Poverty and precarity Books

Book SynopsisPresident Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty instigated a ferocious backlash in Mississippi. Federally funded programs--the embodiment of 1960s liberalism--directly clashed with Mississippi's closed society. From 1965 to 1973, opposing forces transformed the state.In this state-level history of the war on poverty, Emma J. Folwell traces the attempts of white and black Mississippians to address the state's dire economic circumstances through antipoverty programs. At times, the war on poverty became a powerful tool for black empowerment. But more often, antipoverty programs served as a potent catalyst of white resistance to black advancement.After the momentous events of 1964, both black activism and white opposition to black empowerment evolved due to these federal efforts. White Mississippians deployed massive resistance in part to stifle any black economic empowerment, twisting antipoverty programs into tools to marginalize black political power. Folwell u

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Book SynopsisIn this state-level history of the war on poverty, Emma Folwell traces the attempts of white and black Mississippians to address the state's dire economic circumstances through antipoverty programs.

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Book SynopsisThe Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life.Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her co-author, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling look at what it means and what it takes to be homeless. Interviews and encounters with dozens of homeless people lead us into a world that most have never seen. We travel as an intimate observer into the places that many homeless frequent, including a community shelter, a day labor agency, a panhandling corner, a pawn shop, and a HUD housing office.Through these personal stories, we witness the obstacles that homeless people face, and the ingenuity it takes to negotiate life without a home. The Man in the Dog Park points to the ways that our own cultural assumptions and blind spots are complicit in US homelessness and contribute to the degree of suffering that homeless people face. At the same time, Small, Kordosky and Moore show us how our own senTrade ReviewThe strength of this book is that Small takes readers with her on her journey of discovery about homelessness. This book is a wonderful introduction to the study of homelessness. * Choice *Table of Contents1. The Beginning 2. The Road to Homelessness 3. The Stigma of Being Homeless 4. A Sheltered. Homeless Day 5. On the Street 6. Making Money 7. Navigating the Bereaucracy 8. Home at Last 9. Blind and Delusional

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Book SynopsisLooking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on fieldwork in a slum of Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis argues that money is a critical symbol used to negotiate not only material possessions, but also the political, economic, class, gender, and generational bonds between people. Through vivid accounts of the stark realities of life in Villa Olimpia, Wilkis highlights the interplay of money, morality, and power. Drawing out the theoretical implications of these stories, he proposes a new concept of moral capital based on different kinds, or "pieces," of money. Each chapter covers a different "piece"—money earned from the informal and illegal economies, money lent through family and market relations, money donated with conditional cash transfers, political money that binds politicians and their supporters, sacrificed money offered to the church, and safeguarded money used to support people facing hardships. This book builds an original theory of the moral sociology of money, providing the tools for understanding the role money plays in social life today.Trade Review"Wilkis set out to study the power and politics in greater Buenos Aires, but what he discovered was money: money's morality, variegation, and fragmentation. This remarkable ethnography opens a window into everyday popular politics and solidarities, offering lessons beyond the case of Argentina and into people's moneyworlds and moral orders more broadly." -- Bill Maurer * author of How Would You Like To Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money *"Thanks to Ariel Wilkis for bringing compelling insight into our understanding of how money really works. Gracefully blending theoretical analysis with fascinating ethnographic observation, The Moral Power of Money makes a stellar contribution to economic and cultural sociology. A book that will inspire researchers and fascinate general readers." -- Viviana A. Zelizer * Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, author of The Social Meaning of Money and Economic Lives *"Ariel Wilkis offers a richly detailed ethnographic exploration of all the different and co-existing ethical frames within which money is judged by the poor, and on 'how money connects them.' We hear many people's own moral language, in their own life situations. These accounts will provoke yet further research in many other places, and Wilkis's approach will become exemplary." -- Jane I. Guyer * Johns Hopkins University *"The primary material makes the book an engaging read. One of the effects of looking at the various pieces of money important to villeros is that it gives us a better understanding of how interdependent they are in real life, and how individuals and families strategize. The attention to family is welcome and helps highlight relations of cooperation, power, and hierarchy on the ground; not just between poor communities and the larger society, but also within these homes and communities....The book will be of interest in the fields of international development, sociology, and anthropology....The book will be of interest to scholars of Argentina, money, the urban poor, and grass roots politics. It is suitable both for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses." * Lindsay DuBois *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Money and Moral Capital chapter abstractMoney is an insightful way of understanding the relations between macro-social processes and the experiences of the poor. Understanding these dynamics helps to identify the current conditions for social integration among those who have the least to benefit from processes like globalization, financialization and neoliberalism. This book reveals that sociology is interested in the social realities money helps to shape. Money is morally ubiquitous because it has a hand in social orders, moral hierarchies and power relations. No piece of money is more moral than the next: all revolve around the efforts to establish, appropriate and accumulate moral capital. Money appears as a conceptual and methodological tool. This book offers a new focus for interpreting the multiple power relations that configure the world of the poor. The moral dimension of money plays a critical role in forging economic, class, political, gender and generational bonds. 1Lent Money chapter abstractBy examining how consumer credit began expanding to low-income sectors in 2003, this chapter unveils the moral hierarchies rooted in the circulation of lent money. This chapter shows the moral ubiquity of money lent in heterogeneous situations, both formal and informal where money circulates. It also reveals how moral capital becomes a guarantee that sustains the power relations at the core of these situations. For those with scarce economic and cultural assets, the daily management of finances involves fighting to have their values acknowledged. Moral capital is their passport. However, like all forms of acknowledgment, it is rare and thus can become a form of domination that some are forced to accept in order to access the material benefits capitalism has to offer. 2Earned Money chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes how the underground economy operates as a moral space of income. This exploration will reveal the dynamics of questioning and legitimizing what has to be done to earn money. The concept of moral capital is a useful instrument for understanding how this piece circulates or is taken out of circulation in response to a moral assessment of people's actions. Having moral capital is the way in to these economic transactions that are not regulated by law. Informal and illegal markets are moral spaces where the legitimacy of money earned comes into play. To get involved in these transactions, moral hierarchies are established among participants and they are the also the prerequisites for successful participation. 3Donated Money chapter abstractConditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have become the paradigm of the struggle against poverty. These programs have progressively expanded to around thirty countries in the region that has come to be known as the Global South. This expansion changed the household budgets of the poor and became a focus of public debate. The use of money donated by the State became a way to morally discredit the poor. This chapter reconstructed the place of money donated by the state in different hierarchies of money. It identifies the different strategies individuals use to elude the biases associated with this type of money such as stigma cleansing rituals, exclusion strategies and silence in response to such judgments. The reconstructed scenes show how monetary hierarchies uphold power relations among those who have the authority to judge and those who must acquiesce to such biases. 4Political Money chapter abstractThrough the processes of democratization in Argentina (and most of Latin America) that began at the beginning of the 1980s, political scientists and sociologists began examining money in political life through the financial of political parties and the political clientelism. This chapter goes beyond a narrative of money's instrumental use in politics. Has the monetization of political activities dissolved values, commitments, and loyalties among the poor? Is this corruption or an ethical exchange among people who lack cash but possess moral capital? This chapter explores how politics involves power relations that can be understood through the moral dimension of money. This chapter shows how residents of a slum made political money the accounting unit to acknowledge the fulfillment of political obligations that bind leaders and their followers together in relationships of power. To put it more succinctly, this community places political money at the core of its collective life. 5Sacrifice Money chapter abstractThis chapter narrates the competition between political and religious leaders of Villa Olimpia. It shows how these power struggles are rooted in the accumulation of moral capital associated with the pieces of money. Both religious and political networks create social distinctions among their members. While circulating, political and sacrificed money carry a series of social orders and hierarchies of money that often overlap. Each piece is indecipherable outside of the hierarchy of money and at the same time projects a social hierarchy. Between the two pieces, there is fiery competition for the range of objects and people involved. These two puzzle pieces, regulated by specific systems of feelings and perspectives, compete with one another. 6Safeguard Money chapter abstractThe pieces of money produce a hierarchy among family members to determine each family's ranking in the social order. The different pieces of money form a unit that allows us to observe and understand the family universe. On the one hand, they help us understand intergenerational relations. This piece of money shows how people create and recreate the family social order in the sphere of money, which involves both mutual assistance and conflicts, helping complete family projects or tearing them apart. On the other hand, they help us understand gender relations as well. Safeguarded money's circulation carries gendered obligations. Poor women are viewed positively when they safeguard their households both emotionally and economically. In the hands of women money had to be used to guarantee family continuity. Any other use of the money would be questionable, transforming the safeguarded money into suspicious money. Conclusion: Conclusion chapter abstractThis book analyzes the way in which social orders founded on money come into being. Each chapter of this book contributes to a better understanding of the moral sociology of money, which in turn contributes to other areas of knowledge within sociology. These contributions from the moral sociology of money stem from an ethnographic reconstruction of the everyday life of poor people who live in Villa Olimpia. This work identified and assembled the pieces of money that best captured the dynamics of solidarity and conflict that characterized social bonds. However, this book takes the arguments, concepts and empirical evidence presented in the hope of reimagining economic sociology outside Villa Olimpia and the world of the poor. The moral sociology of money that is a theoretical and methodological toolbox that can be applied to other social worlds, establishing bridges with other areas of knowledge in sociology.

