Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Poverty & Homelessness

"Rich and Poor in America: A Reference Handbook" provides an in-depth analysis of--and possible solutions for--the growing disparity between those at the top of the economic ladder and everyone else, a disparity that has reached its highest level since the 1920s.

Expertly researched and written, "Rich and Poor in America" explores a wide range of explanations for the trend that undercuts the U.S.'s "Land of Opportunity" image, including heavy immigration, weakening labor unions, globalization, and technological change. Separate chapters look at the issue chronologically and from a...

Reduce, reuse, and recycle is not a new concept. Many Black Americans have been doing this out of necessity for years. In addition to learning how to use limited resources creatively and imaginatively, Blacks learned to survive on simplicity--a lesson in living "green" for those who had no other choice. Karla Cooper explores the survival strategies of Black Americans through her own family's history in rural southern Missouri.

Cooper is an African Methodist Episcopal itinerant elder with dual standing in the United Church of Christ. She serves as an adjunct professor at Doane College...

London in the eighteenth century was the greatest city in the world. It was a magnet that drew men and women from the rest of England in huge numbers. For a few the streets were paved with gold, but for the majority it was a harsh world with little guarantee of money or food. For the poor and destitute, London's streets offered little more than the barest living. Yet men, women and children found a great variety of ways to eke out their existence, sweeping roads, selling matches, singing ballads and performing all sorts of menial labor. Many of these activities, apart from the direct...

This book brings together a set of distinguished academics and activists to analyze, critique, and debate the global politics of poverty and justice and the contemporary nature of globalization.

It examines the connections between 'really existing globalization', global capitalism, and global poverty, and the idea of and prospects for 'global justice' now and in the future. Identifying continuing contradictions between the stated aims of the reigning global economic orthodoxy and the actual consequences of these policies in relation to alleviation of severe poverty and injustice,...