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  • The Conservative Governments and Social Policy

    de Nick Ellison, Ian Greener, Peter Squires, Anne Daguerre, David Etherington, Catherine Bochel, Val Gillies, Rosalind Edwards, Stephen J. Ball, Harriet Churchill, Andrew Defty, Steven Corbett, Jon Glasby, Ann Marie Gray, Stephen D. McKay, Karen Rowlingson, Kirstein Rummery, Peter Somerville ...
    Focusing on the policy approaches of Conservative governments since 2015, this book examines key social policy areas including education, health, housing, employment, children and young people, and more.Respected social policy researchers explore the degree to which the positions and policies of recent Conservative governments have differed from the previous Coalition government (2010–15). They ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Wealth and the Wealthy

    Exploring and Tackling Inequalities between Rich and Poor

    de Karen Rowlingson, Stephen D. McKay ...
    Wealth and the wealthy have received relatively little attention from social scientists despite a growing wealth gap. Aimed at a broad social science and public readership, this book draws on new data on wealth to answer the following key questions: What is wealth? Who has got it? Where might we draw a 'wealth line'? Who lies above it? And what might policy do about wealth and the wealthy? Using ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

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    Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America

    de Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    "Tim Wise is one of the great public moralists in America today. In his bracing new book, Under the Affluence, he brilliantly engages the roots and ramifications of radical inequality in our nation, carefully detailing the heartless war against the poor and the swooning addiction to the rich that exposes the moral sickness at the heart of our culture. Wise's stirring analysis of our predicament is ... Leer más

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  • A Thousand Dreams

    Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future

    de Larry Campbell, Neil Boyd, Lori Culbert ...
    In this mix of history, journalism, political analysis, and first-person accounts, former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd, and investigative journalist Lori Culbert, offer a portrait of one of North America’s poorest, most drug-challenged neighbourhoods: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.A Thousand Dreams raises provocative questions about the ... Leer más

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  • The Economic Dependency Trap

    Breaking Free to Self-Reliance

    de Calvin Helin ...
    2012 gold medal winner in the self-help category of the prestigious Ippy AwardsThis book offers effective strategies to help erase poverty. It advocates self-reliance, policy reform, and cultural awareness. Accountability is required from all: the middle class, the trust fund babies, and the underprivileged who see themselves as perpetual victims and have fallen into the entitlement trap. True ... Leer más

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  • Punishing the Poor

    The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

    de Loïc Wacquant, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive “workfare” and expansive “prisonfare” under a philosophy of moral ... Leer más

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  • Summary and Analysis of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

    Based on the Book by Nancy Isenberg

    de Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of White Trash tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Nancy Isenberg's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of White Trash includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles of the ... Leer más

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  • Poverty and Peace in the Portuguese Speaking African Countries

    Edición de Cristina Rodrigues Udelsmann, Ana Bénard Da Costa ...
    Series series ebook'IS
    As the end result of a multidisciplinary investigation project conducted in Africa (PTDC/AFR/64207/2006, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), this publication about Poverty and Peace in the Portuguese-speaking African Countries has the purpose, on one hand, of presenting the main conclusions of the studies conducted in these countries and, on the other, to provide a collection of guidelines ... Leer más

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  • Understanding Housing Finance

    Meeting Needs and Making Choices

    de Peter King, Peter King ...
    One of the biggest challenges for students of housing is understanding the financial principles which underpin the place of housing in the wider economy. By taking a political economy approach, Peter King's Understanding Housing Finance makes the basic principles of the subject accessible, without requiring detailed prior knowledge of economics or financial systems.The book explains housing ... Leer más

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  • The Political Economy of Microfinance

    Financializing Poverty

    de Philip Mader ...
    Series series Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
    According to the author, rather than alleviating poverty, microfinance financialises poverty. By indebting poor people in the Global South, it drives financial expansion and opens new lands of opportunity for the crisis-ridden global capital markets. This book raises fundamental concerns about this widely-celebrated tool for social development. ... Leer más

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  • New Rules for Global Justice

    Structural Redistribution in the Global Economy

    Edición de Lorenzo Fioramonti, Alfred G. Nhema, Jan Aart Scholte ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Broke

    How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class

    Edición de Katherine Porter ...
    Series series Studies in Social Inequality
    About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse—with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth, and falling house values destabilizing the American middle class. Broke explores the consequences of this unprecedented growth in consumer debt and ... Leer más

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