Poverty and precarity Books

Book SynopsisOffers a rare and vivid insight into the everyday lives, attitudes and behaviours of the rich as well as the poor across the UK, demonstrating how those marginalised and validated by the existing welfare system make sense of the prevailing socio-political settlement and their own position within it.Trade Review"Scary but crucial reading. Edmiston's analysis of lived narratives shows how policy framing the poor as `bad' and the rich as `good' shape public attitudes towards poverty and inequality." Louise Humpage, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Auckland "A must read for anyone interested in inequality and social citizenship, this book provides a careful - but damning - assessment of current policies and politics." Tracy Shildrick, University of Newcastle "Through rigorous empirical fieldwork and informed theorising this excellent book explores how lived experiences of inequality generate particular forms of knowledge, understanding and action among affluent and disadvantaged citizens." Peter Dwyer, University of YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction Unequal citizenship? The new social divisions of public welfare Lived experiences of poverty and prosperity in austerity Britain The sociological imagination of rich and poor citizens Heterodox citizens? Conceptions of social rights and responsibilities Identity, difference and citizenship: a fraying tapestry? Deliberating the structural determinants of poverty and inequality Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBased on more than 30 case studies in eight different countries, this book explores the governance dynamics of local social innovations in the field of poverty reduction, illustrating how different governance dynamics and welfare mixes enable or hinder poverty reduction strategies.Trade Review“This book is a milestone in the experimental world of social innovation, the micro-governance of social innovation and the debate on practices of future democracy.” Frank Moulaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven“In today’s welfare states, poverty remains a largely intractable problem for policy makers and a persistent reality for many citizens. This book critically assesses the potential of social innovation. The book successfully paves the way for different policy paradigms – social protection, social investment and social innovation – to speak to each other. Against the background of the major challenges we face, this is an important, and even necessary, task.” Bea Cantillon, Universiteit Antwerpen"This interdisciplinary volume sheds important new light on the governance challenges facing social innovations in Europe and Brazil. Participatory bottom-up politics empowers excluded citizens, satisfies needs, and improves public programs.” Hilary Silver, Georgetown University and Brown University“Theoretically strong with interesting case studies based on excellent European research.” Enzo Mingione, Università di Milano-BicoccaTable of ContentsGoverning Local Social Innovations against Poverty across Europe ~ Stijn Oosterlynck, Yuri Kazepov and Andreas Novy The Historical Trajectory of Social Innovation in the European Union ~ Gert Verschraegen, Stijn Oosterlynck, Sebastiano Sabato and Andreas Novy On Elephants, Butterflies and Lions: Social Protection, Innovation and Investment ~ Yuri Kazepov, Tatiana Saruis, Fabio Colombo Modalities of Governing the Welfare Mix ~ Stijn Oosterlynck and Pieter Cools The Multi-scalar Puzzle of Social Innovation ~ Yuri Kazepov, Fabio Colombo, Tatiana Saruis Contradictory Dynamics of Empowerment in Social Innovation Initiatives ~ Stijn Oosterlynck, Andreas Novy, Bernhard Leubolt and Carla Weinzierl Negotiating Diversity and Equality ~ Andreas Novy and Carla Weinzierl Knowledge for Social Innovation ~ Andreas Novy, Pieter Cools, Gert Verschraegen and Carla Weinzierl Consolidating Social Innovation ~ Yuri Kazepov, Tatiana Saruis and Fabio Colombo Conclusion: Local Social Innovation and Welfare Reform ~ Stijn Oosterlynck, Andreas Novy and Yuri Kazepov

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Book SynopsisThis book calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing austerity, under-resourced organisations and a lack of social solidarity. Based on a research programme by the Webb Memorial Trust, a key theme is power which shows that the way forward is to increase people’s sense of agency in building the society that they want.Trade Review"accessible and comprehensive" - Citizen's Basic Income Trust“This timely contribution offers new thinking into how we tackle poverty as part of a national mission to build a better society.” Dan Jarvis, MP"Barry Knight offers us a challenging initial plan of how we might raise our eyes and come together to build a good society without poverty. The more people from diverse sectors who respond, the more progress we're likely to make." Professor the Baroness (Ruth) Lister of Burtersett"Highlights the urgent need for a new approach to dismantling poverty, one that empowers those in poverty to climb out and live a fulfilling life – I urge you to read it!" Lord Bird MBETable of ContentsForeword by Richard Rawes Introduction The narrative on poverty has failed The society we have The society we want How do we achieve a good society without poverty? Who does what to produce a good society? Towards transformation

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates different policy and civic responses to extreme poverty, ranging from food donations to penalisation and social cleansing of highly visible poor and how it is related to concerns of ethics, justice and human dignity.Trade Review“A landmark text. It will be vital reading for anyone seeking an understanding of the circumstances, extent and impacts of absolute poverty in contemporary Europe, and the urgency of tackling it.” Gideon Calder, Swansea UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Helmut P. Gaisbauer, Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak; Section I: Conceptual and methodological challenges; Reconceptualising Poverty in Europe: Exclusion, marginality and absolute poverty reframed through participatory relational space ~ Lena Dominelli; Measures of extreme poverty applied in the European Union ~ Jonathan Bradshaw and Oleksandr Movshuk; The uncounted poor in EU-SILC: A statistical profile of the income and living conditions of homeless people, undocumented immigrants and travelers in Belgium ~ Ides Nicaise, Ingrid Schockaert and Tuba Bircan; Measuring Absolute Poverty: Shame is all you need ~ Robert Walker; Section II: Key issues for the absolute poor; Health care for the absolute poor ~ Ursula Trummer; Housing deprivation ~ Patricia Kennedy and Nessa Winston; Food poverty and the families the state has turned its back on: the case of the UK ~ Rebecca O'Connell and Julia Brannen; Back to the origins: Early interpersonal trauma and the intergenerational transmission of violence within the context of urban poverty ~ Carlos Pitillas; Unravelling the complexities of poverty in Northern Ireland, a New Immigration Destination ~ Ruth McAreavey; High accompaniment needs: absolute poverty and vulnerable migrants ~ Clemens Sedmak; Section III: Policy responses to absolute poverty in Europe; Absolute poverty and social protection in the EU: A cross-country comparison ~ Stefanos Papanastasiou; Faith based organizations as actors in the charity economy: A case study of food assistance in Finland ~ Tiina Silvasti and Anna Sofia Salonen; Absolute poverty and the EU Social Policy Agenda ~ Helmut P. Gaisbauer; Penalising homelessness in Europe ~ Guillem Fernàndez Evangelista; Protection from poverty in the European Court of Human Rights ~ Elena Pribytkova; Section IV: Ethical perspectives on absolute poverty in Europe; Dignity, self-respect and real poverty in Europe ~ Christian Neuhäuser; Justice and Absolute Poverty ~ Gottfried Schweiger; Conclusion: Responding to the dark reality of absolute poverty in European welfare states ~ Helmut P. Gaisbauer, Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates different policy and civic responses to extreme poverty, ranging from food donations to penalisation and social cleansing of highly visible poor and how it is related to concerns of ethics, justice and human dignity.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Helmut P. Gaisbauer, Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak; Section I: Conceptual and methodological challenges; Reconceptualising Poverty in Europe: Exclusion, marginality and absolute poverty reframed through participatory relational space ~ Lena Dominelli; Measures of extreme poverty applied in the European Union ~ Jonathan Bradshaw and Oleksandr Movshuk; The uncounted poor in EU-SILC: A statistical profile of the income and living conditions of homeless people, undocumented immigrants and travelers in Belgium ~ Ides Nicaise, Ingrid Schockaert and Tuba Bircan; Measuring Absolute Poverty: Shame is all you need ~ Robert Walker; Section II: Key issues for the absolute poor; Health care for the absolute poor ~ Ursula Trummer; Housing deprivation ~ Patricia Kennedy and Nessa Winston; Food poverty and the families the state has turned its back on: The case of the UK ~ Rebecca O´Connell and Julia Brannen; Back to the origins: Early interpersonal trauma and the intergenerational transmission of violence within the context of urban poverty ~ Carlos Pitillas; Unravelling the complexities of poverty in Northern Ireland, a New Immigration Destination ~ Ruth McAreavey; High accompaniment needs: Absolute poverty and vulnerable migrants ~ Clemens Sedmak; Section III: Policy responses to absolute poverty in Europe; Absolute poverty and social protection in the EU: A cross-country comparison ~ Stefanos Papanastasiou; Faith based organizations as actors in the charity economy: A case study of food assistance in Finland ~ Tiina Silvasti and Anna Sofia Salonen; Absolute poverty and the EU Social Policy Agenda ~ Helmut P. Gaisbauer; Penalising homelessness in Europe ~ Guillem Fernàndez Evangelista; Protection from poverty in the European Court of Human Rights ~ Elena Pribytkova; Section IV: Ethical perspectives on absolute poverty in Europe; Dignity, self-respect and real poverty in Europe ~ Christian Neuhäuser; Justice and Absolute Poverty ~ Gottfried Schweiger; Conclusion: Responding to the dark reality of absolute poverty in European welfare states ~ Helmut P. Gaisbauer, Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak.