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Book SynopsisLooking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on fieldwork in a slum of Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis argues that money is a critical symbol used to negotiate not only material possessions, but also the political, economic, class, gender, and generational bonds between people. Through vivid accounts of the stark realities of life in Villa Olimpia, Wilkis highlights the interplay of money, morality, and power. Drawing out the theoretical implications of these stories, he proposes a new concept of moral capital based on different kinds, or "pieces," of money. Each chapter covers a different "piece"—money earned from the informal and illegal economies, money lent through family and market relations, money donated with conditional cash transfers, political money that binds politicians and their supporters, sacrificed money offered to the church, and safeguarded money used to support people facing hardships. This book builds an original theory of the moral sociology of money, providing the tools for understanding the role money plays in social life today.Trade Review"Wilkis set out to study the power and politics in greater Buenos Aires, but what he discovered was money: money's morality, variegation, and fragmentation. This remarkable ethnography opens a window into everyday popular politics and solidarities, offering lessons beyond the case of Argentina and into people's moneyworlds and moral orders more broadly." -- Bill Maurer * author of How Would You Like To Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money *"Thanks to Ariel Wilkis for bringing compelling insight into our understanding of how money really works. Gracefully blending theoretical analysis with fascinating ethnographic observation, The Moral Power of Money makes a stellar contribution to economic and cultural sociology. A book that will inspire researchers and fascinate general readers." -- Viviana A. Zelizer * Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, author of The Social Meaning of Money and Economic Lives *"Ariel Wilkis offers a richly detailed ethnographic exploration of all the different and co-existing ethical frames within which money is judged by the poor, and on 'how money connects them.' We hear many people's own moral language, in their own life situations. These accounts will provoke yet further research in many other places, and Wilkis's approach will become exemplary." -- Jane I. Guyer * Johns Hopkins University *"The primary material makes the book an engaging read. One of the effects of looking at the various pieces of money important to villeros is that it gives us a better understanding of how interdependent they are in real life, and how individuals and families strategize. The attention to family is welcome and helps highlight relations of cooperation, power, and hierarchy on the ground; not just between poor communities and the larger society, but also within these homes and communities....The book will be of interest in the fields of international development, sociology, and anthropology....The book will be of interest to scholars of Argentina, money, the urban poor, and grass roots politics. It is suitable both for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses." * Lindsay DuBois *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Money and Moral Capital chapter abstractMoney is an insightful way of understanding the relations between macro-social processes and the experiences of the poor. Understanding these dynamics helps to identify the current conditions for social integration among those who have the least to benefit from processes like globalization, financialization and neoliberalism. This book reveals that sociology is interested in the social realities money helps to shape. Money is morally ubiquitous because it has a hand in social orders, moral hierarchies and power relations. No piece of money is more moral than the next: all revolve around the efforts to establish, appropriate and accumulate moral capital. Money appears as a conceptual and methodological tool. This book offers a new focus for interpreting the multiple power relations that configure the world of the poor. The moral dimension of money plays a critical role in forging economic, class, political, gender and generational bonds. 1Lent Money chapter abstractBy examining how consumer credit began expanding to low-income sectors in 2003, this chapter unveils the moral hierarchies rooted in the circulation of lent money. This chapter shows the moral ubiquity of money lent in heterogeneous situations, both formal and informal where money circulates. It also reveals how moral capital becomes a guarantee that sustains the power relations at the core of these situations. For those with scarce economic and cultural assets, the daily management of finances involves fighting to have their values acknowledged. Moral capital is their passport. However, like all forms of acknowledgment, it is rare and thus can become a form of domination that some are forced to accept in order to access the material benefits capitalism has to offer. 2Earned Money chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes how the underground economy operates as a moral space of income. This exploration will reveal the dynamics of questioning and legitimizing what has to be done to earn money. The concept of moral capital is a useful instrument for understanding how this piece circulates or is taken out of circulation in response to a moral assessment of people's actions. Having moral capital is the way in to these economic transactions that are not regulated by law. Informal and illegal markets are moral spaces where the legitimacy of money earned comes into play. To get involved in these transactions, moral hierarchies are established among participants and they are the also the prerequisites for successful participation. 3Donated Money chapter abstractConditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have become the paradigm of the struggle against poverty. These programs have progressively expanded to around thirty countries in the region that has come to be known as the Global South. This expansion changed the household budgets of the poor and became a focus of public debate. The use of money donated by the State became a way to morally discredit the poor. This chapter reconstructed the place of money donated by the state in different hierarchies of money. It identifies the different strategies individuals use to elude the biases associated with this type of money such as stigma cleansing rituals, exclusion strategies and silence in response to such judgments. The reconstructed scenes show how monetary hierarchies uphold power relations among those who have the authority to judge and those who must acquiesce to such biases. 4Political Money chapter abstractThrough the processes of democratization in Argentina (and most of Latin America) that began at the beginning of the 1980s, political scientists and sociologists began examining money in political life through the financial of political parties and the political clientelism. This chapter goes beyond a narrative of money's instrumental use in politics. Has the monetization of political activities dissolved values, commitments, and loyalties among the poor? Is this corruption or an ethical exchange among people who lack cash but possess moral capital? This chapter explores how politics involves power relations that can be understood through the moral dimension of money. This chapter shows how residents of a slum made political money the accounting unit to acknowledge the fulfillment of political obligations that bind leaders and their followers together in relationships of power. To put it more succinctly, this community places political money at the core of its collective life. 5Sacrifice Money chapter abstractThis chapter narrates the competition between political and religious leaders of Villa Olimpia. It shows how these power struggles are rooted in the accumulation of moral capital associated with the pieces of money. Both religious and political networks create social distinctions among their members. While circulating, political and sacrificed money carry a series of social orders and hierarchies of money that often overlap. Each piece is indecipherable outside of the hierarchy of money and at the same time projects a social hierarchy. Between the two pieces, there is fiery competition for the range of objects and people involved. These two puzzle pieces, regulated by specific systems of feelings and perspectives, compete with one another. 6Safeguard Money chapter abstractThe pieces of money produce a hierarchy among family members to determine each family's ranking in the social order. The different pieces of money form a unit that allows us to observe and understand the family universe. On the one hand, they help us understand intergenerational relations. This piece of money shows how people create and recreate the family social order in the sphere of money, which involves both mutual assistance and conflicts, helping complete family projects or tearing them apart. On the other hand, they help us understand gender relations as well. Safeguarded money's circulation carries gendered obligations. Poor women are viewed positively when they safeguard their households both emotionally and economically. In the hands of women money had to be used to guarantee family continuity. Any other use of the money would be questionable, transforming the safeguarded money into suspicious money. Conclusion: Conclusion chapter abstractThis book analyzes the way in which social orders founded on money come into being. Each chapter of this book contributes to a better understanding of the moral sociology of money, which in turn contributes to other areas of knowledge within sociology. These contributions from the moral sociology of money stem from an ethnographic reconstruction of the everyday life of poor people who live in Villa Olimpia. This work identified and assembled the pieces of money that best captured the dynamics of solidarity and conflict that characterized social bonds. However, this book takes the arguments, concepts and empirical evidence presented in the hope of reimagining economic sociology outside Villa Olimpia and the world of the poor. The moral sociology of money that is a theoretical and methodological toolbox that can be applied to other social worlds, establishing bridges with other areas of knowledge in sociology.

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Book SynopsisThe gaping holes in the U.S. and Canadian social safety nets mean that many people live in a state of financial precarity that can instantly become untenable in the face of another big expense, such as a large medical bill or damaged property. Historically, people have turned to their communities, neighbors, families, and loved ones for help in these situations. Today, asking for money on the internet through crowdfunding is among the most popular ways of seeking and donating to charity, and for-profit enterprises have realized that tapping into this instinct for helping is extremely good business. GoFailMe reveals how these sites, most notably GoFundMe, enjoy massive revenue, without providing the help they promise. They fail most of their users while putting them through an emotional rollercoaster and using sneaky tactics to obscure that reality. With unprecedented access to interviews, surveys, and hundreds of thousands of crowdfunding cases across North America, Erik Schneiderhan and Martin Lukk take on pressing questions with critical insight: When do we turn to others for help? Who succeeds and who fails in the digital crowd? Whom do these sites benefit? Ultimately, the failure of GoFundMe and others is emblematic of the inability of the for-profit sector and Big Tech to engineer an end to social inequality. Trade Review"Cancer, emergency, dreams at risk. Through new technologies of crowdfunding, these crises elicit help from friends, family and strangers. While admirable, this extended altruism often disappoints and fails to meet the gaps in a weakening social safety net. Incisive, rigorously original, and accessible, GoFailMe illuminates how a new industry is reshaping social solidarity."—Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago"Crowdfunding has become an important part of contemporary philanthropy, providing opportunities for ethical expression as well as needed transfers of funds. Like social media, it offers individuals a chance to engage directly in providing help, whether to friends or to strangers, without relying on traditional institutions. In this first major study of digital philanthropy, Schneiderhan and Lukk provide narratives showing what this means for the donors and beneficiaries, and also what reveals about charity in a shifting social context."—Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University"In their compelling, well-documented book, [Schneiderhan and Lukk] examine thousands of crowdsourcing cases across Canada and the U.S. on websites like GoFundMe. Their book shows that sites like these often fail users and are rife with inequities that closely parallel the social problems that plague societies today.... For readers who are contemplating either setting up a crowdsourcing site or donating to one."—Ellen Gilbert, Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Rise of Digital Crowdfunding Chapter 2: A Well of Sadness Chapter 3: A Very Daunting Task Chapter 4: Queen for A Day? Chapter 5: What to Know Better, Do Better, Help Better

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Book SynopsisSince the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe. Housing in particular has become increasingly precarious. In response, many movements now contest the long-held promises and established terms of the private ownership of housing. Immigrant activism has played an important, if understudied, role in such struggles over collective consumption. In Dispossession and Dissent, Sophie Gonick examines the intersection of homeownership and immigrant activism through an analysis of Spain's anti-evictions movement, now a hallmark for housing struggles across the globe. Madrid was the crucible for Spain's urban planning and policy, its millennial economic boom (1998–2008), and its more recent mobilizations in response to crisis. During the boom, the city also experienced rapid, unprecedented immigration. Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, Gonick uncovers the city's histories of homeownership and immigration to demonstrate the pivotal role of Andean immigrants within this movement, as the first to contest dispossession from mortgage-related foreclosures and evictions. Consequently, they forged a potent politics of dissent, which drew upon migratory experiences and indigenous traditions of activism to contest foreclosures and evictions.Trade Review"In this beautifully crafted ethnography, Sophie Gonick reveals the dark side of speculative homeownership and the startling vibrancy and camaraderie of immigrant-led urban activism. A wonderful treatise on these turbulent yet hopeful times."—Michael Goldman, author of Imperial Nature"Gonick offers a counter-narrative to familiar accounts that emphasize rising nativism and xenophobia amid segments of the working classes in southern Europe. There are important lessons here for how broad-based progressive alliances can form in the face of collapsing property markets and accumulation by dispossession."—Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago"Dispossession and Dissent is to be commended for combining oral histories and rich analytics to help us understand not only immigrant integration in Spain but also the importance of homeownership writ large.... Dispossession and Dissent enhances our knowledge of housing and its consequences for immigrant integration."—Peter Catron, American Journal of SociologyTable of Contents1. Immigration, Homeownership, and Activism 2. Mortgaged Inclusion 3. Homeownership's Urbanism 4. Citizen Homeowner 5. Debt Sentences 6. Immigrant Capital 7. Waking the Civil Dead 8. Imagining Urban Futures in the Age of Uncertainty

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Book SynopsisSince the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe. Housing in particular has become increasingly precarious. In response, many movements now contest the long-held promises and established terms of the private ownership of housing. Immigrant activism has played an important, if understudied, role in such struggles over collective consumption. In Dispossession and Dissent, Sophie Gonick examines the intersection of homeownership and immigrant activism through an analysis of Spain's anti-evictions movement, now a hallmark for housing struggles across the globe. Madrid was the crucible for Spain's urban planning and policy, its millennial economic boom (1998–2008), and its more recent mobilizations in response to crisis. During the boom, the city also experienced rapid, unprecedented immigration. Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, Gonick uncovers the city's histories of homeownership and immigration to demonstrate the pivotal role of Andean immigrants within this movement, as the first to contest dispossession from mortgage-related foreclosures and evictions. Consequently, they forged a potent politics of dissent, which drew upon migratory experiences and indigenous traditions of activism to contest foreclosures and evictions.Trade Review"In this beautifully crafted ethnography, Sophie Gonick reveals the dark side of speculative homeownership and the startling vibrancy and camaraderie of immigrant-led urban activism. A wonderful treatise on these turbulent yet hopeful times."—Michael Goldman, author of Imperial Nature"Gonick offers a counter-narrative to familiar accounts that emphasize rising nativism and xenophobia amid segments of the working classes in southern Europe. There are important lessons here for how broad-based progressive alliances can form in the face of collapsing property markets and accumulation by dispossession."—Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago"Dispossession and Dissent is to be commended for combining oral histories and rich analytics to help us understand not only immigrant integration in Spain but also the importance of homeownership writ large.... Dispossession and Dissent enhances our knowledge of housing and its consequences for immigrant integration."—Peter Catron, American Journal of SociologyTable of Contents1. Immigration, Homeownership, and Activism 2. Mortgaged Inclusion 3. Homeownership's Urbanism 4. Citizen Homeowner 5. Debt Sentences 6. Immigrant Capital 7. Waking the Civil Dead 8. Imagining Urban Futures in the Age of Uncertainty

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Book SynopsisThe gaping holes in the U.S. and Canadian social safety nets mean that many people live in a state of financial precarity that can instantly become untenable in the face of another big expense, such as a large medical bill or damaged property. Historically, people have turned to their communities, neighbors, families, and loved ones for help in these situations. Today, asking for money on the internet through crowdfunding is among the most popular ways of seeking and donating to charity, and for-profit enterprises have realized that tapping into this instinct for helping is extremely good business. GoFailMe reveals how these sites, most notably GoFundMe, enjoy massive revenue, without providing the help they promise. They fail most of their users while putting them through an emotional rollercoaster and using sneaky tactics to obscure that reality. With unprecedented access to interviews, surveys, and hundreds of thousands of crowdfunding cases across North America, Erik Schneiderhan and Martin Lukk take on pressing questions with critical insight: When do we turn to others for help? Who succeeds and who fails in the digital crowd? Whom do these sites benefit? Ultimately, the failure of GoFundMe and others is emblematic of the inability of the for-profit sector and Big Tech to engineer an end to social inequality. Trade Review"Cancer, emergency, dreams at risk. Through new technologies of crowdfunding, these crises elicit help from friends, family and strangers. While admirable, this extended altruism often disappoints and fails to meet the gaps in a weakening social safety net. Incisive, rigorously original, and accessible, GoFailMe illuminates how a new industry is reshaping social solidarity."—Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago"Crowdfunding has become an important part of contemporary philanthropy, providing opportunities for ethical expression as well as needed transfers of funds. Like social media, it offers individuals a chance to engage directly in providing help, whether to friends or to strangers, without relying on traditional institutions. In this first major study of digital philanthropy, Schneiderhan and Lukk provide narratives showing what this means for the donors and beneficiaries, and also what reveals about charity in a shifting social context."—Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University"In their compelling, well-documented book, [Schneiderhan and Lukk] examine thousands of crowdsourcing cases across Canada and the U.S. on websites like GoFundMe. Their book shows that sites like these often fail users and are rife with inequities that closely parallel the social problems that plague societies today.... For readers who are contemplating either setting up a crowdsourcing site or donating to one."—Ellen Gilbert, Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Rise of Digital Crowdfunding Chapter 2: A Well of Sadness Chapter 3: A Very Daunting Task Chapter 4: Queen for A Day? Chapter 5: What to Know Better, Do Better, Help Better

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Book SynopsisFamilies and Children Living in Poverty explores the factors that contribute to the existence of poverty, as well as the social, developmental, and environmental ramifications of poverty. Through scholarly studies, case studies, historical events, and contemporary happenings, readers examine the connections between poverty and family-related challenges, including adverse childhood experiences, lack of a living wage, health disparities, social exclusion, and homelessness. Part I of the text explores poverty and social class inequality. The chapters discuss how poverty is measured in the United States, the role of capitalism in poverty, global health challenges, and the economic effects of conflict. In Part II, students learn about health disparities caused by chronic stress, food insecurity, lack of dental health, exposure to pollutants, and human trafficking, as well as the wide-spread implications of adverse childhood experiences. Part III focuses on housing instability, homelessness, and social exclusion. The final part illuminates various programs and resources available for impoverished families and children, and demonstrates how individuals, researchers, and institutions can create lasting positive change within affected communities.Presenting valuable research and various theoretical frameworks through which to examine poverty, Families and Children Living in Poverty is an ideal text for courses in human development, family studies, and other social sciences. It is also an exemplary resource for helping professionals who support the care and well-being of children and families.

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Book SynopsisWide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human Over the past decade, digital media has expanded exponentially, becoming an essential part of daily life. The stimulating essays and experimental compositions in The User Unconscious delve into the ways digital media and computational technologies fundamentally affect our sense of self and the world we live in, from both human and other-than-human perspectives.Critical theorist Patricia Ticineto Clough’s provocative essays center around the motif of the “user unconscious” to advance the challenging thesis that that we are both human and other-than-human: we now live, think, and dream within multiple layers of computational networks that are constantly present, radically transforming subjectivity, sociality, and unconscious processes.Drawing together rising strains of philosophy, critical theory, and media studies, as well as the political, social, and economic transformations that are shaping the twenty-first-century world, The User Unconscious points toward emergent crises and potentialities in both human subjectivity and sociality. Moving from affect to data, Clough forces us to see that digital media and computational technologies are not merely controlling us—they have already altered what it means to be human.Trade Review"The essays collected in The User Unconscious, each in its own way and together, are groundbreaking in that they brilliantly pose problems of affect, media, and measure as questions of memory, embodiment, and subjectivation in the datalogical era. Drawing on the best in critical theory, philosophy, and media studies, Patricia Ticineto Clough shows us how to intervene more effectively in the present configuration of digital media and computational technologies in the afterward of neoliberalism and biopolitics."—Amit S. Rai, Queen Mary, University of London"Weaving together the analytical and the lyrical threads of her collective work, Patricia Ticineto Clough takes us to the originary technicity of an unconscious that starts experimenting with the nonhuman modalities of affect, media, and datalogics. These critical and poetic writings about the auto-affective reconfigurations of information governance are a compelling excursus into the political sensibilities for thinking technology today."—Luciana Parisi, Goldsmiths University of London"This is a gorgeous collection of essays and poems from one of our finest thinkers of technology, affect, and biopolitics. Patricia Ticineto Clough pushes thought to new edges, always coercing the bounds between what can be known, not-known, and un-known."—Jasbir Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"If the most important part of a text on affect is the capacities it opens up for humans, then Clough is more than successful. By integrating personal narrative and poetry, she made this book more digestible and more human, which is ultimately the point."—Hyperrhiz"The User Unconscious is extremely efficient in making syntheses, tweaks, and combinations of theories in the field."—AfterimageTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionNotes towards A Theory of Affect-ItselfPatricia Ticineto Clough, Greg Goldberg, Rachel Schiff, Aaron Weeks, and Craig WillseWar by Other Means: What Difference Do(es) the Graphic(s) Make?Praying and Playing to the Beat of a Child’s Metronome Gendered Security/National Security: Political Branding and Population RacismPatricia Ticineto Clough and Craig WillseMy Mother’s Scream Feminist Theory: Bodies, Science, and TechnologyA Dream of Falling: Philosophy and Family Violence The Datalogical Turn Patricia Ticineto Clough, Karen Gregory, Benjamin Haber, R. Joshua ScannellThe Object’s Affects: The Rosary Rethinking Race, Calculation, Quantification and Measure And They Were DancingEcstatic Corona: From Ethnography to PerformanceAcknowledgmentsNotesPrevious PublicationsIndex

