

The Fair Trade Scandal takes aim at the Fair Trade consumer movement which many assume to be entirely benign. Through a razor-sharp analysis based on insider knowledge, Ndongo Sylla shows that there is a big gap between the rhetoric of Fair Trade and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633912700Author Max J SkidmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860702Author Tuen VoetenFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 475g

In the world's most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated surplus food, dependent on corporate food waste, to millions of hungry people? While recognizing the moral imperative to feed hungry people, this...

Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for...

'A mesmerising book, full of story, truth, pain, lyricism, humour and astonishment: the stuff of a difficult life, fully lived, and masterfully transformed into art' SALMAN RUSHDIE'Intimate and wise, poignant and compassionate, redemptive and raw. You...