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Book SynopsisUsing vivid testimonies and images, Briggs and Monge document the stories and situations of the people who live in Valdemingómez , placing them in a political, economic and social context.Trade Review"Wow! This book is an ethnographic tour de force documenting the European social democratic dream's collision with the nightmare reality of the neoliberal `global chase for profit’." - Professor Philippe Bourgois, author of Righteous Dopefiend and In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio"A chilling ethnography that takes readers on a heart-breaking journey of marginalised and socially excluded drug users in Spain. Dead End Lives highlights a forgotten community, whilst remembering the harsh realities of individuals lives with humanity and grace. I would recommend this book to all of those with an interest and passion in challenging inequality and injustice around the globe." Grace Robinson, Edge Hill University"A detailed, enthralling and discomforting ethnographic investigation of the growing poverty and desperation found at the edges of Europe's glittering metropolises... what Briggs reveals will make you sad and angry, but the gritty reality of our most marginalised neighbourhoods must be researched in this way if the social sciences are to move forward" - Professor Simon Winlow, Teesside University, UK"a riveting and at times chilling reading...a must-read for scholars and students of anthropology, criminology and sociology as well as activists and policy makers." - Dr Tereza Kuldova, University of Oslo, Norway"This is what criminology should be about!" - Dr Leah Moyle, Griffith Criminology Institute, Australia"combines fantastic ethnography with new theoretical political economy, precisely the mixture we need to make sense of our nightmarish contemporary world…Riveting!" - Steve Redhead, Professor of Cultural Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia"Ethnographic work at its best, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in drugs, crime and harm." - Dr Alexandra Hall, Teesside University, UK"a thoroughly researched and exceptionally well written ethnography" - Professor Jeffrey Ian Ross, University of Baltimore, US"This is an exceptional study and a fascinating read… ethnography at its best" - Dr Steve Wakeman, Liverpool John Moores University, UK"Briggs trains his powerful searchlight on the devastating social consequences of unemployment, insecurity and pervasive drug markets" - Professor Steve Hall, Teesside University, UK"This is just the type of research and critique Spain so desperately needs." - Dr Jorge Ramiro Pérez Suárez, University of Huddersfield and the European University of Madrid, Spain"An unflinching, yet ultimately compassionate rendering of human vulnerability" - Professor Rowland Atkinson, Sheffield University, UK"hard-hitting ethnography of the chaotic lives of socially-excluded cocaine and heroin consumers, and the limitations of drug policy" - Dr James Windle, University of East London, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Welcome to Valdemingómez; Politics, ‘democracy’ and the ideology of the postmodern city; Madrid: History, social processes and the growth in inequality; Drugs, cultural change and drug markets; Journeys to dependence; Life in the city shadows: Work, identity and social status; The council, police and health services: An impasse to solutions; Post dependency: What next?; Not really the conclusion; Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisUsing vivid testimonies and images, Briggs and Monge document the stories and situations of the people who live in Valdemingómez , placing them in a political, economic and social context.Trade Review"Wow! This book is an ethnographic tour de force documenting the European social democratic dream's collision with the nightmare reality of the neoliberal `global chase for profit’." - Professor Philippe Bourgois, author of Righteous Dopefiend and In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio"A chilling ethnography that takes readers on a heart-breaking journey of marginalised and socially excluded drug users in Spain. Dead End Lives highlights a forgotten community, whilst remembering the harsh realities of individuals lives with humanity and grace. I would recommend this book to all of those with an interest and passion in challenging inequality and injustice around the globe." Grace Robinson, Edge Hill University"A detailed, enthralling and discomforting ethnographic investigation of the growing poverty and desperation found at the edges of Europe's glittering metropolises... what Briggs reveals will make you sad and angry, but the gritty reality of our most marginalised neighbourhoods must be researched in this way if the social sciences are to move forward" - Professor Simon Winlow, Teesside University, UK"a riveting and at times chilling reading...a must-read for scholars and students of anthropology, criminology and sociology as well as activists and policy makers." - Dr Tereza Kuldova, University of Oslo, Norway"This is what criminology should be about!" - Dr Leah Moyle, Griffith Criminology Institute, Australia"combines fantastic ethnography with new theoretical political economy, precisely the mixture we need to make sense of our nightmarish contemporary world…Riveting!" - Steve Redhead, Professor of Cultural Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia"Ethnographic work at its best, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in drugs, crime and harm." - Dr Alexandra Hall, Teesside University, UK"a thoroughly researched and exceptionally well written ethnography" - Professor Jeffrey Ian Ross, University of Baltimore, US"This is an exceptional study and a fascinating read… ethnography at its best" - Dr Steve Wakeman, Liverpool John Moores University, UK"Briggs trains his powerful searchlight on the devastating social consequences of unemployment, insecurity and pervasive drug markets" - Professor Steve Hall, Teesside University, UK"This is just the type of research and critique Spain so desperately needs." - Dr Jorge Ramiro Pérez Suárez, University of Huddersfield and the European University of Madrid, Spain"An unflinching, yet ultimately compassionate rendering of human vulnerability" - Professor Rowland Atkinson, Sheffield University, UK"hard-hitting ethnography of the chaotic lives of socially-excluded cocaine and heroin consumers, and the limitations of drug policy" - Dr James Windle, University of East London, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Welcome to Valdemingómez; Politics, `democracy’ and the ideology of the postmodern city; Madrid: History, social processes and the growth in inequality; Drugs, cultural change and drug markets; Journeys to dependence; Life in the city shadows: Work, identity and social status; The council, police and health services: An impasse to solutions; Post dependency: What next?; Not really the conclusion; Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection considers how conditional welfare policies and services are implemented and experienced by a diverse range of welfare service users across a range of UK policy domains including social security, homelessness, migration and criminal justice.Trade Review“This compelling and often affecting account of the attempts of various arms of the welfare state to enforce `good’ behaviour by service users will interest readers across the social sciences.” Mark Simpson, Ulster UniversityTable of ContentsEditor's introduction ~ Peter Dwyer Supporting people? Universal Credit, conditionality and the recalibration of vulnerability ~ Helen Stinson Punishment, powerlessness and bounded agency: exploring the role of welfare conditionality with `at risk’ women attempting to live `a good life’ ~ Larissa Povey Resisting welfare conditionality: constraint, choice and dissent among homeless migrants ~ Regina Serpa No strings attached? An exploration of employment support services offered by third sector homelessness organisations ~ Katy Jones Exploring the impact of welfare conditionality on Roma migrants in the UK ~ Liviu Dinu and Lisa Scullion Exploring the behavioural outcomes of family-based intensive interventions ~ Emily Ball Editor’s afterword ~ Peter Dwyer

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Book SynopsisThis book examines poverty in the context of the economy, society and the political community, considering how states can respond to issues of inequality, exclusion and powerlessness. Drawing on examples in both rich and poor countries, this is an accessible contribution to the debate about the nature of poverty and responses to it.Trade Review"This thoughtful exploration of the contemporary landscape of poverty studies is especially valuable for those of us focused on human rights and social justice from the perspective of the Global South." * Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, Stanford University *"The author provides fresh insights into a longstanding topic at the heart of development theory and practice. His multi-level and multi-disciplinary analysis which looks at poor and rich countries in tandem is an important contribution to current development debates in the era of the SDGs." * Katja Hujo, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Representations of poverty Part I ~ Poverty: economic and social relationships Poverty Poverty and the economy Economic development Inequality Exclusion Poverty and rights Poverty and social policy Part II ~ Rich and poor countries Poverty in national perspective Poverty and the state Poverty in rich countries Poor countries Rich and poor countries Responses to poverty Conclusion: Poverty and social science

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Book SynopsisThis book examines poverty in the context of the economy, society and the political community, considering how states can respond to issues of inequality, exclusion and powerlessness. Drawing on examples in both rich and poor countries, this is an accessible contribution to the debate about the nature of poverty and responses to it.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Representations of poverty Part I ~ Poverty: economic and social relationships Poverty Poverty and the economy Economic development Inequality Exclusion Poverty and rights Poverty and social policy Part II ~ Rich and poor countries Poverty in national perspective Poverty and the state Poverty in rich countries Poor countries Rich and poor countries Responses to poverty Conclusion: Poverty and social science

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Book SynopsisThis book uses qualitative longitudinal data, from repeat interviews with people subject to compulsion and sanction in their everyday lives, to analyse the effectiveness and ethicality of welfare conditionality in promoting and sustaining behaviour change in the UK.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Conditionality in the UK Welfare State 3. Welfare Conditionality and Behaviour Change 4. From Welfare to Work? The Effectiveness of Welfare Conditionality in Moving People into Paid Employment 5. Welfare Conditionality and Problematic or Antisocial Behaviour 6. Unintended Outcomes? The Wider Impacts of Compulsion and Benefit Sanctions in Social Security 7. Ethical Debates 8. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisProviding an in-depth exploration of the experiences of Ireland, Denmark and Finland in their various initiatives designed to end homelessness, this book presents an authoritative comparative account of policies and strategies that have worked, along with an exposition of those that have not.Trade Review"The lessons unearthed in this book will be pivotal if ending homelessness is to progress from an admirable objective to a realisable goal." Joe Doherty, University of St Andrews.“An extremely important contribution to our understanding of homelessness. It offers the reader critical insights, as well as concrete suggestions on the policy settings required to end homelessness.” Guy Johnson, RMIT UniversityTable of ContentsEnding homelessness? Policy and progress in Denmark, Finland and Ireland Before the Goal of ‘ending homelessness’: the Evolution of Policy; The Strategies Described; Trends in Homelessness in Denmark, Finland and Ireland; Explanations – Housing Matters; Explanations – Welfare Matters; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of qualitative longitudinal evidence, this book casts light on women’s lived experiences of welfare and work. It uncovers the hidden gendered bias of conditional welfare reforms to challenge dominant political discourses, policy design and practice norms.Table of Contents1. What Does Work-based Welfare Reform Mean for Women? 2. Re-Theorising Conditional Welfare As Gendered Lived Experience and Street-Level Practice 3. Policy Context: The Hidden Gendered Impacts of Conditional Welfare Reforms 4. Re-Writing Retirement As ‘Work Experience’: Older Women’s Gendered Encounters With the Work Ethic 5. Crushing Conditionality: Women Living Through Heavily Enforced Work-Related Conditionality 6. In the Shadow of Sanctions: Disciplining Women and Children for Violating Male-Defined Work Norms 7. Conclusions Appendix 1: The Welfare Conditionality Study Appendix 2: Sanctions Overviews