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Book SynopsisPolitics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars for a new ageA long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away—way back in the twenty-first century’s first decade—Star Wars seemed finished. Then in 2012 George Lucas shocked the entertainment world by selling the franchise, along with Lucasfilm, to Disney. This is the story of how, over the next five years, Star Wars went from near-certain extinction to what Wired magazine would call “the forever franchise,” with more films in the works than its first four decades had produced. Focusing on The Force Awakens (2015), Rogue One (2016), The Last Jedi (2017), and the television series Rebels (2014–18), Dan Golding explores the significance of pop culture nostalgia in overcoming the skepticism, if not downright hostility, that greeted the Star Wars relaunch. At the same time he shows how Disney, even as it tapped a backward-looking obsession, was nonetheless creating genuinely new and contemporary entries in the Star Wars universe.A host of cultural factors and forces propelled the Disney-engineered Star Wars renaissance, and all figure in Golding’s deeply informed analysis: from John Williams’s music in The Force Awakens to Peter Cushing’s CGI face in Rogue One, to Carrie Fisher’s passing, to the rapidly changing audience demographic. Star Wars after Lucas delves into the various responses and political uses of the new Star Wars in a wider context, as in reaction videos on YouTube and hate-filled, misogynistic online rants. In its granular textual readings, broad cultural scope, and insights into the complexities of the multimedia galaxy, this book is as entertaining as it is enlightening, an apt reflection of the enduring power of the Star Wars franchise.Trade Review"Star Wars is almost too big a subject for any one mind to grasp, but Dan Golding’s look at how the franchise maintains its nostalgic glow in the Disney era stays on target, excavating the unique combination of art and commerce that holds Star Wars together."—Adam Rogers, senior tech correspondent at Insider"Star Wars after Lucas is a useful and welcome review of the past four decades of Star Wars, as well as the strategies that corporations are increasingly adopting in order to perpetuate franchises. In particular, Dan Golding aptly describes Lucasfilm's struggles to balance nostalgic appeals with a growing commitment to diversity and inclusivity."—A. D. Jameson, author of I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture"Dan Golding’s wonderful book strikes a perfect balance between criticism and knowledgeable fandom. Approaching Disney-era Star Wars, his writing provides important insights into the workings of nostalgia culture, transmedia storytelling, and the power of transnational media industries in the age of global capitalism. His readings of individual Star Wars texts are thoughtful, nuanced, and theoretically informed, while at the same time relating them back to the complexities of branding, cross-platform marketing, and global entertainment franchising. Star Wars after Lucas is essential reading for anyone with an interest in media franchising, globalization, media industries, and entertainment in the Disney era."—Dan Hassler-Forest, coeditor of Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling"Star Wars after Lucas is a spirited and often convincing defense of the saga’s ‘complex and multifaceted’ content. "—Shepherd Express"Anyone fascinated by the post-George Lucas Star Wars universe will find Dan Golding’s Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy an essential read. Focusing on The Force Awakens, Rogue One, The Last Jedi, and Star Wars Rebels, Golding crafts an insightful, smart analysis."—The Film Stage"Feminist progressives see in the galaxy a courageous human rights defense that stands for inclusivity, community, and individuality. Star Wars after Lucas demonstrates thoroughly and importantly how the legacy franchise has maintained its reflective glow in the Disney era."—CHOICE"Golding is insightful on the politics of Star Wars. “Despite its political malleability,” he writes, “Star Wars has, for better or worse, gained a general whiff of cultural conservatism.” That stems, he suggests, from the fact that the retro escapism of the original trilogy seemed of a piece with the political winds that gave two White House terms to a former actor who struck a genial, paternal mien while enacting brutally regressive policies."—The Tangential"Golding has managed to provide a book that is clear in its intentions of examining the Star Wars franchise in the years since it made the transition to a giant media conglomerate. The significance of nostalgia is interwoven throughout and provides a detailed yet broad exploration into how it has both impacted and been implemented into the long-running franchise."—Leonardo Reviews"When Golding surrounds the new Star Wars media with the pop culture, political, and digital factors that shaped it, it’s clear to readers that Star Wars is not a fluke, nor an outlier in modern American media: it’s the center of it. Scholars of contemporary film and media studies or any fan of the iconic franchise will enjoy this look into how a down and out narrative circled back to win the hearts of America once again."—CBQ: Communication Booknotes Quarterly"Golding’s book both succeeds as an investigation of Star Wars in the Disney era and performs the limitations such investigations necessarily entail, it provides a useful and necessary account of contemporary, popular entertainment."—SFRA ReviewTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Star Wars and the History of Nostalgia1. Before the Empire: The Politics of George Lucas and the Critique of the Original Trilogy2. It Calls to You: Selling Star Wars in 20153. Look How Old You’ve Become: The Force Awakens as Legacy Film4. An Awakening: Diversity as the Politics of The Force Awakens5. Just Like Old Times?: Music, Seriality, and the Fugue of The Force Awakens6. You Have to Start Somewhere: Contrasting Nostalgias in The Force Awakens and Rogue One7. You Think Anybody’s Listening?: Fighting Fascism in Rogue One and Rebels8. I’ve Always Hated Watching You Leave: Death, Han Solo, and Carrie Fisher9. I Will Finish What You Started: Star Wars from The Last Jedi and Beyond

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanitiesIn recent years, the digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about inclusivity and scope—but what change will these conversations ultimately bring about? Can the digital humanities complicate the basic assumptions of tech culture, or will this body of scholarship and practices simply reinforce preexisting biases? Bodies of Information addresses this crucial question by assembling a varied group of leading voices, showcasing feminist contributions to a panoply of topics, including ubiquitous computing, game studies, new materialisms, and cultural phenomena like hashtag activism, hacktivism, and campaigns against online misogyny.Taking intersectional feminism as the starting point for doing digital humanities, Bodies of Information is diverse in discipline, identity, location, and method. Helpfully organized around keywords of materiality, values, embodiment, affect, labor, and situatedness, this comprehensive volume is ideal for classrooms. And with its multiplicity of viewpoints and arguments, it’s also an important addition to the evolving conversations around one of the fastest growing fields in the academy.Contributors: Babalola Titilola Aiyegbusi, U of Lethbridge; Moya Bailey, Northeastern U; Bridget Blodgett, U of Baltimore; Barbara Bordalejo, KU Leuven; Jason Boyd, Ryerson U; Christina Boyles, Trinity College; Susan Brown, U of Guelph; Lisa Brundage, CUNY; micha cárdenas, U of Washington Bothell; Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown U; Danielle Cole; Beth Coleman, U of Waterloo; T. L. Cowan, U of Toronto; Constance Crompton, U of Ottawa; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M; Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara, U of Colorado Boulder; Julia Flanders, Northeastern U Library; Sandra Gabriele, Concordia U; Brian Getnick; Karen Gregory, U of Edinburgh; Alison Hedley, Ryerson U; Kathryn Holland, MacEwan U; James Howe, Rutgers U; Jeana Jorgensen, Indiana U; Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Dorothy Kim, Vassar College; Kimberly Knight, U of Texas, Dallas; Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson U; Sharon M. Leon, Michigan State; Izetta Autumn Mobley, U of Maryland; Padmini Ray Murray, Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; Veronica Paredes, U of Illinois; Roopika Risam, Salem State; Bonnie Ruberg, U of California, Irvine; Laila Shereen Sakr (VJ Um Amel), U of California, Santa Barbara; Anastasia Salter, U of Central Florida; Michelle Schwartz, Ryerson U; Emily Sherwood, U of Rochester; Deb Verhoeven, U of Technology, Sydney; Scott B. Weingart, Carnegie Mellon U.

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Book SynopsisMuch of the literature that addresses youth unemployment has been framed within an economic paradigm and much less attention has been focused on the role played by country-specific value orientations in structuring economic activity. Drawing on extensive fieldwork research and the work of experts in Europe and the United States, this book provides a culturally nuanced analysis of key issues relating to youth unemployment. Examining the causes and consequences of youth unemployment, it explores ways forward to promote economic self-sufficiency. This pioneering work offers invaluable tailored policy solutions to tackle one of today’s most important socioeconomic issues.Table of Contents1. Introduction ~ Radha Jagannathan 2. Acceptable Jobs and the Epidemic of Youth Unemployment in Southern Italy ~ Maurizio Caserta, Livio Ferrante, Radha Jagannathan and Simona Monteleone 3. No Jobs, No Hope: The Future of Youth Employment in Spain ~ José L. Arco-Tirado, Francisco D. Fernández-Martín and Radha Jagannathan 4. Dirigisme Pour L’Ordinaire: Vocational Training in 21st Century France ~ Michael J. Camasso, Guillaume Moissonnier and Radha Jagannathan 5. Educating Youth for Future Unemployment in Greece ~ Radha Jagannathan and Ioanna Tsoulou 6. Labor Market Policies to Fight Youth Unemployment in Portugal: Between Statism and Experimentalism ~ Paulo Marques and Pedro Videira 7. Adaptability of the German Vocational Model to Mediterranean Countries ~ Jale Tosun, Julia Weiss, Alexa Meyer-Hamme and Marcel Katzlinger 8. US Style Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to Youth Employment: Exporting the Promise ~ Radha Jagannathan and Michael J. Camasso 9. Grading the Implementation Prospects: Where Do We Go from Here? ~ Radha Jagannathan

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Book SynopsisIn the past, youth has been seen as a transition into the labour market, but today young people’s identities are increasingly wrapped up in their value as workers. In this book, young people describe the meaning of work in their own words. Drawing on these narratives, the author reveals how their identities are intertwined with the dynamics of labour and value in post-Fordist capitalism and how social inequalities are manifested through the practices and ethics that young people draw upon to cultivate an economically productive self. Illuminating the rapidly changing social conditions that mould youth identities, this book represents a paradigm shift in our understanding of youth and work.Table of ContentsYoung People, Work and Society: New Terrain Youth in the New Economy: The Post-Fordist Self Passionate Subjects and the Middle-Class Self at Work Subjects of Achievement: Social Mobility, Competence and Aspiration Socially Appropriate and Credentialled: The Struggle for the Working Self Conclusion: Young People in the Work Society Methodological Afterword

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Book SynopsisIn the past, youth has been seen as a transition into the labour market, but today young people’s identities are increasingly wrapped up in their value as workers. In this book, young people describe the meaning of work in their own words. Drawing on these narratives, the author reveals how their identities are intertwined with the dynamics of labour and value in post-Fordist capitalism and how social inequalities are manifested through the practices and ethics that young people draw upon to cultivate an economically productive self. Illuminating the rapidly changing social conditions that mould youth identities, this book represents a paradigm shift in our understanding of youth and work.Table of ContentsYoung People, Work and Society: New Terrain Youth in the New Economy: The Post-Fordist Self Passionate Subjects and the Middle-Class Self at Work Subjects of Achievement: Social Mobility, Competence and Aspiration Socially Appropriate and Credentialled: The Struggle for the Working Self Conclusion: Young People in the Work Society Methodological Afterword

