Consumption of Inequality, The: Weapons of Mass Distraction
by Karen Bettez Halnon
Beyond the threshold
This collection of work has been produced as a result of a major 1994 UK seminar on the measurement and analysis of social exclusion, sponsored by the European Commission and the UK Department of Social Security. There are contributions from a wide range of academics with varying backgrounds. Three main concerns are targeted: the conceptualisation of social exclusion; the measurement of social exclusion; the indicators for monitoring the effectiveness of policies for combating social exclusion...
Creating Action Space
Connecting Technology and Regeneration Aspirations
by Alex Burfitt, Ed Ferrari, John Gibney, Stewart MacNeill, and Andy Tice
A century ago, Seebohm Rowntree, inspired by the work of Charles Booth and of his own father, Joseph Rowntree, embarked on a lengthy investigation of poverty in York. He and his team talked to poor and working class people in the city to find out what they spent their money on, and the extent to which they could afford what he defined as the minimum necessities (which did not, as far as he was concerned, include alcohol). He gathered an extraordinary range of statistics. His work was hugely infl...
What to Do When Your Family Can't Afford Health Care (Let's Work It Out) (Let's Work It Out (Paper))
by Rachel Lynette
By tracking a group of qualified but socio-economically disadvantaged young people, this study identifies the factors which impact upon their HE careers. It examines factors that govern levels of success as well as those that impede the progress of academically able but disadvantaged young people. The study uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to follow the progress of 395 young people from schools located in disadvantaged areas. It identifies factors that hinder their progress as w...
Woven throughout with rich details of everyday life, this original, on-the-ground study of poor neighborhoods challenges much prevailing wisdom about urban poverty, shedding new light on the people, institutions, and culture in these communities. Over the course of nearly a decade, Martin Sanchez-Jankowski immersed himself in life in neighborhoods in New York and Los Angeles to investigate how social change and social preservation transpire among the urban poor.Looking at five community mainstay...
On lit beaucoup de choses sur l'Afrique, souvent peu encourageantes. Au quotidien, le monde entend parler des maladies, du desespoir et de la mort. Une telle litanie de souffrances n'est pas sans fondement, mais il y a aussi des histoires d'espoir, des promesses et du potentiel. Elles aussi representent une part tres importante de l'histoire complexe de l'Afrique subsaharienne (ASS) dans les premieres annees du XXIeme siecle. Tout comme il existe de multiples histoires, il faut donc des perspect...
Today's globalised world means offshore finance, airport boutiques and high-speed Internet for some people, against dollar-a-day wages, used t-shirts, and illiteracy for others. How do these highly skewed global distributions happen, and what can be done to counter them? New Rules for Global Justice engages with widespread public disquiet around global inequality. It explores (mal)distributions in relation to country, class, gender and race, with international examples drawn from Australia to Z...
Stand-up comedian Jacob Hawley explores every corner of the UK drugs scene, from nightclubs to prisonsIn his first BBC radio series, New Comedy Award finalist Jacob Hawley examines one of the most important issues affecting young people today, looking into every aspect of British drug culture to discover its scope and effects. As a recreational drugs user for almost a decade, Jacob thought he knew more than most about the topic - but was shocked by how much he still had to learn.Beginning with a...
Welfare Reform in Rural Places (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, #15)
Research on welfare has tended to focus on the national scale with relatively little attention given to the differential impacts of welfare restructuring in rural places and the difficulties faced by disadvantaged groups with limited provision of welfare services in many rural areas. This book seeks to significantly extend previous research work on the rural impacts of national welfare reform and position it in a broader context. "International Perspectives on Rural Welfare" provides a critical,...
Originally published in 1993, this book traces how governments in France, Germany, Britain, Denmark and Ireland became involved in replacing industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise, high-density concrete estates. As the book considers each country’s housing history and traditions, and analyses the contrasting structures and systems, it finds convergence of problems in the growing tensions of their most disadvantaged communities. The book underlines the continuing drift towards deep...
Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction (New Gender Mainstreaming Series on Development Issues)
by MS Martha Alter Chen, Joann Vanek, and Marilyn Carr
Attacking Extreme Poverty: Learning from the Experience of the International Movement Atd Fourth World
by Quentin Wodon
Tropical deforestation and rural poverty are among the major apprehensions of developing nations in the 21st century. The protectionist paradigm that had dominated nature conservation since the 19th century is replaced by a strong notion that poverty reduction and environmental protection should go hand in hand. Decentralization is among the key polices devised to achieve these dual objectives of forest governance. This book presents the role decentralized forest governance can contribute to add...