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on evidence on two cohorts of children, from 1 to 15 and from 8 to 22 growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past 15 years. It examines how poverty affects children's development in these countries, and how policy has been used to improve their lives.Trade Review"This book presents rich comparative and longitudinal evidence about young lives in the global south. I would recommend to researchers in international childhood and youth studies, international development and education, and to policy-makers and practitioners in government and non-government settings." Vicky Johnson, Goldsmiths, University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction; Tracing the consequences of poverty for children, setting out the problem; The findings: what happens when?; What matters most and when; Implications for policy and intervention Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a two-year multi-platform initiative, this book by award-winning journalist and author Mary O'Hara, asks how we can overturn the portrayal of poverty once and for all. Crucially, she turns to the real experts to try to find answers the people who live it.Trade Review"A necessary book in divisive times." Jameela Jamil, actress and activist"Following up on Austerity Bites, Mary O’Hara shows us why poverty sucks. Not just for the obvious reasons of struggle and deprivation, but because poverty is produced by a specific style of politics that revels in the shame of others, a politics where the US and the UK are past masters." Mark Blyth, Brown University and author of Austerity: The history of a dangerous idea"The Shame Game is the book we need right now. Real stories, by people who have lived that story, smashing apart the divisive narratives around poverty that are so damaging to all of us." Kerry Hudson, Author, Lowborn"In a time of extreme social and economic division, Mary O'Hara lifts the lid on who truly benefits from keeping us divided and how we can flip the script of poverty to make a fairer society for all. A powerful and important book." Mahsuda Snaith, author of How to Find Home“Rich people should be required to read this book and poor people should be allowed to. I have rarely seen a more broad and beautiful picture of people who have done more with less than this book. O’Hara has woven a rich tapestry of joy and terror and talent and lost opportunities and the picture she draws is the most comprehensive description of poverty I’ve seen yet.” Linda Tirado, journalist and author of “Hand to mouth"I worked with Mary, and she sees the potential of talent and magic in every kid and every adult. This book explores the absolute travesty of blaming each other." Conrad Murray, BAC Beatbox AcademyTable of ContentsPART I : The inconvenient truth: poverty is real A short prologue Introduction 1 Who are these ‘poor’ people anyway? Being on the breadline in Britain 2 What? There are poor people in the richest nation on earth? PART II: Turning the screw on poor people: shame, stigma and cementing of a toxic poverty narrative 3 A twisted tale: evolution of a the poverty narrative 4 Lights, camera, vilification: the narrative in action 5 The games we play: weaponising the narrative 6 Shame on you: making the toxic narrative stick PART III: Flipping the script: challenging the narrative war on the poor 7 Feeling it: the truth about living in poverty 8 Changing times: fighting poverty, not the poor 9 New generation: young people writing their own script 10 Altered images: constructing a new narrative

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Book SynopsisAvailable open access under CC-BY-NC license. This book brings together the insights and experiences of a diverse group of government leaders, academics and third sector practitioners to set out new evidence-based strategies and solutions to end homelessness for good.Trade Review“This volume is a fascinating synthesis of the concerns and challenges facing those working to end homelessness, alongside the emerging transferable lessons and insights arising from the growing role of evidence evaluation and what works across many public policy domains." Ken Gibb, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence"Where resources are at a premium, impacts life altering and options disputed building knowledge about what works is essential. This book offers a serious way to achieve large scale sustainable progress for people experiencing homeless in the UK and beyond." Nancy Hey, What Works Wellbeing.Table of ContentsForeword ~ David Halpern 1 The Impact Manifesto: doing the right things to end homelessness for good ~ Lígia Teixeira 2 A new approach to ending homelessness ~ Jon Sparkes and Matt Downie 3 Reform in the private rented sector ~ Olly Grender 4 Houses, not homelessness ~ Danny Dorling 5 Loosening poverty’s grip ~ Campbell Robb 6 A cross-party approach to homelessness ~ Neil Coyle 7 Contrasting traditions in research between the UK and US ~ Dennis Culhane, Suzanne Fitzpatrick and Dan Treglia 8 Why evidence matters ~ Jonathan Breckon and Emma Taylor-Collins 9 A public health approach to homelessness ~ Louise Marshall and Jo Bibby 10 Data and evidence: what is possible in public policy? ~ Stephen Aldridge 11 Using evidence in social policy: from NICE to What Works ~ Howard White and David Gough 12 Charities and donors in evidence systems ~ Caroline Fiennes 13 Why transparency matters to knowledge mobilisation ~ Tracey Brown 14 Afterword ~ Julia Unwin Index

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Book SynopsisResearch into minimum income standards and reference budgets around the world is compared in this illuminating collection from leading academics in the field.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Professor the Baroness Ruth Lister of Burtersett Part 1: Introduction; An introduction to minimum income standards and reference budgets: International and comparative policy perspectives ~ Christopher Deeming; Part 2: Case Studies; From normative budget standards to consensual minimum income standards in the UK ~ Jonathan Bradshaw; Minimum essential standards of living research in Ireland ~ Bernadette Mac Mahon and Robert Thornton; The French experience of reference budgets ~ Pierre Concialdi; Minimum income research in Japan: its development and political implications ~ Aya K. Abe; Measuring needs and setting standards in Singapore ~ Kok-Hoe Ng, Yu-Wei Neo, Youyenn Teo, Ad Maulod and Yi-Ting Ting; A South African pilot of the minimum income standards approach ~ Gemma Wright, Matt Padley and Wanga Zembe-Mkabile; Reference budgets as tools for everyday life, evaluation and policymaking in Finland ~ Anna-Riitta Lehtinen and Kristiina Aalto; Belgian reference budgets for social participation and there use for policy purposes ~ Bérénice Storms; The development, value and application of budget standards: reflecting on the Australian experience ~ Peter Saunders; Estimating the cost of being a child in Catalonia through the reference budgets approach ~ Irene Cussó-Parcerisas, Elena Carrillo Álvarez and Jordi Riera Romaní; Measuring poverty in the Netherlands: the generalised reference budget approach ~ J. Cok Vrooman, Benedikt Goderis, Stella Hoff and Bart van Hulst; The Norwegian reference budget ~ Marthe Hårvik Austgulen and Elling Borgeraas Minimum budgets for Danish families ~ Jens Bonke and Anders Eiler Wiese Christensen The Swedish Consumer Agency’s calculations of reference values: for some of the most common household expense categories ~ Malin Lindquist Skogar and Ingrid Eriksson Part 3: Cross-national & Comparative Perspectives; Chapter 16. The Slovenian experience with three methods for defining the minimum income ~ Nada Stropnik; Applying the minimum income standard in diverse national contexts ~ Matt Padley and Abigail Davis; The steep and winding road to comparable reference budgets in Europe ~ Tim Goedemé; Adequate income in Portugal: a comparison of two estimation methods ~ José A. Pereirinha, Elvira Pereira, Francisco Branco, Dália Costa and Inês Amaro; Part 4: Policy & Practice; Basic needs budgets in policy and practice ~ Gordon M. Fisher; Establishing minimum income Standards in policy and practice ~ Donald Hirsch; Minimum income standards in the basic income debate ~ Malcolm Torry; Part 5: Conclusions; Minimum income standards and reference budgets, past, present, future? ~ Christopher Deeming.

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Book SynopsisKrumer-Nevo provides a new framework for people working with and for people in poverty: The Poverty-Aware Paradigm. This book details its extensive application across diverse poverty contexts in Israel, links it to diverse facets of social work practice and provides innovative ways of thinking about how social work can address poverty globally.Table of ContentsIntroduction Poverty-Aware Social Work: A Paradigmatic Proposal Part One: Transformation How to Speak Critically about Poverty How to Write a Critical Case-Study How to Teach Poverty Critically Frequently Asked Questions on Poverty and the Poverty-Aware Paradigm Part Two: Recognition Poverty, Recognition, Therapy On needs and Knowledge: Sarit's Story On Emotional Pain On Minor Movements of Resistance Part Three: Rights What’s Active in Active Exercising of Rights? Material Help and Flexible Budget Active Rights Exercising: Advanced In the Face of Injustice: A Panel Part Four: Solidarity When Doubbi Looked for a Home: Standing By Within the Establishment A Babysitter for a Dollar: Community Development Between Othering and Solidarity: Crisis Intervention with Children at Risk “I'm Not that Kind of Person”: Solidarity in Group Intervention

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Book SynopsisKrumer-Nevo provides a new framework for people working with and for people in poverty: The Poverty-Aware Paradigm. This book details its extensive application across diverse poverty contexts in Israel, links it to diverse facets of social work practice and provides innovative ways of thinking about how social work can address poverty globally.Table of ContentsIntroduction Poverty-Aware Social Work: A Paradigmatic Proposal Part One: Transformation How to Speak Critically about Poverty How to Write a Critical Case-Study How to Teach Poverty Critically Frequently Asked Questions on Poverty and the Poverty-Aware Paradigm Part Two: Recognition Poverty, Recognition, Therapy On needs and Knowledge: Sarit's Story On Emotional Pain On Minor Movements of Resistance Part Three: Rights What’s Active in Active Exercising of Rights? Material Help and Flexible Budget Active Rights Exercising: Advanced In the Face of Injustice: A Panel Part Four: Solidarity When Doubbi Looked for a Home: Standing By Within the Establishment A Babysitter for a Dollar: Community Development Between Othering and Solidarity: Crisis Intervention with Children at Risk “I'm Not that Kind of Person”: Solidarity in Group Intervention

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Book SynopsisOffers a rare and vivid insight into the everyday lives, attitudes and behaviours of the rich as well as the poor across the UK, demonstrating how those marginalised and validated by the existing welfare system make sense of the prevailing socio-political settlement and their own position within it.Trade Review"Scary but crucial reading. Edmiston’s analysis of lived narratives shows how policy framing the poor as `bad’ and the rich as `good’ shape public attitudes towards poverty and inequality." Louise Humpage, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Auckland"A must read for anyone interested in inequality and social citizenship, this book provides a careful - but damning - assessment of current policies and politics." Tracy Shildrick, University of Newcastle"Through rigorous empirical fieldwork and informed theorising this excellent book explores how lived experiences of inequality generate particular forms of knowledge, understanding and action among affluent and disadvantaged citizens." Peter Dwyer, University of YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction Unequal citizenship? The new social divisions of public welfare Lived experiences of poverty and prosperity in austerity Britain The sociological imagination of rich and poor citizens Heterodox citizens? Conceptions of social rights and responsibilities Identity, difference and citizenship: a fraying tapestry? Deliberating the structural determinants of poverty and inequality Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWelfare states are a major feature of many societies. This book draws on qualitative interviews with people receiving various working age welfare payments in Ireland to analyse welfare conditionality and explore stigma, social reciprocity and the notions of the deserving and undeserving poor.Table of ContentsForeword by Fred Powell Introduction 1. Setting the Stage: The Development of the Irish Welfare State and its Place in the World of Welfare 2. Welfare, Marginality and Social Liminality: Life in the Welfare ‘Space’ 3. The Effect of the Work Ethic 4. Welfare Conditionality 5. Maintaining Compliance and Engaging in Impression Management 6. Deservingness: Othering, Self-Justification and the Norm of Reciprocity 7. Welfare is 'Bad' Bringing It All Together 8. COVID-19: Policy Responses and Lived Experiences Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPaul Spicker offers an original take on the British welfare state. He outlines the structure of services, the impact of false narratives, the real problems that need to be addressed and how we can do things better.Table of Contents1. The welfare state 2. Social security 3. The National Health Service 4. Social care 5. Education 6. Child protection 7. Housing 8. Employment services 9. Equalities and human rights 10. The public services 11. Towards a stronger welfare state Afterword: a personal note

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Book SynopsisPaul Spicker offers an original take on the British welfare state. He outlines the structure of services, the impact of false narratives, the real problems that need to be addressed and how we can do things better.Table of Contents1. The welfare state 2. Social security 3. The National Health Service 4. Social care 5. Education 6. Child protection 7. Housing 8. Employment services 9. Equalities and human rights 10. The public services 11. Towards a stronger welfare state Afterword: a personal note

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the recent experiences of diverse paid care workers in four very different national contexts Finland, Canada, South Africa and England to learn from their experiences during COVID-19 and its aftermath.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the perspectives of women and children displaced from Ukraine, as well as local authority policy makers and service providers, this book provides a unique view of the direct and indirect consequences of war in Europe and identifies the best responses to these 'wicked issues'.

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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the most pronounced setback in the fight against global poverty since World War II.This report provides new data on the stark reversal of progress in the fight against global poverty. It explores how to optimize fiscal policy and identifies policies that can help correct course.

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Book SynopsisIn a rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their cities' labour markets and a threat to their development. Drawing on national household surveys and four secondary city case studies in Africa, this report finds that migrants can strengthen the urban labor force.

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Book SynopsisSocial deprivations coincide with vast deforestation in Brazil's Legal Amazon, or Amazonia. Poverty reduction and sustainable development require renewed efforts to protect the region's exceptional natural wealth, coupled with a shift from an extractive to a productivity-oriented growth model.

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Book SynopsisThe overlapping crises of COVID-19, climate change, and rising levels of conflict are exacerbating global inequalities. This book offers a definition and framework for social sustainability, as well as examples and concrete guidance on how development can foster progress towards it.

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Book SynopsisExamines how access to and choice on science, technology, engineering, and mathemetics (STEM) affect enrollments in upper secondary, technical, and vocational education and training (TVET), and higher education in Sri Lanka. The goal is to increase access to and participation in STEM programs and careers.

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Book SynopsisSri Lanka is at a crossroads. There is an urgent need to enhance skills in Sri Lanka to increase inclusion, support recovery, and build resilience. This report addresses these issues and provides recommendations for strengthening skills and improving education.

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Book SynopsisHow the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru’s ongoing, internationally endorsed 'war on poverty' shapes politics, intimate identities, and urban space in Lima. Drawing on a decade of embedded, ethnographic research in Lima’s largest and most recently founded “extreme poverty zone,” Kristin Skrabut demonstrates how Peru’s efforts to fight poverty by formalizing property, identity, and family status perpetuate environmentally unsustainable urban sprawl, deepen discrimination against single mothers, and undermine Peruvians’ faith in public officials and in one another. In the process, Skrabut reveals myriad entanglements of poverty, statecraft, and private life, exploring how families are made and unmade through political practices, how gender inequalities are perpetuated through policy, and how Peruvians’ everyday pursui

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Book SynopsisRhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Methodologies and Sources for a Conceptual History of Economic Difference over the Longue Durée 22 2. Excavating Early Ideas about Poverty and Wealth 45 Interchapter. Overview of Climate Developments 64 3. The Bereft and the Powerful: Greater Luhyia Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 72 4. Gender and Honor: North Nyanza Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 99 5. Orphans and Livestock: Nilotic Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 120 6. Wealth, Poverty, and the Colonial Economy: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 144 Conclusion 167 Appendix. Reconstructed Vocabulary 171 Notes 207 Bibliography 254 Index 277

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Book SynopsisRhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Methodologies and Sources for a Conceptual History of Economic Difference over the Longue Durée 22 2. Excavating Early Ideas about Poverty and Wealth 45 Interchapter. Overview of Climate Developments 64 3. The Bereft and the Powerful: Greater Luhyia Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 72 4. Gender and Honor: North Nyanza Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 99 5. Orphans and Livestock: Nilotic Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 120 6. Wealth, Poverty, and the Colonial Economy: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 144 Conclusion 167 Appendix. Reconstructed Vocabulary 171 Notes 207 Bibliography 254 Index 277

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Book SynopsisIn For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione questions accepted understandings of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of home. Conventionally, home is framed as a place of security and belonging, while its loss defines what it means to be homeless. On the basis of this binary, a whole industry of policy interventions, knowledge production, and organizing fails to provide solutions to homelessness but perpetuates violent and precarious forms of inhabitation. Drawing on his research and activism around housing in Europe, Lancione attends to the interlocking crises of home and homelessness by recentering the political charge of precarious dwelling. It is there, if often in unannounced ways, that a profound struggle for a differential kind of homing signals multiple possibilities to transcend the violences of home/homelessness. In advancing a new approach to work with the politics ofTrade Review“Michele Lancione has given us a tremendous gift with this pathbreaking and brilliant book. His arguments will be of immense meaning for social movements concerned with housing justice, many of which are grappling with regimes of property and the affective politics of home. The study of housing and homelessness will not be the same.” -- Ananya Roy, author of * Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development *“By mobilizing a new methodological, conceptual, and political grammar in which home and homelessness are not opposite but coherent expressions of a wider function of patriarchal and racialized processes of expulsions and extractions, this book offers a whole new perspective to imagine housing futures toward housing justice in which ‘housing precarity’ is not only a site for deprivation and relegation or a ‘problem to be fixed’ but can also perform a new politics of inhabitation.” -- Raquel Rolnik, author of * Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Problem of Lessness 1 Part I 1. The Subject at Home 25 2. Expulsion and Extraction 43 Part II 3. Italian Ritornellos 69 4. A Local Violence 99 5. A Global Culture 131 Part III 6. The Micropolitics of Housing Precarity 173 7. Deinstitute, Reinstitute, Institute 195 Conclusion. Beyond Inhabitation 223 Notes 233 Bibliography 257 Index 279

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Book SynopsisHow low-income people cope with the emotional dimensions of poverty Could a lack of close, meaningful social ties be a publicrather than just a privateproblem? In Social Poverty, Sarah Halpern-Meekin provides a much-needed window into the nature of social ties among low-income, unmarried parents, highlighting their often-ignored forms of hardship. Drawing on in-depth interviews with thirty-one couples, collected during their participation in a government-sponsored relationship education program called Family Expectations, she brings unprecedented attention to the relational and emotional dimensions of socioeconomic disadvantage. Poverty scholars typically focus on the economic use value of social tiesfor example, how relationships enable access to job leads, informal loans, or a spare bedroom.However, Halpern-Meekin introduces the important new concept of social poverty, identifying it not just as a derivative of economic poverty, but as its own condition, which also perpetuates povertTrade Review"Halpern-Meekin makes worthy critiques to try to strengthen public policy to support relationship education … Halpern-Meekin’s in-depth understanding of these couples’ lives allows her to add the lens of social poverty to help us understand why stressed and struggling couples are drawn to these programs and how the programs could actually help them." -- Institute for Family Studies"In this thoughtful and important book, Sarah Halpern-Meekin reframes decades-long debates over the value and efficacy of government-supported relationship and marriage education programs. Drawing on rich in-depth research into the lives and relationships of low-income, unmarried couples, Social Poverty powerfully shows how policy can play a key role in alleviating, not only economic deprivation, but families unmet, though equally important needs for emotional closeness, intimacy, and support. With a smart set of recommendations researchers, practitioners, and policymakers should heed, this book is crucial reading for a sophisticated and beautifully written analysis of how promoting social connection can and should be at the heart of anti-poverty policy." -- Jennifer Randles,author of Proposing Prosperity?: Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America"What would happen if we considered the relationships that sustain us as important as financial resources, or if we viewed isolation or loneliness as serious social problems as we do disease? With the deceptively simple concept of 'social poverty,' Halpern-Meekin asks us to recognize the tremendous inherent value of human connection, and greatly expands our capacity to understand the costs of low-income couples thin emotional ties to other people....She picks her way through the detritus of the marriage promotion debates to issue her own clarion call: we should consider social poverty as important as income poverty, and aim to redress both." -- Allison Pugh,author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity"Essential. Halpern-Meekin writes with deep sympathy and understanding." * Choice *"Halpern-Meekin makes a compelling argument for considering essential concepts like poverty in new and multifaceted ways." * Journal of Children and Poverty *

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Book SynopsisThe riveting story of control over the mobility of poor migrants, and how their movements shaped current perceptions of class and status in the United States Vagrants. Vagabonds. Hoboes. Identified by myriad names, the homeless and geographically mobile have been with us since the earliest periods of recorded history. In the early days of the United States, these poor migrants consisting of everyone from work-seekers to runaway slaves populated the roads and streets of major cities and towns. These individuals were a part of a social class whose geographical movements broke settlement laws, penal codes, and welfare policies. This book documents their travels and experiences across the Atlantic world, excavating their life stories from the records of criminal justice systems and relief organizations. Vagrants and Vagabonds examines the subsistence activities of the mobile poor, from migration to wage labor to petty theft, and how local and state municipal authoriTrade ReviewAmericans in the early republic believed that their ability to movegeographically, socially, economicallywas the essence of their freedom. They trusted that capitalism offered upward mobility and that an expansive republic would prove an empire for liberty in which law would protect property rights. Vagrants and Vagabonds offers an important corrective to these ideas. Capitalist transformation forced poor Americans to move often and in ways they did not necessarily choose. Vagrancy law limited their movements and curtailed their freedom. OBrassill-Kulfan's important book reminds us that mobility helped to entrench inequality in the United States as much as it enabled American dreams. -- Brian Luskey,author of On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century AmericaKristin OBrassill-Kulfans study of the mobility of poor and otherwise unwanted members of society, and the efforts of authorities to dictate and control their movement, tells us much about the life of multiple subaltern groups in the antebellum U.S. in a way that is especially relevant today. She addresses forced migration, incarceration, and exclusion, bringing all of these issues of mobility together in a multifaceted study that should be required reading for anyone interested in early U.S. history, the carceral state, and poverty in the U.S. Her important book adds much to the historiography of a number of fields, including early U.S. history, labor history, racial and ethnic history, and poverty studies. It is essential reading for policy makers and political scientists today who want to understand the history of race- and class-based exclusion in the U.S. -- Beverly Tomek,author of Colonization and its DiscontentsO’Brassill-Kulfan’s careful analysis of mid-Atlantic indigent transients yields important insights into the legal definitions of community membership and citizenship in the early republic. Vagrants and Vagabonds is a valuable study. * Journal of American History *O'Brassill-Kulfan studies vagrancy and migration in the early American republic as a window into a broader understanding of poverty ... Steeped in the intersections of race, class, and gender with labor history, O'Brassill-Kulfan’s study will appeal to scholars in these areas. * Choice *Vagrants and Vagabonds is an important book and deserves wide readership ... a valuable addition to the historiographies on poverty, migration, emancipation, and governance in the early American republic. Those interested in the Civil War era will appreciate two foci in particular: how northern states responded to northern emancipation, and how fugitive slave laws fit in the context of vagrancy laws. Those interested in policing and immigration will also find much of interest in this work. Vagrants and Vagabonds sheds scholarly light on the laws and people who quietly shaped how Americans moved about the country in the early republic. * The Journal of the Civil War Era *An excellent analysis of the systems of coercion and control that the authorities attempted to impose on indigent transiency in this period, while also providing much insight into the other overlapping issues at the same time. O’Brassill-Kulfan’s decision to foreground the lives and stories of particular individuals makes it a powerful book. One might have presented this material in abstract descriptions of different groups and structures—an angle of analysis that she also includes in places—but at the heart of Vagrants are the people themselves and their daily struggles against the combined forces of economic distress and official hostility. * Journal of Social History *Brings to life the individuals who were being judged, institutionalized, and transported ... Vagrants and Vagabonds is at its best when exploring the experiences of the individuals and families caught up in the government system for poor relief and removal ... does an admirable job of telling the stories within as much context for each as she can provide. Placing the movement of individuals at the center of the story allows for a varied and complicated understanding of the lives of the poor. * Civil War Book Review *Vagrants and Vagabonds proves the critical importance of considering poverty and mobility for analysis of the early American republic and beyond. Scholars of policing, incarceration, and poverty and both undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from this important text. * Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography *