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Freedom of religion and belief is crucial to any sustainable development process, yet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pay little attention to religious inequalities. This book offers a comprehensive overview of how efforts to achieve SDGs can be enhanced by paying greater attention to freedom of religion and belief. In particular, it illustrates how poverty is often a direct result of religious prejudice and how religious identity can shape a person’s job prospects, their children’s education and the quality of public services they receive. Drawing on evidence from Asia, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, the book foregrounds the lived experiences of marginalized communities as well as researchers and non-state actors.Table of Contents1. Confronting Poverty, Prejudice and Religious Inequality: Ensuring No One Is Left Behind – Mariz Tadros, Philip Mader and Kathryn Cheeseman Part 1: Health and Wellbeing 2. The Intersection of Religion With the Health and Wellbeing SDG – Jill Olivier 3. How the Pandemic Impacted Religious Minorities in Iraq, and How Inclusive Journalism Helped – Salam Omer 4. Religion and Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccination: The Trust Deficit – Claire Thomas, Mayya Kelova and Albashir Mohamed 5. Religious Inequality and Health: Taking the Pulse Through a Global Review of the Literature – Ghazala Mir 6. Health and Wellbeing Alongside Belief Systems at the Patient Care Coalface: How Does Policy Fit in? – Somnath Mukhopadhyay and Haitham Abul-Eis Part 2: Education 7. Religion, Religiosity and Educational Progress – Elizabeth M. King 8. Training Iraqi Teachers To Become Effective Promoters of FoRB Principles in Primary Education – Haidar Lapcha and Yusra Mahdi 9. Advancing Freedom of Religion or Belief Through Religiously Inclusive Education – Knox Thames Part 3: Gender 10. Interrogating the Gender and Religious Equality Nexus – Mariz Tadros 11. Dire Conditions for Hazara Shia Pilgrims During COVID-19 Quarantine in Pakistan – Sadiqa Sultan 12. The ‘Messy’ World of Women and Religious Inequality – Kate Ward 13. Empty Chairs: FoRB’s Gender Problem – Andrea Mari and Kathryn Cheeseman Part 4: Water and Sanitation 14. Freedom of Religion or Belief, and Access to Safe Water – Kate Bayliss 15. How Clean Drinking Water in Joseph Colony Addresses Religious Inequalities and SDGs – Ali Abbas Zaidi and Bariya Shah 16. Why Do Religious Minorities in Pakistan Receive Less Water? – Mary Gill and Asif Aqeel 17. Drinking Water, Sanitation and the Religion Paradox in India – Nitya Jacob Part 5: Infrastructure and the Economy 18. How Digital Discrimination Affects Sustainable Development for Religious and Ethnic Minorities – Kevin Hernandez and Becky Faith 19. Poverty, Prejudice and Technology – Nighat Dad and Shmyla Khan 20. Beyond the Rhetoric of Freedom: Religious Inequity in Nigeria – Chris Kwaja 21. Religious Identity-Based Inequality in the Labour Market: Policy Challenges in India – Surbhi Kesar and Rosa Abraham Part 6: Inequalities 22. Religious Inequality and Economic Opportunity: Implications for SDG10 – Simone Schotte 23. The Justice Gap: Religious Minorities, Discrimination and Accountability Challenges – Claire Thomas and Mary Gill 24. Disability and Religious Inequality Intertwined: Double Discrimination Against Deaf Jehovah’s Witnesses in Uzbekistan – Dilmurad Yusupov 25. What Is Distinctive About Religious Inequality? Challenges and Opportunities for Development Policy – Michael Woolcock Part 7: Cities and Communities 26. Religious Inequalities, Inclusive Cities and Sustainable Development – Francesca Giliberto 27. ISIS Attack on the Divinely Protected City of Mosul: The Assault of Terrorism on Diversity and Peace – Omar Mohammed 28. Renaming Places in India: Conjuring the Present by Exorcising a Past – Rachna Mehra 29. Urban Development for Religious Equality: The Case of Youhanabad in Pakistan – Amen Jaffer Part 8: Climate and Nature 30. Religious Inequality and Environmental Change – Shilpi Srivastava and Vinitha Bachina 31. Discrimination Against Minorities and Its Detrimental Effect on Biodiversity Conservation: Lessons From the Batwa ‘Pygmies’ Around Semuliki National Park, Western Uganda – Moses Muhumuza 32. A Wounded Landscape and the Right To Protest at the River Club Site – Rifqah Tifloen 33. Climate Justice for the Religiously Marginalised – Lyla Mehta Part 9: Peace and Justice 34. The Significance of Freedom of Religion or Belief for Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions – W. Cole Durham Jr. 35. Recovering From the Trauma of Insurgency in Northern Nigeria – Maji Peterx 36. Religion, Caste and Marginality: Reflections on the Indian Criminal Justice and Prison System – Devangana Kalita 37. Key Blindspots in Thinking Around Peacebuilding Policy Makers and Practitioners Need To Address – Katharine Thane Part 10: Partnership 38. Partnerships and Religious Inequality – Amro Hussain 39. The Need for Secular-Religious Engagement – Kishan Manocha 40. Co-Creation for Freedom of Religion or Belief – Mike Battcock 41. Promoting FoRB in Fragile Contexts: Emerging Lessons From CREID on Legitimacy – Mariz Tadros 42. Epilogue – Mariz Tadros, Philip Mader and Kathryn Cheeseman

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Book SynopsisTwo-thirds of the population of the world are poor, and their number is growing in the first as well as in the third world, despite billions of dollars of aid. The economic development policies of the last two decades, and the theory which gave rise to them, have been discredited. The rich are disillusioned, apprehensive or uninterested, while the poor are embittered and without hope, the victims and agents of ignorance, instability and environmental degradation. The need for radical rethinking is urgent: this book makes an important contribution towards that end. John Friedmann argues that poverty should be seen not merely in material terms, but as social, political and psychological powerlessness. He presents the case for an alternative development committed to empowering the poor in their own communities, and to mobilizing them for political participation on a wider scale. In contrast to centralized development policies devised and implemented at the national and international level, alternative development restores the initiative to those in need, on the grounds that unless people have an active role in directing their own destinies long-term progress will not be achieved. The author takes the household as the strategic starting-point - stressing its moral, political and economic potential - as a source of continuity and as a location for production. From this basis he propounds a politics of emancipation that would enable the disempowered poor to assert their rights. Empowerment provides a morally-informed theoretical framework for a development policy that meets the needs of its recipients rather than of its makers.Trade Review"This book is probably the most important contribution to the field of alternative development in the last ten years or so." Ignacy Sachs, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris "As an introduction into 'Alternative' development discourse, Friedman's work is definitely a valuable and timely addition." Community Development Journal "Friedmann's treatment of the subject of development here is highly innovative and should prove of interest to a broad range of planners, geographers, and others concerned with advancing an interdisciplinary perspective of development." Antipode "Interesting for any practitioner concerned with problems in the developing world, problems of local economy, and planning issues in the community." Journal Systems Practice "A worthy attempt to provide an alternative model to mainstream approaches to development. It is written in an accessible style, well punctuated with apt and interesting practical examples of alternative organisation." Capital and Class "Friedmann's work is a significant addition to the literature. It should be invaluable as a textbook for courses on development across disciplines." Development and ChangeTable of Contents1. Alternative Development: Its Origins and Moral Justification. 2. Trajectory: From Exclusion to Empowerment. 3. Rethinking the Economy: The Whole-Economy Model. 4. Rethinking Poverty: The (Dis)Empowerment Model. 5. Political Claims I: Inclusive Democracy and Appropriate Economic Growth. 6. Political Claims II: Gender Equality and Intergenerational Equity. 7. Practice: From Social to Political Power. Epilogue: Some Questions for Rich Countries. Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsis Hunger in History represents the culmination of two years' work in human hunger by the members of the World Hunger Program at Brown University. In bringing together original and specially commissioned articles by some of the world's leading authorities on this topic, Amartya Sen, David Herlihy, Peter Garnsey, among others, the editors have succeeded in providing a strong cross-disciplinary base for the study of hunger. The volume, which includes 16 papers, looks at the problem of hunger from the beginnings of human society, defining and redefining the problem in ancient society and again in early modern and then contemporary society, and ends with an essay by the editors on solutions to the contemporary problem of hunger.Trade Review"This comprehensive book attempts to document the prevalence, causes, and consequences of hunger throughout recorded history." Food and Nutrition Bulletin Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction:. 1. Toward Understanding Hunger: Sara Millman (University of Hawaii, Hilo) and Robert W. Kates (Brown University). Part II: Hunger in Prehistoric Societies:. 2. Global Climate and the Origins of Agriculture: Robley Matthews (Brown University), Douglas Anderson, Robert S. Chen, Thompson Webb. 3. Prehistoric Patters of Hunger: Mark Nathan Cohen (SUNY, Plattsburgh). Part III: Hunger in Complex Societies:. 4. Agricultural Intensification, Urbanization and Hierarchy: Lucile F. Newman (Brown University), Alan Boegehold, David Herlihy, Robert W. Kates, Kurt Raaflaub. 5. Response to Food Crisis in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Peter Garnsey (Cambridge University). 6. War, Food Shortages and Relief Measures in Early China: Robin D. S. Yates (Dartmouth College). 7. The Classic Maya: Billie Lee Turner II (Clark University). Part IV: Hunger in the Emerging World System: . 8. Colonialism, International Trade, and the Nation State: William Crossgrave (Brown University), David Egilman, Peter Heywood, Jeanne Kasperson, Ellen Messer, Albert Wessen. 9. Nutritional Status and Mortality in Eighteenth Century Europe: John D. Post (Northeaston University). 10. Food Supply in the Swiss Canton of Bern, 1847: Christian Pfister (Universitet Bern). Part V: Hunger in the Recent Past: . 11. Organization, Information and Entitlement in the Emerging Global Food System: Sara Millman (University of Hawaii), Stanley M. Aronson, Lina M. Fruzzetti, Marida Hollos, Rose Okello, Van Whiting, Jr. 12. Hunger and Poverty in China Since 1949: Carl Riskin (City University, New York and Columbia University). 13. World Nutritional Problems: Nevin Scrimshaw (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 14. Food Entitlement and Economic Chains: Amartya Sen (Harvard University). Part VI: Conclusion: . 15. On Ending Hunger: The Lessons of History: Sara Millman (University of Hawaii) and Robert W. Kates.

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Book SynopsisMaintains that poverty has become, to the peril of us all, an ordinary part of lifeTrade Review"This is a book written by a frustrated and angry man [who] spent nearly 20 years working as a volunteer in the Bread and Life soup kitchen.[it] is an attempt to make sense of that experience .. DiFazio does not have all the answers. But he asks the right questions and puts poverty and hardship back at the centre of discussion. He challenges us to face up to our responsibility to act. Inequality and low wages are key issues which have been ignored for too long-in Britain as in America." The Tribune "DiFazio has made a clear critique of current poverty theories, policies, and responses...this is a provocative and illuminating synthesis that urges students, scholars, researchers, advocates, activists, and policymakers to think and act outside our current poverty definitions, theories, and policies, the structure of our advocacy and helping organizations, and the overall national and global economy in which these are set." Contemporary Sociology "The book presents a cogent analysis of poverty gleaned in part from the author's work at St. John's Bread and Life soup kitchen in Brooklyn. His interviews, observations, and social analysis powerfully rebut those social theorists and politicians who argue that people are poor out of cultural or personal inferiority." - Socialism and Democracy "Ordinary Poverty is an astute book that stands out from most of the work that is published on poverty and anti-poverty activism. It is far better theoretically informed than most of that work and its dual emphasis...provides the likely demands for a rejuvenated anti-poverty movement headed by the poor." Labour/Le Travail "DiFazio offers an outraged exegesis of the exacerbation of poverty amid an economic boom that has increased the wealth of only the richest...His ethnographic contribution is strongest in his description of the travails of long-term social service provision in the late 1980s and into the 1990s." The American Journal of Sociology "This estimable book is at once an ethnographic account of the author's experiences from 1988 to 2001 as a volunteer field worker for the St. John's Bread and Life soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn... DiFazio's proposals for solving the problem of poverty in the United States are not new...but they acquire a fresh relevance... One of the strengths of this book is its vivid portraits of the people whose poverty has become 'ordinary' inasmuch as present-day capitalist America looks upon their existence as a normal part of the social fabric... Ordinary Poverty is an impassioned, politically engaged, intellectually challenging study of one of the central unresolved problems of American social and political life." Science & Society, April 2009

