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  • Behind from the Start

    How America's War on the Poor is Harming Our Most Vulnerable Children

    by Lenette Azzi-Lessing ...
    Today there are nearly six million children under the age of five living in poverty in the world's richest country. Blanket statements are often tossed around in the political arena, public debate sphere, and progressive rhetoric. But the statistic remains intangible for many Americans, likely because the root causes, effects, and implications are multifaceted and complex, and are often hard to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

    by Virginia Eubanks ...
    WINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeAstra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: "The single most important book about technology you will read this year."Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read."A powerful investigati... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • Blaming the Victim

    by William Ryan ...
    The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves about race, poverty and the poor.Here are three myths about poverty in America:– Minority children perform poorly in school because they are “culturally deprived.”– African-Americans are handicapped by a family structure that is typically unstable and matriarchal.– Poor people suffer from bad health because of ignorance and lack of interest ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Researching Resilience

    Edited by Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar ...
    While categorization has always been one of the primary focuses of the social sciences, recent trends within these disciplines have tended to categorize various behaviours as disorders. Researching Resilience challenges this tendency to pathologize, and marks a profound shift in research methods from the study of disorder to the study of well-being.This collection assembles qualitative and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Children and Sustainable Development

    Ecological Education in a Globalized World

    Edited by Antonio M. Battro, Pierre Léna, Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Joachim von Braun ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses the changes in education practices, especially basic education, necessitated by the global challenges of climate change and sustainable development and in a context characterized by increasing poverty and inequality, migration and refugees.Written by a range of international scholars, scientists and grassroots practitioners from Africa, Latin America, Asia (India, China, ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Lives on the Edge

    Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America

    by Valerie Polakow ...
    One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and "infantilization" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow asks, is poverty seen as a private issue, and how can public policy fail to take responsibility for the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Guidance Note

    Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban Projects

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Guidance Notes
    Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades. Investments in urban areas have a strong potential to contribute to inclusive growth, reduce urban poverty, and strengthen social resilience. The Guidance Note on Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban Projects aims to assist Asian Development Bank (ADB) staff, including practitioners and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Supervising Child Protection Practice: What Works?

    An Evidence Informed Approach

    by Lynne McPherson, Noel Macnamara ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a model of supervision that is based on both contemporary theory and research, which is strongly contextualized to child and family social work. It draws directly from analysis of in-depth interviews with experienced and post graduate qualified supervisors and supervisees about ‘what works’ in supervision. These findings bring ‘news of difference’ in relation to social work ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • The Assault on Social Policy

    by William Roth, Susan Peters ...
    Based on incisive analyses of economic globalization, class, politics, and bureaucracy, The Assault on Social Policy examines the ordinary speech used to make poverty and extreme inequality seem acceptable, the corporate strategies co-opting the distribution of wealth and other resources, and the negative effect of these efforts on our more vulnerable citizens, such as those with disabilities, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Investing in Children

    Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries

    Edited by Ariel Kalil, Ron Haskins, Jenny Chesters ...
    Investing in Children: Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human capital development.The volume is organized around three major issues: parental employment, early ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Poor Women in Rich Countries

    The Feminization of Poverty Over the Life Course

    Edited by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg ...
    The first book to study women's poverty over the life course, this wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women--while also considering partnered women and immigrants--in eight wealthy but diverse countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In a rich analysis of labor market and social ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Color of Welfare

    How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty

    by Jill Quadagno ...
    Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing our tradition of individual freedom and libertarian values, while others point to weaknesses within ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD