Housing and homelessness Books
Countryside Books Homes Fit For Heroes: The Aftermath of the First
Book SynopsisAfter the trauma of the war, those returning home required jobs, and with them clean and modern homes for their families. The slums and tenements of the pre-war years were not going to enable a healthy workforce that was fit to tackle the challenges of the new post-war world. At all cost Britain had to avoid the riot and revolution that had swept Europe in the later stages of the war. This book describes the re-building of the country during the decades after 1918. Bold advances were made in social provision, especially in housing, with ambitious schemes by local authorities, no longer solely through private builders. These early developments were not always able to keep ahead of the economic realities of the time, and many faltered. But through such pioneering improvements, housing was fixed firmly at the centre of British politics. It remains so today.
£11.26
Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press Living on the Streets in Japan: Homeless Women
Book SynopsisHomelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant model of a "homeless person" has been that of an unemployed male labourer - a model that has largely excluded women, who experience homelessness in different forms. This study gives the homeless women of Japan a voice at last.Based on extensive fieldwork, the author paints a vivid picture of the unique experiences of homeless women living in a diverse range of environments. By introducing a gender perspective to the analytic framework and challenging the conception of the homeless individual as a rational, autonomous subject, the author invites a critical reconsideration of homeless studies and of public policy.Table of Contents Figures Tables Photos Foreword to the English-Language Edition Foreword to the Original Edition 1 Toward an ethnography of homeless women 2 Who are the homeless women? 3 Establishing welfare for homeless women 4 Gender norms and the use of welfare facilities 5 The world of women who sleep rough 6 Continuing and ending rough sleeping 7 The process of change 8 Resisting the spell of the autonomous subject Epilogue Afterword Notes References Name Index Subject Index
£69.00
McSweeney's Dispatches 2
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£13.30
SSP Publications A Wholesome Horror (2nd Edition): Poor Houses in
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£18.95
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Sensibel Fur Armut: Kirchengemeinden in Der
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£19.10
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Housing the Poor: The Right to the City and
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£103.55
Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Leben in Hartz IV - Armut Und Menschenwurde
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£19.57
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Arme Und Armut in Gottingen 1860-1914
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£70.40
Universitatsverlag Winter Arm Und Reich: Sammelband Der Vortrage Des
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£13.85
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Poverty Revisited: The Capability Approach
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£51.00
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Integrating Poverty and Gender Into Health
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£14.09
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Integrating Poverty and Gender Into Health
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£14.25
