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Book SynopsisWINNER: 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 investigative look at data-based discrimination?and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equityThe State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three yearsbecause a new computer system interprets any mistake as failure to cooperate. In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model t

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Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedMillions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a jobany jobcan be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly unskilled, that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and musc

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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

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Book SynopsisThe Ethics of Homelessness is a compilation of essays analysing the philosophical, legal and social implications of the seemingly intractable condition that people endure without a home, where their fundamental human rights, autonomy and privacy are compromised. Authors use literature and arguments to demonstrate the failings of public policy.Table of ContentsForeword by Anthony J. Steinbock. Acknowledgments. Introduction by G. John M. Abbarno. Part One VERSE AND CONVERSATIONS: HOMELESS PEOPLE. ONE Noah S. BERGER: The Guardian of the Birds. TWO Dennis ROHATYN: Poetic Sounds of Homeless Verse. THREE Robert GINSBERG: Meditations on Homelessness and Being at Home: In the Form of a Dialogue. Part Two THE MIRROR OF HOMELESSNESS: IS IT ESSENTIAL TO HUMANITY? FOUR Pio COLONNELLO: Homelessness as Heimatlosigkeit? FIVE Patricia Anne MURPHY: The Rights of the Homeless: An Examination of the Phenomenology of Place. SIX David E. SCHRADER: Home Is Where the Heart Is: Homelessness and the Denial of Moral Personality. SEVEN Keith BURKUM: Homelessness, Virtue Theory, and the Creation of Community. Part Three: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL HOMELESSNESS IN CHILDREN. EIGHT Michael PARKER: Community, Ethics, and Homelessness. NINE René A.C. HOKSBERGEN: Psychic Homelessness. Photographs by Janice AGATI-ABBARNO. Part Four: NO HOME, NO CITIZENSHIP: MORAL AND POLITICAL DIMENSIONS. TEN Anita M. SUPERSON: The Homeless and the Right to Public Dwelling. ELEVEN Uma NARAYAN: No Shelter Even in the Constitution? Free Speech, Equal Protection, and the Homeless. TWELVE Natalie DANDEKAR: Social Policies, Principles, and Homelessness. THIRTEEN G. John M. ABBARNO: Failed Rights: The Moral Plight of the Mentally Ill Homeless. FOURTEEN Shyli KARIN-FRANK: Homelessness, the Right to Privacy, and the Obligation to Provide a Home. Part Five: TO HAVE A HOME: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE TO BE HOME? FIFTEEN Joseph BETZ: The Homeless Hannah Arendt. SIXTEEN Ron SCAPP: Talking About Those Home Improvement Blues. About the Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn The Political Economy of Housing: The Case of Turkey, Sila Demirors explores the analytical and historical process of how housing, a special use-value and social relation, which is crucial for the social reproduction of labour-power, becomes an instrument of speculative finance to feed itself. While the second part of the book discusses the political economy of housing in Turkey, in which housing has been used by the state as both a political project and a macroeconomic tool for the last two decades, the first part of the book formulates a methodological and theoretical framework to provide a comprehensive approach for comparative housing research from a Marxist political economy perspective.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Acronyms and Abbreviations 1 General Introduction and Methodology  1 What Is This Book About?  2 Background  3 Analytical Framework and Methodology  4 An Intermediate (Operational) Methodology: from ‘Structures of Housing Provision’ to ‘Systems of Provision’  4.1 Structures of Housing Provision Approach  4.2 Systems of Provision Approach  5 Data Collection  6 The Structure of the Book 2 Ground Rent and Housing  1 Marx’s Theory of Agricultural Rent  1.1 Differential Rent  1.2 Absolute Rent  1.3 Monopoly Rent  2 Ground Rent in Urban Land  3 Ground Rent in Urban Residential Land  4 Scarcity, Monopoly Rent and Housing  5 Ground Rent and Housing Sub-markets  6 Housing, Ground Rent and Capital Accumulation  6.1 Localised Monopoly Rent (Development Gains) vs. General Monopoly Rent  7 Conclusion 3 A Theoretical Investigation for Financialisation with a Focus on Financialisation of Housing Provision  1 Financialisation: an Explanandum or Explanans?  1.1 Analytical: Understanding Financialisation through Marx’s Theory of Money and Finance  1.2 Historical: Thinking Financialisation within and through Neoliberalism  1.3 Uneven and Combined Development of Financialisation  2 Intensive and Extensive Expansion of Finance  2.1 Financialisation of Social Reproduction  3 Financialisation of Housing  3.1 Housing Development Finance  3.2 House Purchase Finance  3.3 Social Housing  4 Conclusion 4 Neoliberal Transformation and Financialisation in Turkey through an Authoritarian Form of State  1 Capitalist State as the Condensation of Class Relationship  2 The Transition to Neoliberalism and Financialisation in Turkey: from 1980 to 2001  3 The Consolidation and Institutionalisation of Neoliberalism and Financialisation in Turkey: Post-2001 Period  4 Conclusion 5 Housing Provision in Turkey — a Historical Overview  1 1950–1980: Housing SoP under isi  2 1980–2001: Housing SoP in the Early Phase of Neoliberalism  3 Conclusion 6 State in Housing Provision  1 toki as a Particular Articulation of Political and Economic Intervention  2 Land  3 Planning  4 Housing Provision: Is toki a Robin Hood or an Unrivalled Monopoly?  5 Emlak Konut reit  6 Finance of toki  7 Urban Transformation: from Slum Upgrading to Mass Regeneration  8 Conclusion 7 Consumption of Housing  1 Housing Purchase Finance and Mortgage Boom?  2 Two Sides of the Same Coin: Financial Inclusion and Exclusion  3 Alternative Searches for Further Financial Inclusion: a Shadow Banking-System in Turkey  4 Effective Demand in Housing  5 Residential Land and House Price Inflation  6 Housing as a Speculative Investment Tool: Consumption of Housing for the Appropriation of Monopoly Rents  7 Housing Inequality: Wealth Effect and Crisis of Social Reproduction  8 Conclusion 8 Production of Housing  1 A Bird’s Eye Shot to the Housing Supply-Side Dynamics in the Post-2002 Era  2 Housing Developers and Housing Production Process  3 Housing Development Finance  4 The Volume of Housing Production and Housing Stock  5 Construction Move: a Political Project and a Macroeconomic Tool  6 Conclusion 9 Conclusion Appendix 1 Interview Schedule and Codes Appendix 2 Distribution of Non-institutional Population by Equivalised Household Disposable Median Income Groups and Housing Living Conditions Indicators (2006–2018) Appendix 3 Divergence between Construction Costs and House Prices in Turkey (June 2016–September 2018) Bibliography Index

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