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Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century
ISBN: 9780822351818 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the Second World War, the idea that local community action was indispensable for the alleviation of poverty was broadly embraced by US policymakers, social scientists, international development specialists, and grassroots activists. Governmental efforts to mobilize community action in the name of democracy served as a volatile condition of possibility for poor people and dispossessed groups negotiating the tension between calls for self-help and demands for self-determination in the era of the Cold War and global decolonization. In Poverty in Common, Alyosha Goldstein suggests...
After the Second World War, the idea that local community action was indispensable for the alleviation of poverty was broadly embraced by US policymak...
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social panorama of latin america
ISBN: 9789211217544 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latin America has extremely high levels of social and economic inequality as well as insufficient social expenditure despite registering the highest growth in per capita GDP since the 70s. This work provides the latest estimates for the countries of Latin America regarding poverty, residential segregation, impact of social expenditure on peoples well-being and psycho-social divides. It also analyses internal migrations as well as health programmes for indigenous people and women.
Latin America has extremely high levels of social and economic inequality as well as insufficient social expenditure despite registering the highest g...
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The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
ISBN: 9780226901268 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, Wilson offers essential information and a number of solutions to policymakers. "The Truly Disadvantaged" is a wide-ranging examination, looking at the relationship between race, employment, and education from the 1950s onwards, with surprising and provocative findings. This second edition also includes a new afterword from... Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of... |
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Welfare's Forgotten Past: A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law
ISBN: 9780415685788 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. That 'poor law was law' is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not simply local custom, but consisted of legal rights, duties and obligations that went beyond social altruism. This legal 'truth' is, however, still ignored or rejected by some historians, and thus 'lost' to social welfare policy-makers. This forgetting or minimising of a legal, enforceable... That 'poor law was law' is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. ... |
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223,87 |
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The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries
ISBN: 9781453764510 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,78 |
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The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India
ISBN: 9781463780760 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amidst the growing prosperity of India, there is an entire generation of parentless children growing up. They are everywhere. They fill the streets, the railway stations, the shanty villages. Some scrounge through trash for newspapers, rags or anything they can sell at traffic intersections. Others, often as young as two or three years old, beg. Many are homeless, overflowing orphanages and other institutional homes to live on the streets where they are extremely vulnerable to being trafficked into child labor if they're lucky, brothels if they're not. They are invisible children; their...
Amidst the growing prosperity of India, there is an entire generation of parentless children growing up. They are everywhere. They fill the streets, t...
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How The Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (with 100+ endnotes)
ISBN: 9781470004477 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WHAT'S NEW IN THIS EDITION
- 123 new endnotes that provide insight to the contemporary reader to understand the historical, political and social context of Riis's story. - Edited by Lorenzo Dominguez, bestselling author and award winning New York City street photographer whose book 25Lessions I've Learned about Photography, is the #1 bestselling essay on Amazon in 2010 & 2011. - New author biography and short publication history, not available in other versions. - All the original illustrations and photos have been restored. - A bonus gallery of the photos that inspired... WHAT'S NEW IN THIS EDITION
- 123 new endnotes that provide insight to the contemporary reader to understand the historical, political and social c... |
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Migrants and Their Money: Surviving Financial Exclusion
ISBN: 9781847428431 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Migrants and Their Money" chronicles the financial practices of low-paid migrant men and women living and working in London, within the context of the recent financial meltdown. Drawing on the fascinating stories and experiences of these migrants, Kavita Datta illuminates the ways both formal and informal they negotiate the complex financial landscape they encounter in one of the world s economic capitals."
"Migrants and Their Money" chronicles the financial practices of low-paid migrant men and women living and working in London, within the context of... |
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The Persistence of Poverty Across Generations: A View from Two British Cohorts
ISBN: 9781861348524 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The recent focus on reducing the extent of child poverty in the UK stems mainly from worries about the future consequences of poverty on children's later achievement. With this background in mind, it is clearly crucial to improve our understanding of the costs of growing up poor. This report explores the strength of the link between childhood poverty and poverty later in life, and asks whether this link has grown stronger or weaker in recent decades. This report uses information on the incomes of two British cohorts to address the following questions: how large is the transmission of poverty...
The recent focus on reducing the extent of child poverty in the UK stems mainly from worries about the future consequences of poverty on children's la...
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Household Spending in Britain: What Can It Teach Us about Poverty?
ISBN: 9781861348548 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much of the recent policy debate surrounding poverty in Britain focuses on income as a measure of living standards. In this report we consider one alternative to income for measuring poverty that has been largely overlooked in the mainstream poverty debate in the UK: namely household expenditure. Economic theory suggests that household expenditure is an important measure of financial well-being. Using 30 years of data from household surveys, this report shows the trends in poverty in Britain since the 1970s when household expenditure is used as a measure of financial well-being, rather than...
Much of the recent policy debate surrounding poverty in Britain focuses on income as a measure of living standards. In this report we consider one alt...
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Child Poverty in Large Families
ISBN: 9781861348760 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The UK child poverty rate for large families is among the highest in the OECD. This study investigates the prevalence and characteristics of poor children in large families in the UK and how we compare with other countries. It also explores how the tax and benefit system has varied by family size over recent years and how this in turn compares with other countries. Given the UK government's commitment to the abolition of child poverty by 2020, the report discusses how the tax and benefit system might be adapted in favour of large families so that this target might be achieved.The work is...
The UK child poverty rate for large families is among the highest in the OECD. This study investigates the prevalence and characteristics of poor chil...
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Policy Programme Options for Urban Poverty Reduction: A Framework for Action at the Municipal Level
ISBN: 9780821337165 / Angielski / Miękka / 55 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Pauper Capital: London and the Poor Law, 1790-1870
ISBN: 9780754630081 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few measures, if any, could claim to have had a greater impact on British society than the poor law. As a comprehensive system of relieving those in need, the poor law provided relief for a significant proportion of the population but influenced the behaviour of a much larger group that lived at or near the margins of poverty. It touched the lives of countless numbers of individuals not only as paupers but also as ratepayers, guardians, officials and magistrates. This system underwent significant change in the nineteenth century with the shift from the old to the new poor law. The extent to...
Few measures, if any, could claim to have had a greater impact on British society than the poor law. As a comprehensive system of relieving those in n...
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730,17 |
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Absolute Poverty and Global Justice: Empirical Data - Moral Theories - Initiatives
ISBN: 9780754678496 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Absolute poverty causes about one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease. Developing universalizable norms aimed at tackling absolute poverty and the complex and multilayered problems associated with it, this book considers the levels, trends and determinants of absolute poverty and global inequality. Examining whether much faster progress against absolute poverty is possible through reductions in national and global inequalities that produce economic growth for poor countries and households, this book suggests that diverse...
Absolute poverty causes about one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease. Developi...
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Between the Social and the Spatial: Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Poverty and Social Exclusion
ISBN: 9780754679257 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gradual widening of scientific and policy debates on poverty from a narrow focus on income poverty to a more inclusive concept of social exclusion, has made poverty research both more interesting and more complicated. This transition to a more multidimensional conceptualization of poverty forms the background and starting point of this book. Researchers studying the 'social' and 'spatial' dimensions of poverty have only started to challenge and explore the boundaries of each other's research perspectives and instruments. This book brings together these...
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gradual widening of scientific and policy debates on poverty from a narrow focus on income poverty to a more inc...
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100 Ways to Make Poverty History: An Action Kit to Change Your World
ISBN: 9781853116834 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On every page of this book is a simple action plan for making poverty history - 100 simple but effective ideas that will make a real difference to the way that millions of people live in the developing world. From getting your local newspaper involved to making personal choices about shopping, food and travel, everyone who buys this book can play an active part in changing the world for the better. Every page includes step-by-step instructions with telephone numbers, website addresses and detailed advice on how to get your message heard.
On every page of this book is a simple action plan for making poverty history - 100 simple but effective ideas that will make a real difference to the...
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Occupational Welfare: Winner and Losers
ISBN: 9781845429690 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Occupational welfare is becoming increasingly important in Europe. This book presents valuable new data on occupational welfare and its development, and questions not only the traditional clustering of welfare states, but also the analyses of welfare states in terms of public sector spending and involvement. By investigating the impact of occupational welfare on public finances, distribution and labour market behaviour, the author provides an original and significant addition to the existing literature on welfare state analysis, and offers basis for a new understanding of European welfare...
Occupational welfare is becoming increasingly important in Europe. This book presents valuable new data on occupational welfare and its development, a...
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Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe
ISBN: 9781843763406 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are estimated to be almost 60 million people living in poverty throughout the European Union. This bleak statistic underlines the value of this book which explores the nature and extent of poverty and social exclusion in six European countries, namely: Austria, Germany, Greece, Norway, Portugal and the UK. The book focuses on four "life course" groups who might be considered particularly at risk: young adults, lone parents, the sick and disabled, and the retired. The authors show how poverty is the outcome of the interaction between several factors including education, gender and family...
There are estimated to be almost 60 million people living in poverty throughout the European Union. This bleak statistic underlines the value of this ...
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Economic Instruments of Pollution Control in an Imperfect World: Theory and Implications for Carbon Dioxide Emissions Control in China
ISBN: 9781843766254 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume discusses the wider issues of economic instruments of pollution control as well as paying specific attention to the control of carbon dioxide emissions in China. The book begins with a general analysis of economic instruments of pollution control, and is followed by the application of these in CO2 emission control. The former presents the discussion of pollution control policies in general equilibrium settings, focusing on the comparison of pollution taxes and tradeable permits in certain kind of circumstances with imperfections such as uncertainty and pre-existing distortions. An...
This volume discusses the wider issues of economic instruments of pollution control as well as paying specific attention to the control of carbon diox...
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The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy
ISBN: 9781849800952 / Angielski / Miękka / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, achieving extensive thematic as well as geographical coverage. This benchmark volume presents women's and men's experiences of gendered poverty with respect to a vast spectrum of intersecting issues including local to global economic transformations, family, age, 'race', migration, assets, paid and unpaid work, health, sexuality, human rights, and conflict and...
In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diver...
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