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Book SynopsisMaintains that poverty has become, to the peril of us all, an ordinary part of lifeTrade Review"This is a book written by a frustrated and angry man [who] spent nearly 20 years working as a volunteer in the Bread and Life soup kitchen.[it] is an attempt to make sense of that experience .. DiFazio does not have all the answers. But he asks the right questions and puts poverty and hardship back at the centre of discussion. He challenges us to face up to our responsibility to act. Inequality and low wages are key issues which have been ignored for too long-in Britain as in America." The Tribune "DiFazio has made a clear critique of current poverty theories, policies, and responses...this is a provocative and illuminating synthesis that urges students, scholars, researchers, advocates, activists, and policymakers to think and act outside our current poverty definitions, theories, and policies, the structure of our advocacy and helping organizations, and the overall national and global economy in which these are set." Contemporary Sociology "The book presents a cogent analysis of poverty gleaned in part from the author's work at St. John's Bread and Life soup kitchen in Brooklyn. His interviews, observations, and social analysis powerfully rebut those social theorists and politicians who argue that people are poor out of cultural or personal inferiority." - Socialism and Democracy "Ordinary Poverty is an astute book that stands out from most of the work that is published on poverty and anti-poverty activism. It is far better theoretically informed than most of that work and its dual emphasis...provides the likely demands for a rejuvenated anti-poverty movement headed by the poor." Labour/Le Travail "DiFazio offers an outraged exegesis of the exacerbation of poverty amid an economic boom that has increased the wealth of only the richest...His ethnographic contribution is strongest in his description of the travails of long-term social service provision in the late 1980s and into the 1990s." The American Journal of Sociology "This estimable book is at once an ethnographic account of the author's experiences from 1988 to 2001 as a volunteer field worker for the St. John's Bread and Life soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn... DiFazio's proposals for solving the problem of poverty in the United States are not new...but they acquire a fresh relevance... One of the strengths of this book is its vivid portraits of the people whose poverty has become 'ordinary' inasmuch as present-day capitalist America looks upon their existence as a normal part of the social fabric... Ordinary Poverty is an impassioned, politically engaged, intellectually challenging study of one of the central unresolved problems of American social and political life." Science & Society, April 2009

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Book SynopsisWoody Klein explores the anti-poverty programsor lack thereofduring each successive administration, explaining how and why no president, thus far, has been able to end poverty. American Poverty urges the president and Congress to work together to finally eradicate poverty in America.

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Book SynopsisInternational Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that primarily focus on empowering students (children, adolescents, and young adults) from diverse current circumstances and historic beliefs and traditions to become non-exploited/non-exploitive contributing members of the 21st century. The series draws on the research and innovative practices of investigators, academics, and community organizers around the globe that have contributed to the evidence base for developing sound educational policies, practices, and programs that optimize all students' potential. Each volume includes multidisciplinary theory, research, and practices that provide an enriched understanding of the drivers of human potential via education to assist others in exploring, adapting, and replicating innovative strategies that enable ALL students to realize their full potential. Chapters in this volume are drawn from a wide range of countries including: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Georgia, Haiti, India, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, Slovenia, Tanzania and The United States all addressing issues of educational inequity, economic constraint, class bias and the links between education, poverty and social status.The individual chapters provide examples of theory, research, and practice that collectively present a lively, informative, cross-perspective, international conversation highlighting the significant gross economic and social injustices that abound in a wide variety of educational contexts around the world while spotlighting important, inspirational, and innovative remedies. Taken together, the chapter’s advance our understanding of best practices in the education of economically disadvantaged and socially marginalized populations while collectively rejecting institutional policies and traditional practices that reinforce the roots of economic and social discrimination.Chapter authors, utilize a range of methodologies including empirical research, historical reviews, case studies and personal reflections to demonstrate that poverty and class status are socio-political conditions, rather than individual identities. In addition, that education is an absolute human right and a powerful mechanism to promote individual, national, and international upward social and economic mobility, national stability and citizen wellbeing.

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Book SynopsisInternational Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that primarily focus on empowering students (children, adolescents, and young adults) from diverse current circumstances and historic beliefs and traditions to become non-exploited/non-exploitive contributing members of the 21st century. The series draws on the research and innovative practices of investigators, academics, and community organizers around the globe that have contributed to the evidence base for developing sound educational policies, practices, and programs that optimize all students' potential. Each volume includes multidisciplinary theory, research, and practices that provide an enriched understanding of the drivers of human potential via education to assist others in exploring, adapting, and replicating innovative strategies that enable ALL students to realize their full potential. Chapters in this volume are drawn from a wide range of countries including: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Georgia, Haiti, India, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, Slovenia, Tanzania and The United States all addressing issues of educational inequity, economic constraint, class bias and the links between education, poverty and social status.The individual chapters provide examples of theory, research, and practice that collectively present a lively, informative, cross-perspective, international conversation highlighting the significant gross economic and social injustices that abound in a wide variety of educational contexts around the world while spotlighting important, inspirational, and innovative remedies. Taken together, the chapter’s advance our understanding of best practices in the education of economically disadvantaged and socially marginalized populations while collectively rejecting institutional policies and traditional practices that reinforce the roots of economic and social discrimination.Chapter authors, utilize a range of methodologies including empirical research, historical reviews, case studies and personal reflections to demonstrate that poverty and class status are socio-political conditions, rather than individual identities. In addition, that education is an absolute human right and a powerful mechanism to promote individual, national, and international upward social and economic mobility, national stability and citizen wellbeing.

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Book SynopsisSince the 9/11 attacks on U.S. soil, American citizenship has been redefined by the visual images associated with the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Rebecca A. Adelman contends that, in viewing images such as security footage of the 9/11 hijackers, film portrayals of the attacks and subsequent wars, memorials commemorating the attacks, and even graphics associated with increased security in airports, American citizens have been recast as militarised spectators, brought together through the production, circulation, and consumption of these visual artifacts. Beyond the Checkpoint reveals that the visual is essential to the prosecution of the GWOT domestically and abroad, and that it functions as a crucial mechanism in the ongoing formation of the U.S. state itself and an essential component of contemporary American citizenship.Tracing the connections between citizenship and spectatorship, and moving beyond the close reading of visual representations, this book focuses on the institutions and actors that create, monitor, and regulate the visual landscape of the GWOT. Adelman looks around and through common images to follow the complex patterns of practise by which institutions and audiences engage them in various contexts. In the process, she proposes a new methodology for studying visual cultures of conflict, and related phenomena like violence, terror, and suffering that are notoriously difficult to represent.Attending to previously unanalysed dimensions of this conflict, this book illustrates the complexity of GWOT visual culture and the variegated experiences of citizenship that result as Americans navigate this terrain.

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Book SynopsisAs jobs disappear and wages flat-line, paid work is an increasingly fragile and unattainable basis for dignified life. This predicament, deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic, is sparking urgent debates about alternatives such as a universal basic income (UBI). Highly topical and distinctive in its approach, In the Balance is the most rounded and up-to-date examination yet of the need and prospects for a UBI in a global South setting such as South Africa.Hein Marais casts the debate about a UBI in the wider context of the dispossessing pressures of capitalism and the onrushing turmoil of global warming, pandemics and social upheaval. Marais surveys the meaning, history and appeal of a UBI before even-handedly weighing the case for and against such an intervention. The book explores the vexing questions a UBI raises about the relationship of paid work to social rights, about prevailing notions of entitlement and dependency, and the role of the state in contemporary capitalism.Along with cost estimates for different versions of a basic income in South Africa, it discusses financing options and lays out the social, economic and political implications. This incisive new book advances both our theoretical and practical understanding of the prospects for a UBI.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The crisis of waged work Chapter 2 Behind the idea of a universal basic income Chapter 3 The attractions of a universal basic income Chapter 4 Testing the arguments against Chapter 5 Financing a universal basic income Chapter 6 The politics and economics of a universal basic income Chapter 7 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis'The alleviation of poverty and the protection of the environment are both critical challenges for the vindication of basic human rights for all of humankind. This relationship is however not necessarily an easy one. While there is an inextricable link between poverty and the degradation of the environment, a sophisticated analysis of a problem needs to deal with those cases where the need to increase economic opportunity for poor communities may appear to conflict with fragile ecosystems or the preservation of traditional practices. This collection provides the most sustained engagement with these problems. Drawing on the expertise of a range of distinguished authors, this book presents the reader with an integrated global engagement with these problems. In doing so, it represents a landmark effort towards the creation of a coherent literature to deal with one of humankind's most pressing challenges.'- Dennis Davis, Judge of the High Court, South Africa This timely book explores the complex relationship between the alleviation of poverty and the protection of the environment. There is every reason to believe that these issues are in many ways interdependent. However this book demonstrates that there are situations where alleviation of poverty and the protection of the environment appear to be in a fraught relationship. The contributing authors illustrate that the role played by law in this relationship, whether at the international or national level, will vary depending on the situation and will be more successful at pursuing environmental justice in some cases than in others. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to academics and students in environmental law and other environmental disciplines, environmental policy makers and NGOs interested in issues of poverty, environment and indigenous peoples. Contributors: C.D. Aceves-Avila, D. Behn, K. Bubna-Litic, M.A. Cohen, E. Couzens, J.J. Gonzalez Marquez, S. Gruber, O.F. Jauregui, M. Kidd, Y. Le Bouthillier, P. Martin, A. Mumma, L.C. Paddock, C.G. Pring, G.W. Pring, S. Sabzwari, D.N. Scott, D. Shelton, S.L. SmithTrade ReviewThe complex, uneven and challenging relationships between poverty alleviation and environmental regulation are impossible to trace in a single book but this collection brings a carefully selected set of policy-relevant, context-responsive, practical legal analyses to bear in a fresh examination of the present and future challenges involved. This is a timely contribution in the search for regulatory responses that alleviate rather than exacerbate the myriad forms of adaptation apartheid now so painfully evident in the relationship between poverty, injustice and environmental degradation. - Anna Grear, University of Waikato, New Zealand The subject of poverty cannot be ignored by environmentalists as the poor are the most affected by the diverse impacts of environmental degradation and climate change such as on water, natural resources and cultural heritage sites. In addition, slum dwellings exacerbate the plight of the poor. The book is a collection of diverse topics by renowned environmental legal experts which deal with the relationship between the alleviation of poverty and the protection of the environment. Each writer addresses the challenges raised in various issues and recommends solutions which range from linking with human rights, the need for public participation, the role of environmental courts and other mechanisms. - --Koh Kheng-Lian, National University of SingaporeTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction PART I: LINKAGES BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS, THE ENVIRONMENT AND POVERTY 2. Using Law and Equity for the Poor and the Environment Dinah Shelton 3. The Right of Access to Water in South Africa Michael Kidd PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND POVERTY: WHAT IS AT STAKE FOR ABORIGINAL PEOPLES? 4. Climate Change Impacts on the Poor – a Case-study of Australia’s Indigenous Population and the Impact of Australia’s Response on this Population Karen Bubna-Litic 5. The Quest for Environmental Justice on a Canadian Aboriginal Reserve Sidra Sabzwari and Dayna Nadine Scott 6. Whaling and Dealing: Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling, Politics and Poverty Ed Couzens PART III: THE NEED FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES TO COMBAT POVERTY 7. The Role of Public Engagement in Achieving Environmental Justice LeRoy C. (Lee) Paddock 8. The Right of Access to Information as a Tool for Environmental Protection and Poverty Eradication in Mexico Carla D. Aceves-Ávila PART IV: STATES’ APPROACHES TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND POVERTY 9. Embedding Social Justice in the Design of Environmental Regulation Paul Martin 10. Planning and Environment in Mexico City’s Metropolitan Zone: Trying to Defeat Poverty Miriam Alfie Cohen and Oscar Flores Jáuregui PART V: THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL COURTS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION 11. The ‘Greening’ of Justice: Will it Help the Poor? George W. (Rock) Pring and Catherine G. (Kitty) Pring 12. The Resolution of Urban Housing Development Disputes as a Mechanism for Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study of Kenya’s National Environment Tribunal Albert Mumma PART VI: GLOBAL CHALLENGES: INTERNATIONAL MECHANISMS TO ADDRESS POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION 13. Linking Climate Change Mitigation and Poverty Reduction: Continued Reform of the Clean Development Mechanism in the Post-Kyoto Era to Promote Sustainable Energy Development on the African Continent Daniel Behn 14. Poverty and the Loss of Cultural Heritage Sites Stefan Gruber 15. Chartering Sustainable Transnational Corporations Susan Lea Smith Index

