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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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Achieving the united nations sustainable development goals
Cutting through the huge volume of literature for each of the SDGs as 2030 closes in, this immensely readable primer makes sense of the state of play for some of the most pressing existential questions of our time.
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Affliction
Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. It traces the unfolding of illness within families, local communities, neighborhood markets and in occult worlds. Privileging the experience of people li...
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An end to poverty?
In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed bringing poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States, political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and Antoine-Nicolas Condorcet argued that all cit...
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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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Between ocean and city
Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this narrow peninsula between the ocean and the bay became some of New York City's worst slums. A historian who grew up in the community and his wife, a s...
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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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Building postcarbon futures
This book offers the first comprehensive account of the myriad ways in which people are transforming their social, ecological, and economic systems to create more just, beautiful places in response to the climate crisis.
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Bulldozed
Jessie Speer interweaves an ethnographic account of the lives of unhoused people in Fresno, California, with an investigation of why cities across the United States have turned to what she calls the “bulldozer approach” to homelessness.
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Child poverty, youth (un)employment, and social inclusion
Worldwide child and youth poverty remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty, youth une...
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Children living in transition
Sharing the daily struggles of children and families residing in transitional situations (homelessness or because of risk of homelessness, being connected with the child welfare system, or being new immigrants in temporary housing), this text recommends strategies for delivering mental health and...
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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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Conservatorship
This book is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning—and failings—of California’s conservatorship system, drawing on hundreds of interviews with professionals, policy makers, families, and conservatees.
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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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Criminal of poverty
A daughter's struggle to keep her family alive through poverty, homelessness, and incarceration.
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Debt trap nation
This blistering expose takes the reader inside England's national scandal of homelessness to reveal how government choices have forced single mothers and their families into impossible hardship with hundreds of thousands of children living in temporary accommodation for months, years and sometime...
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Dispatches from the threshold
Tenants narrate their struggles for housing justice as the catastrophes of COVID-19, precarity, and racist police violence converge.
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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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Entrepreneurship and the sustainable development goals
Given the compelling need to understand how entrepreneurship can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and be appropriately guided, this book explores how entrepreneurial thinking and action can support social change, and investigates alternative entrepreneurship approaches by drawing ...
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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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Families in economically hard times
The purpose of the edited collection Families in Economically Hard Times: Experiences and Coping Strategies in Europe is to provide readers with unique sociological knowledge on European families' experiences and behavioural strategies a decade after economic crisis of the 21st century.
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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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Finding answers in land
Designed for policymakers, planners and practitioners, community leaders, and others, this guidebook offers an array of practical and proven land policy strategies and solutions.
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From state capitols to city halls
This work examines the crucial relationships between states and their constituent cities, illustrates how states have hindered equitable revitalization, and offers principles to guide state policy reform with an intentional focus on racial equity.
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Gangs and society
Compiled by three leading experts in the psychological, sociological, and criminal justice fields, this volume addresses timely questions from an eclectic range of positions. The product of a landmark conference on gangs, Gangs and Society brings together the work of academics, activists, and com...
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Globalizing the streets
Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community. Yet today the dispossessed are responding to the challenges of globalization and its methods of social control. The contributors to this volume examine th...
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Good people
Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire, along with Rabbit Hole director and Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan, return to MTC.
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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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Handbook of social work practice with vulnerable and resilient populations
When community and family support systems are weak or unavailable, and when internal resources fail, populations that struggle with chronic, persistent, acute, and/or unexpected problems become vulnerable to physical, cognitive, emotional, and social deterioration. Yet despite numerous risk facto...
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Homes of the homeless
This book examines the image of home as experienced and expressed by the men and women who are affected by the crisis of homelessness and live in specialized institutions. Inga B. Kuźma focuses on describing and interpreting the stories of people from homeless centers who speak about the ups and ...
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Housing and the democratic ideal
Charles Abrams (1902-1970) stood at the center of the policies, problems, and politics surrounding urban planning, housing reform, and the public and private interests involved in the expansion of the American state. He uniquely combined in one person the often divergent roles of "public" and "po...
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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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Land of stark contrasts
An important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today’s most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound ro...
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Life underground
Beneath the surface of Manhattan’s Riverside Park run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people took shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams ventured into the tunnel residents’ world, seeking to understand life on the margins and out of sight.
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Living wages and the welfare state
Are living wages an unaffordable and unwieldy aspiration or a key progressive reform? Demands for fair minimum incomes have dominated national debates amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This topical book addresses the rapidly shifting politics of minimum wages in US, the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Irelan...
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Mayor's desk
In this collection of interviews, 20 mayors from five continents share their strategies for tackling global challenges at the local level.
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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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Mixed-income housing development planning strategies and frameworks in the global south
Functioning as a toolkit for inclusive urban planning, this book acts as both a model for understanding the planning and management of this framework, and a foundation for future research.
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New strategies for social innovation
This book is the first to assess emerging market-based social change approaches comparatively, focusing specifically on social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, and private sustainable development
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On the edge
On the Edge probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic uncertainty has generated.
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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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