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Book SynopsisSurviving Poverty carefully examines the experiences of people living below the poverty level, looking in particular at the tension between social isolation and social ties among the poor. Joan Maya Mazelis draws on in-depth interviews with poor people in Philadelphia to explore how they survive and the benefits they gain by being connected to one another. Half of the study participants are members of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a distinctive organization that brings poor people together in the struggle to survive. The mutually supportive relationships the members create, which last for years, even decades, contrast dramatically with the experiences of participants without such affiliation. In interviews, participants discuss their struggles and hardships, and their responses highlight the importance of cultivating relationships among people living in poverty. Surviving Poverty documents the ways in which social ties become beneficial and sustainable, allowing members to shareTrade Review"Surviving Poverty eschews easy generalizations about how poor women manage their circumstances. In a richly detailed study, it paints a complex picture in which people differ widely in their attitudes about mobility and about getting help from others and in their use of social networks to manage the difficulties of poverty. Rejecting a narrative that blames the victim, Mazelis depicts people who exercise agency in their lives and whose complex attitudes about social support networks resist easy explanation. A must-read study for anyone concerned with policies that take into account the role of networks in how people manage poverty." -- Mario Luis Small,author of Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life"A compelling narrative of a remarkable poor people's movement that builds sustainable ties that are vital to survival while providing an antidote to crippling self-blame. This book is jam-packed with essential insights for anyone--scholars, students, practitioners, advocates--who cares about America's poor." -- Kathryn J. Edin,co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America"The book provides a compelling account of how KWRU members lives would likely have been worse without KWRU and that much of what KWRU provided was these sustainable ties." * American Journal of Sociology *"Mazelis presents a well-written, deeply contextualized account of 50 individuals experiencing financial hardships and the decision-making practices that impact their daily struggles." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisSurviving Poverty carefully examines the experiences of people living below the poverty level, looking in particular at the tension between social isolation and social ties among the poor. Joan Maya Mazelis draws on in-depth interviews with poor people in Philadelphia to explore how they survive and the benefits they gain by being connected to one another. Half of the study participants are members of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a distinctive organization that brings poor people together in the struggle to survive. The mutually supportive relationships the members create, which last for years, even decades, contrast dramatically with the experiences of participants without such affiliation. In interviews, participants discuss their struggles and hardships, and their responses highlight the importance of cultivating relationships among people living in poverty. Surviving Poverty documents the ways in which social ties become beneficial and sustainable, allowing members to shareTrade ReviewSurviving Poverty eschews easy generalizations about how poor women manage their circumstances. In a richly detailed study, it paints a complex picture in which people differ widely in their attitudes about mobility and about getting help from others and in their use of social networks to manage the difficulties of poverty. Rejecting a narrative that blames the victim, Mazelis depicts people who exercise agency in their lives and whose complex attitudes about social support networks resist easy explanation. A must-read study for anyone concerned with policies that take into account the role of networks in how people manage poverty. -- Mario Luis Small,author of Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday LifeA compelling narrative of a remarkable poor people's movement that builds sustainable ties that are vital to survival while providing an antidote to crippling self-blame. This book is jam-packed with essential insights for anyone--scholars, students, practitioners, advocates--who cares about America's poor. -- Kathryn J. Edin,co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in AmericaThe book provides a compelling account of how KWRU members lives would likely have been worse without KWRU and that much of what KWRU provided was these sustainable ties. * American Journal of Sociology *Mazelis presents a well-written, deeply contextualized account of 50 individuals experiencing financial hardships and the decision-making practices that impact their daily struggles. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social programs meant to support disadvantaged Americans Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding, leaving us with nursing homes and juvenile detention centers that sedate residents to reduce costs and maximize profit, local governments buying nursing homes to take the facilities' federal aid while the elderly languish with poor care, and counties hiring companies to mine the poor for additional funds in modern day debtor's prisTrade ReviewHatcher exposes an urgent paradox at the heart of American governance: why, and how, are states and localities teaming up with corporations to squeeze profits from societys poorest? The Poverty Industry breaks fresh ground. Every American who cares about the intersection of private profits and public justice should read this book, and wrestle with its arguments. Hatcher marshals years of legal experience and research towards fulfilling the muckrakers calling: 'to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.' But he also goes a step further. In The Poverty Industry, he combines a practitioners depth with a journalists flair for storytelling, to generate the first complete account of a little-known phenomenon that should be of interest to every reader with a conscience. -- Sarah Stillman, staff writer for The New YorkerEveryone today is skeptical of charitable organizations that spend too little of their money on charity. After reading this book, Americans are sure to become just as skeptical when state and local governments spend federal tax dollars. Hatchers tour-de-force spells out how federal government spending on services for the poor are being wasted. . . . No one who reads this book will ever feel the same about fiscal federalism. . . . Hatcher shows that a shocking amount of money is going to profit private businesses. Even worse, these businesses are teaching state and local governments how to scam the feds by taking money for one purpose and misusing it to help fill a hole in the state budget outside of the purposes for which the money is being given. An extremely important book. -- Martin Guggenheim, Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law, New York UniversityIn the tradition of great muckraking, Hatcher has exposed how states and localities have misdirected and misused public funds envisioned to benefit the most vulnerable among us. . . . Should be required reading for lawmakers and public officials, to remind them of their legal and moral responsibilities and to inspire them to stop these disturbing practices and direct these crucial resources to their rightful recipients. -- Jane M. Spinak, Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia University[An] important book...Hatcher has done a great public service by shining a light on these massive distortions. * Stanford Social Innovation Review *In this meticulously researched book Hatcher, who has represented vulnerable people in court for years, including children in foster care, lifts the lid on a system that rather than helping the needy, systematically turns them into 'a source of revenue'. * The Guardian,Mary O'Hara *Daniel Hatcher meticulously explains the impact of deregulated privatisation on America's already residual care services. * Times Higher Education *Hatcher provides beautiful examples of unintended consequences of government policies: states rip off the federal government because the federal government has unwittingly incentivized the states to do exactly that. * Choice *A law professor at the University of Baltimore who has represented Maryland victims of such schemes, Hatcher presents a distressing picture of how states routinely defraud taxpayers of millions of federal dollars. * Boston Review *Hatcher throws light on what can be hidden processes in human services budgeting, contracting, and implementation. The Poverty Industry walks through the evolution of legal doctrine regarding rights of vulnerable persons...The narrative provides compelling evidence that scholars, policymakers, and advocates should take a closer look at the political and business relationships shaping contracting decisions involving for-profit firms. * Political Science Quarterly *"Poverty is here painted as an industry that, like the defense industry, has an iron triangle. As explored by Hatcher, it depicts revenue maximization services and contingency fees that decrease the funds from the federal government that go to helping children and the poor. * Library Journal *The Poverty Industry exposes the venality of a startling number of public servants and private contractors who misdirect and misuse public funds intended to benefit those most in need. * Jewish Currents *