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Book Synopsis'The alleviation of poverty and the protection of the environment are both critical challenges for the vindication of basic human rights for all of humankind. This relationship is however not necessarily an easy one. While there is an inextricable link between poverty and the degradation of the environment, a sophisticated analysis of a problem needs to deal with those cases where the need to increase economic opportunity for poor communities may appear to conflict with fragile ecosystems or the preservation of traditional practices. This collection provides the most sustained engagement with these problems. Drawing on the expertise of a range of distinguished authors, this book presents the reader with an integrated global engagement with these problems. In doing so, it represents a landmark effort towards the creation of a coherent literature to deal with one of humankind's most pressing challenges.'- Dennis Davis, Judge of the High Court, South Africa This timely book explores the complex relationship between the alleviation of poverty and the protection of the environment. There is every reason to believe that these issues are in many ways interdependent. However this book demonstrates that there are situations where alleviation of poverty and the protection of the environment appear to be in a fraught relationship. The contributing authors illustrate that the role played by law in this relationship, whether at the international or national level, will vary depending on the situation and will be more successful at pursuing environmental justice in some cases than in others. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to academics and students in environmental law and other environmental disciplines, environmental policy makers and NGOs interested in issues of poverty, environment and indigenous peoples. Contributors: C.D. Aceves-Avila, D. Behn, K. Bubna-Litic, M.A. Cohen, E. Couzens, J.J. Gonzalez Marquez, S. Gruber, O.F. Jauregui, M. Kidd, Y. Le Bouthillier, P. Martin, A. Mumma, L.C. Paddock, C.G. Pring, G.W. Pring, S. Sabzwari, D.N. Scott, D. Shelton, S.L. SmithTrade ReviewThe complex, uneven and challenging relationships between poverty alleviation and environmental regulation are impossible to trace in a single book but this collection brings a carefully selected set of policy-relevant, context-responsive, practical legal analyses to bear in a fresh examination of the present and future challenges involved. This is a timely contribution in the search for regulatory responses that alleviate rather than exacerbate the myriad forms of adaptation apartheid now so painfully evident in the relationship between poverty, injustice and environmental degradation. - Anna Grear, University of Waikato, New Zealand The subject of poverty cannot be ignored by environmentalists as the poor are the most affected by the diverse impacts of environmental degradation and climate change such as on water, natural resources and cultural heritage sites. In addition, slum dwellings exacerbate the plight of the poor. The book is a collection of diverse topics by renowned environmental legal experts which deal with the relationship between the alleviation of poverty and the protection of the environment. Each writer addresses the challenges raised in various issues and recommends solutions which range from linking with human rights, the need for public participation, the role of environmental courts and other mechanisms. - --Koh Kheng-Lian, National University of SingaporeTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction PART I: LINKAGES BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS, THE ENVIRONMENT AND POVERTY 2. Using Law and Equity for the Poor and the Environment Dinah Shelton 3. The Right of Access to Water in South Africa Michael Kidd PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND POVERTY: WHAT IS AT STAKE FOR ABORIGINAL PEOPLES? 4. Climate Change Impacts on the Poor – a Case-study of Australia’s Indigenous Population and the Impact of Australia’s Response on this Population Karen Bubna-Litic 5. The Quest for Environmental Justice on a Canadian Aboriginal Reserve Sidra Sabzwari and Dayna Nadine Scott 6. Whaling and Dealing: Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling, Politics and Poverty Ed Couzens PART III: THE NEED FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES TO COMBAT POVERTY 7. The Role of Public Engagement in Achieving Environmental Justice LeRoy C. (Lee) Paddock 8. The Right of Access to Information as a Tool for Environmental Protection and Poverty Eradication in Mexico Carla D. Aceves-Ávila PART IV: STATES’ APPROACHES TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND POVERTY 9. Embedding Social Justice in the Design of Environmental Regulation Paul Martin 10. Planning and Environment in Mexico City’s Metropolitan Zone: Trying to Defeat Poverty Miriam Alfie Cohen and Oscar Flores Jáuregui PART V: THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL COURTS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION 11. The ‘Greening’ of Justice: Will it Help the Poor? George W. (Rock) Pring and Catherine G. (Kitty) Pring 12. The Resolution of Urban Housing Development Disputes as a Mechanism for Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study of Kenya’s National Environment Tribunal Albert Mumma PART VI: GLOBAL CHALLENGES: INTERNATIONAL MECHANISMS TO ADDRESS POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION 13. Linking Climate Change Mitigation and Poverty Reduction: Continued Reform of the Clean Development Mechanism in the Post-Kyoto Era to Promote Sustainable Energy Development on the African Continent Daniel Behn 14. Poverty and the Loss of Cultural Heritage Sites Stefan Gruber 15. Chartering Sustainable Transnational Corporations Susan Lea Smith Index

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Book SynopsisThe challenge of including youth in the labour market is a problem which many European countries are facing. Examining the transition from education to employment, Youth, Diversity and Employment combines insights from law and the social sciences to link the challenges and specific barriers facing young and vulnerable people today. Based on original research, this book presents ways in which social protection policies in Europe can utilise the synergy between redistribution and regulations to combat economic inactivity and exclusion of young people.Drawing on the experiences of Nordic countries, which represent cases of high theoretical and political relevance, and systematically examining the significance of social regulation on the employment opportunities for young adults, this book develops an original approach to social protection policies. This book focuses on ways to strengthen the demand for the work capacity of European youth, identifying principles which will make the best progress in policy making to assist youth transitions into work. Arguing that gender, ethnicity, and disability are increasingly important factors to consider, chapters reveal how to ensure that the full use of skills that young adults have can be brought to the workforce effectively.This book will be a valuable tool for students and scholars of social policy, sociology, employment and human rights law, and cultural studies, as well as for researchers, who will find the analytical framework and new data useful for future research into youth transitions, policy, and social protection policies.Contributors include: O.M. Arnardóttir, O. Bäckman, R. Halvorsen, M.J. Hotvedt, B. Hvinden, C. Hyggen, V. Jakobsen, K. Jokumsen, L. Kolouh-Söderlund, S. Kuivalainen, T. Lorentzen, S. Niknami, K. Nousianen, T. Olsen, E. Österbacka, J.G. Rice, M.A. Schøyen, L. Schröder, M. Seeleib-Kaiser, T.F. Spreckelsen, J. Tägtström, R. Traustadóttir, M. Ventegodt, E. WadensjöTrade Review‘This book is an important contribution to the welfare state literature as well as the school-to-work transition literature, on three regards in particular. First, it provides an in-depth empirical analysis of the situation of young people and of policy reforms in Nordic countries, which are comparatively highly relevant, both from a scientific and a political point of view. Second, authors do not focus only on one policy sector and try to take into account many policies at the same time, which is crucial if one wants to take “regimes” or “institutional complementarities” seriously. Third, they deal with specific groups of vulnerable young people usually overlooked in the literature, i.e. minority ethnic youth and young people with disabilities.’ -- Tom Chevalier, Journal of Social Policy‘The book addresses very timely issues from a variety of perspectives and is thus appealing not only to scholars and students of social sciences and legal studies but also to practitioners and policymakers who seek a nuanced account of the multifaceted challenges involved with school to work transitions and youth unemployment.’ -- Jennifer Shore, Social Policy and AdministrationTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Rune Halvorsen and Bjørn Hvinden 2. Young People at Risk. School Dropout and Labour Market Exclusion in the Nordic countries Christer Hyggen, Lidija Kolouh-Söderlund, Terje Olsen and Jenny Tägtström 3. Youth Labour Market Outsiderness: The Nordic Model compared with Britain and Germany Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Thees F. Spreckelsen 4. Early School Leaving and Labour Market Inclusion in the Nordic Countries Olof Bäckman, Vibeke Jakobsen, Thomas Lorentzen and Eva Österbacka 5. Minority Ethnic Youth in the Nordic Labour Market. Policy Responses and Outcomes Susan Niknami, Lena Schröder and Eskil Wadensjö 6. New Approach to Promoting Youth Inclusion in the Labour Market? Disability in the Nordic Welfare States Rune Halvorsen, Bjørn Hvinden, Susan Kuivalainen and Mi Ah Schøyen 7. Nordic Disability Employment Laws and Policies in a Human Rights Perspective Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir, Marianne Jenum Hotvedt, Kevat Nousianen and Maria Ventegodt 8. Social networks, recruitment strategies and the ambiguities of employment activation programmes: perspectives of employers and vulnerable youth Rannveig Traustadóttir, James G. Rice and Kristjana Jokumsen 9. Integrated discussion: managing diversity among youth in Nordic social protection policies Rune Halvorsen and Bjørn Hvinden Index

