Poverty & Homelessness

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...

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...

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...

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...

'The definitive account of the history of poverty finance' - Susanne Soederberg Finance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the...

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.

In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublin's tenements. If it weren't for his work the lives of these everyday heroines would be lost forever. Based on 30 years of research spent...

Originally published in 1979, this book was the first to provide a comprehensive political-economic analysis of the historical origins and 20th Century experience of state housing in the UK. The first part describes the growth of municipal housebuilding...

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 *...

This fascinating volume explores all aspects of life in that dread institution, the workhouse. From the staff who lived and worked here to the lunatics who were kept - sometimes unsuccessfully - in the medical wing, the babies and mothers whose lives...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award 2017 and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2017 and Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award...

"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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Originally published in 1987, this book provides a comprehensive history of housing policy in Britain from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of the 1970s. For every period the author gives a detailed account of the housing situation in...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134114Author Raynor WinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm *...

The economic depression of the interwar period marks a fundamental turning-point in Welsh history, and in particular the history of south Wales, when decades of breakneck industrialisation, urbanisation and in-migration came to an end and were followed...

World poverty is both an intractable and ever-mutable problem. It has afflicted humanity since the earliest times, but its basic features -- aside from the constant, want -- have evolved as history has moved from epoch to epoch. Today, there is broad...

Often portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept, with a range of groups in society excluded from a 'right to home' under current UK policies. Drawing on resident interviews and analysis of...

A compelling look at the historical roots of poverty and homelessness, the "worthy" and "unworthy" poor, and the role of charity health care and public policy in the United States.Home to over 730,000 people, with close to four million people living in...

After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfilment centre outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers and the staff turnover...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528038Author Patrick Saint-PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063239494Author Kathryn J. EdinFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787356566Author Rebecca O'ConnellFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 550g

A CLASSIC THAT WILL IGNITE THE NEXT ECONOMIC REVOLUTION Hailed as "the guide to capitalism," the New York Times bestseller Wealth and Poverty by George F. Gilder is one of the most famous economic books of all time and has sold more than one million...

After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover...

A billion people, roughly half of all city dwellers in the developing world, live in squatter settlements. The most famous of these settlements are the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which have existed for more than half a century and continue to outpace the...