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Book SynopsisHow low-income people cope with the emotional dimensions of poverty Could a lack of close, meaningful social ties be a publicrather than just a privateproblem? In Social Poverty, Sarah Halpern-Meekin provides a much-needed window into the nature of social ties among low-income, unmarried parents, highlighting their often-ignored forms of hardship. Drawing on in-depth interviews with thirty-one couples, collected during their participation in a government-sponsored relationship education program called Family Expectations, she brings unprecedented attention to the relational and emotional dimensions of socioeconomic disadvantage. Poverty scholars typically focus on the economic use value of social tiesfor example, how relationships enable access to job leads, informal loans, or a spare bedroom.However, Halpern-Meekin introduces the important new concept of social poverty, identifying it not just as a derivative of economic poverty, but as its own condition, which also perpetuates povertTrade Review"Halpern-Meekin makes worthy critiques to try to strengthen public policy to support relationship education … Halpern-Meekin’s in-depth understanding of these couples’ lives allows her to add the lens of social poverty to help us understand why stressed and struggling couples are drawn to these programs and how the programs could actually help them." -- Institute for Family Studies"In this thoughtful and important book, Sarah Halpern-Meekin reframes decades-long debates over the value and efficacy of government-supported relationship and marriage education programs. Drawing on rich in-depth research into the lives and relationships of low-income, unmarried couples, Social Poverty powerfully shows how policy can play a key role in alleviating, not only economic deprivation, but families unmet, though equally important needs for emotional closeness, intimacy, and support. With a smart set of recommendations researchers, practitioners, and policymakers should heed, this book is crucial reading for a sophisticated and beautifully written analysis of how promoting social connection can and should be at the heart of anti-poverty policy." -- Jennifer Randles,author of Proposing Prosperity?: Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America"What would happen if we considered the relationships that sustain us as important as financial resources, or if we viewed isolation or loneliness as serious social problems as we do disease? With the deceptively simple concept of 'social poverty,' Halpern-Meekin asks us to recognize the tremendous inherent value of human connection, and greatly expands our capacity to understand the costs of low-income couples thin emotional ties to other people....She picks her way through the detritus of the marriage promotion debates to issue her own clarion call: we should consider social poverty as important as income poverty, and aim to redress both." -- Allison Pugh,author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity"Essential. Halpern-Meekin writes with deep sympathy and understanding." * Choice *"Halpern-Meekin makes a compelling argument for considering essential concepts like poverty in new and multifaceted ways." * Journal of Children and Poverty *

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Book SynopsisCombating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades. While Canada is routinely classified as a single, homogeneous ‘liberal market’ regime, social and labour market policy falls within provincial jurisdiction resulting in a considerable divergence in policy mixes and outcomes between provinces. This volume offers a detailed survey of social and labour market policies since the early 2000s in Canada’s four largest provinces Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta showing the full extent to which Canada’s major provinces have chosen diverging policy paths. Quebec has succeeded in emulating European and even Nordic social democratic levels of poverty for some groups, while poverty rates and patterns in the other provinces remain close to the high levels characteristic of the North Trade Review"This book is worth reading to understand different poverty levels in Canada, and how Quebec has achieved the lowest level of poverty. It remains open for educators, students, researchers, and policymakers to decide the extent to which Quebec’s policies may be applied to other regions." -- Jaewon Lee, Michigan State University * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol 46 no 1 *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Quebec's Exceptionalism in Context Chapter 1: Social and Employment Policies at the Provincial Level: A Survey of Four Provinces Chapter 2: Poverty: Measures and Trends Chapter 3: Poverty and the Changing Family Chapter 4: Chronic Poverty Chapter 5: Activation and Poverty Chapter 6: How Exceptional Is Quebec Conclusion: Towards the Provincialization of the Social Union? Works Cited Notes

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Book SynopsisErik Hansson examines Swedish society's reactions to the presence of European Union citizens, mainly Romanian and Bulgarian Roma, begging in the 2010s.Trade Review"This brilliant and intense book is recommended for anyone conducting research on homelessness and urban poverty in general."—Hélène B. Ducros, EuropeNow“Politically urgent, theoretically exciting, and beautifully written, The Begging Question combines razor-sharp materialist and psychoanalytic analysis to offer a radical rethinking of begging and of how to escape the limited political and ethical imaginaries that surround it.”—Felicity Callard, professor of human geography at the University of Glasgow“Artfully exposes the unconscious underpinnings of social democracy in Sweden, showing how it is laced with proclivities to scapegoat the Other. Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary forms of racism and poverty.”—Ilan Kapoor, professor of critical development studies at York University, Toronto“Erik Hansson innovatively combines theories of psychoanalysis, class dynamics, and racism to explain anxieties in encountering begging and contradictory political responses to the arrival of Roma from the European Union.”—Michael Jones, professor emeritus of geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology“A rich and thought-provoking examination of the emergence of racialized poverty and begging in one of Europe’s historically most egalitarian social democracies. Drawing creatively on Marxist and psychoanalytic theory, Erik Hansson opens a vital space to reflect—politically and psychically—on what inequality, nationalism, and the politics of redistribution mean in Sweden today.”—Jesse Proudfoot, assistant professor of sociology at Durham UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Don Mitchell Acknowledgments The Problem: An Introduction Part 1. Anxiety: The Universal in the Particular 1. Searching for Elucidations 2. The Concrete’s Historical Layers 3. Abjection, or Hell Is Othered People 4. Anxiety and Ethics 5. Ideology, or Enjoying the National Thing Part 2. Hegemony: The Particular in the Universal 6. The Swedish Ideology, or Missing Exceptional Equality 7. The Tolerant Stance of Inaction, 2010–2015 8. The Borromean Welfare Knot 9. The Conjuncture, 2015–2019 The Problem: An Epitome Notes Bibliography Index

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