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A war on global poverty
A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of US involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the decline of modernization programs to th...
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Abolish rent
Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, ...
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After prison
This collection explores the relationship between offending, reentry, and employment, and barriers encountered in securing a rewarding job after prison. Interviews, statistics, and literature highlight how employment assumes considerable meaning for former prisoners that can foster successful rei...
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Aporophobia
Why “aporophobia”—rejection of the poor—is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight itIn this revelatory book, acclaimed political philosopher Adela Cortina makes an unprecedented assertion: the biggest problem facing the world today is the rejection of poor p...
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Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of no poverty
The case studies presented generate insights and key takeaways into the role of family businesses in ending poverty and tackling its growing inequality detrimental to economic growth, social cohesion, stability, and peace.
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Brazil's dance with the devil
The leading US commentator on the politics of sports explores the coming Olympics in Brazil.
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Breaking the poverty code
Transcending the Mexican context, this book fuses the importance of statistical data with the lived realities of impoverished people everywhere.
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Class and inequality in the united states
Highlighting the need to find solutions for current problems in American society moving forward, Berch Berberoglu provides a captivating read for anyone interested in understanding how working people today can have a lasting impact on a better and more equitable society in the future.
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Climbing mount laurel
A close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decisionUnder the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affor...
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Creating pathways for prosperity
This collected edition provides practical and effective strategies to fight poverty and advance long-term sustainable development. Authors aim to close the gap between research and practice by offering practical advice and best practices for tackling poverty in an inclusive and sustainable manner.
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Economic gangsters
Getting inside the heads of the developing world’s dictators, warlords, and corrupt politiciansMeet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him—he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chi...
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Empowering communities
Empowering Communities: A Roadmap to Poverty Alleviation in South Africa provides a comprehensive analysis of the structural barriers that sustain poverty while offering a strategic framework for breaking the cycle.
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Faces of state terrorism
Terrorism is usually discussed as the actions of individuals. This book argues that Governments carry out most acts of terrorism.
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Famine
Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society. Mass starvation--whether it is inflicted by drought or engineered by misguided or genocidal economic policies--devastates families, weakens the social fabric, and undermines political stability. Cormac Ó Gráda, the acclaimed au...
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Guilty of indigence
In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines...
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Intersecting inequalities in jamaica and beyond
This volume explores the multifaceted nature of inequality in Jamaica and other Latin American and Caribbean countries, offering nuanced solutions to address the persistently high inequality in the Global South.
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Justice in the city
Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’ framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That is, in a community thus conceived, the pri...
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Love in india
This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.
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Microfinance and development in emerging economies
Using India as a case study, Microfinance and Development in Emerging Economies builds and evidences an argument that microfinance and group lending are the best way to combat and address the economic exclusion that blights so many across the Global South.
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Migrants and machine politics
How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanizationAs the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants ...
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Poor workers' unions
Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative labor organizing.
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Portfolios of the poor
Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, m...
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Poverty and development
This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to broaden understandings of poverty. It contains empirical and conceptual chapters on a range of topics highlighting the relationship between poverty and sustainability. It will be a helpful resource for students and researchers of sustain...
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Poverty and discrimination
Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast liter...
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Radical hope
In this seminal book, Krumer-Nevo introduces the Poverty-Aware Paradigm: a radical new framework for social workers and professionals working with and for people in poverty. The author defines the core components of the Poverty-Aware Paradigm, explicates its embeddedness in key theories in pover...
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Rural social infrastructure development in india
A compelling call to action for development impact on a global scale, this mission-driven work brings us one step closer to building a more inclusive India.
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Rx appalachia
An account of radical responses to the opioid crisis facing women in Central Appalachia.
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Social change, resistance and social practices
From post-Katrina struggles to Muslim women refusing to unveil, the logic of a new generation of protest is emerging
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The financial diaries
The ideal of the American Dream seems increasingly out of reach, even for many families who are trying to do everything right. To find out why, Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider followed 235 low- and middle-income families as they navigated a year of ups and downs. Through the groundbreaking ...
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The financialization of human shelter
The Financialization of Human Shelter examines the factors contributing to the sharp rise in rental housing costs in the US, the financialization of housing, and the consequences for tenants.
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The future of work
Sotelo offers an insightful analysis of the paradigmatic transformation of labor relations under neoliberalism.
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The richer, the poorer
The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. This landmark book shows how, for 200 years, Britain’s most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakene...
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The shame game
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 misleading account has become deeply embedded in the...
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Understanding the multi-dimensional nature of poverty
The authors of this edited collection take a holistic approach to poverty, recognizing interconnected factors on a global scale. This timely collection aids in developing more effective strategies for combating poverty and fostering a fairer, more prosperous future.
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Understanding the vehicles of capitalist hegemony in latin america
In recent decades, Latin America has grappled with crises, conflicts, and inherent contradictions deeply rooted in the capitalist fabric of social relations. In his groundbreaking research, author Daniel Felipe López Pérez delves into the historical foundations of enduring capitalist hegemonies a...
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Unearthing the institutionalised social exclusion of black youth in contemporary south africa
South Africa is often dubbed a young nation, with youth making up 35.7% of the population. But are its institutions set up to include all young people equitably? Kubeka highlights how the social exclusion of impoverished black youth in South Africa remains deeply entrenched within the key institu...
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