|    Login    |    Register

Filter Results

  • Large print only
  • Audiobooks only

Showing 25-48 of 122

StartPrev123456NextEnd


(Paperback)

By: David Cheal

ISBN: 9780275965846
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This work describes the fall of individuals and countries who used to be affluent and dreamed their affluence would go on for ever. It turns the experience of this poverty into sociological theory and social statistics to provoke reflection about families today and the risks of being poor.


(Hardback)

By: David Cheal

ISBN: 9780313294440
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This work describes the fall of individuals and countries who used to be affluent and dreamed their affluence would go on for ever. It turns the experience of this poverty into sociological theory and social statistics to provoke reflection about families today and the risks of being poor.


(Hardback)

By: David Wagner

ISBN: 9781538110072
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear aboutthose who have formerly been on the streetssharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness.


(Paperback)

By: Caroline O.N. Moser

ISBN: 9780815703273
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

Fifty years after Oscar Lewis's famous depiction of five Mexican families caught in a ""culture of poverty,"" Caroline Moser tells a very different story of five neighborhood women and their families strategically accumulating assets to escape poverty in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil.


(Paperback)

By: Michelle Miller-Adams

ISBN: 9780815706199
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

Despite the recent success of welfare reform in moving people off public assistance and into jobs, most of America's working poor are still unable to accumulate even the most minimal of assets.


(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1979
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This survey of the current state of progress in legal aid systems in fifteen areas of the world cites the constitutional and philosophical goals of each nation regarding the poor and legal aid and it explores the ways in which the actual situation differs from the ideal.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Joe Hermer

ISBN: 9781841132693
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This book examines how begging regulation plays a central role in organising how we feel responsible for one another in late capitalist society.


(Hardback)

By: Melvin F. Hall

ISBN: 9780275947040
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

A national survey of social movement organizations is employed to develop a model of how the organizational features of the local group, competition among social movement organizations, the political settings of the organization, and organizational empowerment influence collective action style.


(Hardback)

By: David Wagner

ISBN: 9781440856440
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Paperback)

By: Andrew Martin Fischer

ISBN: 9781786990440
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

An incisive critique of how the field of international poverty studies, cultivated by global development agendas, has served to legitimate an increasingly punitive and conservative neoliberal world order.


(Hardback)

By: Andrew Martin Fischer

ISBN: 9781786990457
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

An incisive critique of how the field of international poverty studies, cultivated by global development agendas, has served to legitimate an increasingly punitive and conservative neoliberal world order.


(Hardback)

By: Christina G. Villegas

ISBN: 9781440877681
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Hardback)

By: Russell M. Lawson

ISBN: 9780313333989
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

Features A-Z entries and primary document excerpts that explore the turbulent history of poverty in America.


(Hardback)

By: John R. Burch Jr.

ISBN: 9781440858499
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Paperback)

By: Robert S. Pfeiffer

ISBN: 9781543951349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
See more...


(Paperback)

By: Alice O'Connor

ISBN: 9780691102559
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...

In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. This work gives an account of the thinking behind these very different views of "the poverty problem," in a century-spanning inquiry into the politics, institutions, ideologies, and social science that shaped poverty research and policy.


(Paperback)

By: Hari Bansha Dulal

ISBN: 9781498510936
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

Poverty Reduction in a Changing Climate, edited by Hari Bansha Dulal, is a work which discusses the new innovations and funding mechanisms which have emerged in response to the rise of climate-related challenges in the twenty-first century. Dulal and the text's contributors explore the synergies and implications of those innovations with respect to poverty alleviation goals.


(Paperback)

By: Samuel Bowles

ISBN: 9780691170930
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...


(Hardback)

By: Rebecca J. Emigh

ISBN: 9780275968816
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This volume offers an examination of the nature of poverty and its relationship to gender and ethnicity in five post-communist societies. The contributors contend that a "new poverty" is in the making and that the growing underclass is strongly related to ethnicity.


(Paperback)

By: Santiago Levy

ISBN: 9780815752219
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

In 1997, Mexico launched a new incentive-based poverty reduction program to enhance the human capital of those living in extreme poverty. This book presents a case study of Progresa-Oportunidades, focusing on the main factors that have contributed to the program's sustainability, policies that have allowed it to operate at the national level, and future challenges.


(Paperback)

By: Caroline O.N. Moser

ISBN: 9780815758570
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

A daunting challenge to the international community is how to go about lifting the world's huge poor population out of poverty. ""Asset-based"" approaches to development are aimed specifically at designing and implementing public policies that will increase the capital assets of the poor i.


(Hardback)

By: Cynthia M. Duncan

ISBN: 9780865690134
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

The clear, authoritative chapters describe the declining opportunities available in rural areas--including the social, educational, and political factors that so often pose barriers to economic advancement.

Part One provides a comprehensive description of the poor population and an analysis of rural poverty's underlying dynamics.


(Hardback)

By: David Fanshel

ISBN: 9780275940751
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This volume, based on the authors' close and extensive collaboration with New York's Lower East Family Union, affords a substantive, insightful, and effective approach not only to defining the services needed but also to the delivery thereof.


(Paperback)

By: Nora Claudia Lustig

ISBN: 9780815753216
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

The poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks. They have little or no access to public social insurance, are unlikely to save in adequate amounts to rely fully on self-insurance or informal insurance, face restricted access to private market insurance or credit mechanisms, and have little or no political voice to demand the protection of safety net programs.

StartPrev123456NextEnd