Poverty & Homelessness

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838471941Author Deborah PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Guts PublishingPublisher Guts Publishing

Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery-working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase Spinoza, why do people fight to be exploited as if it...

Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter this growing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939375032Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Sabino Falls PublishingPublisher Sabino Falls PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it. "Clear, cogent and persuasive" - Fintan O'Toole ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739446512Author Robin JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Fertile ImaginationPublisher Fertile ImaginationWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

The Right to Buy has had a massive impact on Housing in the UK for 35 years and in 2015 there were proposals to extend it. But what is the Right to Buy policy, how has it developed and what has its impact been? What evidence is there about the wider and...

'Elegant and disturbing. A brilliant analysis of the cruel biopolitics of care in contemporary Britain' - Ash Amin Of the many state-enacted cruelties to which refugees and asylum seekers are subjected, detention and deportation loom largest in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800644045Author Mathias NebelFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm)...

***Winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness******Winner of an RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction***'Part memoir, part howl of fury' GUARDIAN'Enrich[es] our impoverished sociological imagination' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Raw and...

Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this...

Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent - healthcare, education, pensions, benefits - is the centre of political and public debate. Much of that debate is dominated by the myth that the population...

This one stop resource highlights evidence-informed practice and serves as an accessible and invaluable resource for all working with individuals experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness and adult safeguarding. This book brings together the best...

The unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland is having profound impacts on Generation Rent, the wellbeing of children, worsening wider inequality and threatening the economy. Hearne contextualises the Irish housing crisis within the...

A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller with more than one million copies in print! Now a major motion picture. Gritty with pain, betrayal, and brutality, this incredible true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love.Meet...

They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish Travellers moved to England to make a better, safer life. They found places to...

Childhood poverty has moved from the periphery to the centre of the policy agenda following New Labour's pledge to end it within twenty years. However, whether the needs and concerns of poor children themselves are being addressed is open to question. ...

Inequalities in health, in terms of both empirical evidence and policies to tackle their reduction, are currently high on the research and political agendas. This reader provides two centuries of historical context to the current debate. Poverty,...

Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England's working class - an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism. In the 1930s, the Left Book Club, a socialist...

"Reads like a novel. . . . But it has the ring of truth, and an uplifting message that endures."-New York Times. Features a new foreword by the author and a heartfelt endorsement by Washington State's First Lady, Trudi Inslee!Once a happily married...

What does it mean to be poor in Britain and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or 'bad life decisions' rather than policy choices or economic inequality. This...

Aboveground, Manhattan's Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people have taken shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams...

In the five years since Money for Everyone was published the idea of a Citizen's Basic Income has rocketed in interest to an idea whose time has come. In moving the debate on from the desirability of a basic income this fully updated and revised...

'A sensitive expose that illustrates the complexities of modern homelessness. Moving, poetic and as rousing as Orwell' - Cash Carraway, author of Skint Estate'Urgent, gripping and devastating' - The Secret BarristerThis book will finally give a face...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789432510Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 563gDimensions(mm)...

In 1739, the London Foundling Hospital opened its doors to take in the abandoned children of the city. It was the culmination of seventeen years of campaigning by Captain Thomas Coram, driven by his horror at seeing children die in the streets. He was...

From his time as Captain of England's cricket team to his pioneering work as Bishop of Liverpool, David Sheppard led a remarkable life. Now his story is told in full for the first time in this fascinating and insightful biography. Batting for the Poor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714526638Author Ivan IllichFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 136g

A rigorously reported anthology on how local politics have fueled a generation-defining national emergency. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the...

Using extensive original research undertaken in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration in relation to key housing and urban policy debates. Using interviews which foreground the experiences and perspectives of estate residents...

Homeless.No other word better describes our modern-day suffering. It reveals one of our deepest and most painful conditions-not having a sense of belonging. However, Alan Graham, founder of Mobile Loaves & Fishes and Community First! Village, is...

The true story of a foundling. 'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the development of child psychology, part Cowan's own story, and part that of Cowan's mother' LUCY SCHOLES, TELEGRAPH Growing up in a...

A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society"-one that is both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528716802Author Charles DickensFormat HardbackPage Count 770Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 1120gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 46mm

Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation-these are the realities of 21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new middle class poor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984801456Author Tracy KidderFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544811959Author Kathryn J. EdinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 199gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Exploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional food aid and food poverty debates. It argues that the food aid industry is infused with neoliberal governmentality and shows how...

A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 'Impressive . . . tender,...