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Book SynopsisEurope has become a dominant frame for the generation, regulation and perception of social inequalities. This trend was solidified by the current economic crisis, which is characterised by increasing inequalities between central and peripheral countries and groups. By analysing the double polarisation between winners and losers of the crisis; the segmentation of labour markets; and the perceived quality of life in Europe, this book contributes to a better understanding of patterns and dynamics of inequality in an integrated Europe.The contributions from experts in the field offer a multi-level perspective. They explore links between objective inequalities and subjective perceptions and frames of reference. They combine the analysis of growing inequalities between different social groups and between central and peripheral countries. Analysis of unemployment and income inequality is based on European-wide micro datasets and the editor argues for both European and national frames of reference for analysis of unemployment and income inequality.Offering new insights on the increasing unemployment and income inequalities in Europe before and during the current financial and Eurozone crisis this is a vital text. Anyone interested in the challenges of social cohesion in Europe will find this book a rich, innovative resource.Contributors include: F. Buttler, M. Heidenreich, C. Ingensiep, S. Israel, J. Preunkert, C. Reimann,Trade ReviewExploring Inequality in Europe marks a major advance in the sociology of European integration. Heidenreich's research group moves well beyond methodologically nationalist analyses of income inequality, using Eurostat survey data from before and after the recent recession. They demonstrate that EU citizens understand their own economic fortunes (a) in relative comparison to other EU citizens, and (b) as vulnerable to forces of European integration. This important book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand how the EU has increased economic inequality and reshaped contemporary distributive politics in Europe. --Jason Beckfield, Harvard UniversityThis study marks a major breakthrough in research on European societies. While most of us working in this field still compare a set of national accounts, Martin Heidenreich and his colleagues treat the causes, profiles and consequences of inequality on a Europe-wide basis. This approach enables us to see underlying processes that nationally based projects cannot perceive. --Colin Crouch, Vice-president for Social Sciences, British AcademyThis timely book makes a strong case for analyzing patterns and dynamics of social inequality, both cross-nationally and transnationally. It convincingly demonstrates that a multi-faceted double dualization takes place - between social groups and along territorial lines. Moreover, it evinces that processes of horizontal Europeanization and the sovereign debt crises have reshaped the patterns of social inequality and given rise to new social cleavages and forms of conflict. --Steffen Mau, Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: the Double Dualization of Inequality in Europe Martin Heidenreich 2. The Europeanization of Income Inequality Before and During the Eurozone Crisis: Inter-, Supra- and Transnational Perspectives Martin Heidenreich 3. Determinants of Persistent Poverty. Do Institutional Factors Matter? Cathrin Ingensiep 4. The Segmentation of European Labour Market – The Evolution of Short- and Long-term Unemployment Risks During the Eurozone Crisis Martin Heidenreich 5. Women as the Relative Winners of the Eurozone Crisis? Female Employment Opportunities between Austerity, Inclusion and Dualization Martin Heidenreich 6. Temporary Employment and Labour Market Segmentation in Europe 2002–2013 Christian Reimann 7. The Europeanization of Social Determinants and Health in the Great Recession Sabine Israel 8. Does Europeanization of Daily Life Increase the Life Satisfaction of the Europeans? Franziska Buttler 9. The European Integration Process and the Social Consequences of the Crisis Jenny Preunkert Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an extensive and comparative account of how governments go about combating poverty and social exclusion in Europe. Contributions to the volume display robust theoretical anchorage to ground the analysis of the complexities of both multi-level and multi-actor governance, while the perspectives and experiences of target groups are also assessed. Research results elicit enduring problematic aspects that are not likely to disappear when full economic recovery takes place and constitute a must-read for all those interested in how to fight social inequality.'- Ana M. Guillén, University of Oviedo, Spain'The authors of this book have succeeded in developing a new and original approach to the study of combating poverty and social exclusion. Using a framework that combines insights from multi-level and network governance theory, the book analyses and compares the governance arrangements that European countries introduced in the context of active inclusion policies, and evaluates why these arrangements work or fail - an ambitious and very relevant project!'- Rik van Berkel, Utrecht School of Governance, the NetherlandsDiscovering methods to combat poverty and social exclusion has now become a major political challenge in Europe. Combating Poverty in Europe offers an original and timely analysis of how this challenge is met by actors at European, national and subnational levels.Building on a European study comparing Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the UK, this book provides new insights into the processes and mechanisms that promote or hinder interaction between the increasingly multi-layered European system for responding to poverty and social exclusion in EU member states. The contributors present systematic and comparative analyses of social policy design, institutional frameworks and delivery practices from a multi-level governance perspective.Original and diverse, this book will appeal to researchers and scholars in comparative social policy, as well as policy officials in the EU, national government and anti-poverty NGOs.Contributors include: A. Angelin, H. Bennett, D. Clegg, M. Ferrera, R. Halvorsen, B. Hvinden, M. Jessoula, H. Johansson, M. Koch, W. Kozek, J. Kubisa, F. Maino, A. Panican, D. Spannagel, E. Ugreninov, M. Ziele skaTrade Review‘The book provides a valuable contribution to the analysis of anti-poverty measures and is inevitable reading for all those who are studying the phenomenon of poverty in the 21st century.’ -- Filip Bojić, European Journal of Social Security‘This book provides an extensive and comparative account of how governments go about combating poverty and social exclusion in Europe. Contributions to the volume display robust theoretical anchorage to ground the analysis of the complexities of both multi-level and multi-actor governance, while the perspectives and experiences of target groups are also assessed. Research results elicit enduring problematic aspects that are not likely to disappear when full economic recovery takes place and constitute a must-read for all those interested in how to fight social inequality.’ -- Ana M. Guillén, University of Oviedo, Spain‘The authors of this book have succeeded in developing a new and original approach to the study of combating poverty and social exclusion. Using a framework that combines insights from multi-level and network governance theory, the book analyses and compares the governance arrangements that European countries introduced in the context of active inclusion policies, and evaluates why these arrangements work or fail – an ambitious and very relevant project!’ -- Rik van Berkel, Utrecht School of Governance, the Netherlands‘The editors and authors have produced a well-researched and highly relevant book that reveals the deep complexity of the task of combating poverty in Europe.’ -- Citizen’s Income NewsletterTable of ContentsContents: PART I BACKGROUND 1. Introduction: How to Achieve Active Inclusion in a Multi-layered Political Context? Rune Halvorsen and Bjørn Hvinden 2. Who is Poor? Linking Perceptions of Poor People and Political Responses to Poverty Bjørn Hvinden and Rune Halvorsen 3. Poverty and Social Exclusion as Challenge for Active Inclusion – The Spatial Dimension Elisabeth Ugreninov and Dorethee Spannagel 4. Poverty and Social Inclusion as Emerging Policy Arenas in the EU Maurizio Ferrera and Matteo Jessoula PART II A MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM AS SEEN FROM THE NATIONAL ANGLE 5. Institutional Arrangements and Policy Coordination in National Anti-poverty Regimes Daniel Clegg 6. Have Governments Designed Provisions for Lone Mothers, Long-term Unemployed and Working Poor to be Multidimensional and Integrated? Anna Angelin, Hayley Bennett and Marianna Zieleńska 7. Killing, Domesticating or Feeding the Snake: The Implementation of the Europe 2020 Anti-poverty Component at the National Level Matteo Jessoula PART III A MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM AS SEEN FROM SUBNATIONAL ANGLES 8. Approaches, Actors and Models of Vertical Collaborative Governance Arrangements in Combating Poverty - Five European Cities Compared Max Koch and Alexandru Panican 9. Mixing Multi-level and Network Governance: How do Local Actors Relate to the Policies, Steering Mechanisms and Resources of Higher-level Actors? Håkan Johansson and Franca Maino 10. The Perspectives of Lone Mothers, Long-term Unemployed and Working Poor People on Provisions for Active Inclusion Wiesława Kozek and Julia Kubisa PART IV CONCLUSION 11. An Emerging Multilevel System of Active Inclusion in Europe? Bjørn Hvinden and Rune Halvorsen Index

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Book SynopsisThere has been a rapid global expansion of academic and policy attention focusing on in-work poverty, illustrating that across the world there are increasing numbers of people who could be described as the ?working poor?. Taking a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current research at the intersection between work and poverty.Authoritative contributions from leading researchers in the field provide comprehensive coverage of conceptual and measurement issues, causal drivers and mechanisms, key empirical findings, policy issues and debates. The Handbook is unique in offering perspectives from a wide range of regions and countries, stretching beyond developed countries. It also does justice to the paradigmatic diversity in approaches to in-work poverty, offering a wealth of variety in disciplinary approaches.Academically rigorous, yet clear and concise, this Handbook will benefit students and scholars of public policy, politics, social policy and development studies. It will also prove accessible for policy analysts and journalists looking to explore the issue from new angles.Contributors include: P. Barbieri, A. Barrientos, K.M. Blankenship, D. Brady, E. Crettaz, G. Cutuli, J.C. Feres, N.-S. Fritsch, M. Giesselmann, J. Horemans, A. Horton, L. Kenworthy, M. Leibbrandt, A. Levanon, D.T. Lichter, K. Lilenstein, H. Lohmann, J.-d. Lue, B. Maître, L. Maldonado, L.C. Maldonado, S. Marchal, I. Marx, R. Maurizio, R. Nieuwenhuis, B. Nolan, S. Oselin, S. Ponthieux, L. Pradella, J. Prieto, E. Saburov, W. Salverda, S.R. Sanders, S. Scherer, D. Seikel, D. Spannagel, B.C. Thiede, V. Unnikrishnan, W. Van Lancker, L. Vandecasteele, G. Verbist, R. Verwiebe, C.T. Whelan, J. Wills, I. Woolard, C.-Y. YehTrade Review'A handbook on ''in-work poverty'' research is long overdue. Here we have a very complete and compelling review of the policy connections between work and low-income status from a world-class set of contributors. The volume manages to touch on almost all of the key issues related to the world-wide adoption of in-work anti-poverty policies and how they interact with institution, families and society. Bravo!' --Timothy M. Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Henning Lohmann and Ive Marx PART I GENERAL PERSPECTIVES 2. The concept and measurement of in-work poverty Henning Lohmann 3. Low earnings and their drivers in relation to in-work poverty Wiemer Salverda 4. Explaining cross-country differences in in-work poverty Henning Lohmann and Eric Crettaz 5. Gender and in-work poverty Sophie Ponthieux 6. In-work poverty among migrants Eric Crettaz PART II INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLD PERSPECTIVES ON IN-WORK POVERTY 7. Demographic drivers of in-work poverty Brian C. Thiede, Scott R. Sanders and Daniel T. Lichter 8. Low pay, in-work poverty and economic vulnerability Bertrand Maître, Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan 9. Atypical employment and in-work poverty Jeroen Horemans 10. Single-parent families and in-work poverty Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado 11. The dynamics of in-work poverty Leen Vandecasteele and Marco Giesselmann PART III POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK 12. Income support policies for the working poor Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx and Gerlinde Verbist 13. Impacts of the living wage on in-work poverty Amy Horton and Jane Wills 14. Activation and in-work poverty Daniel Seikel and Dorothee Spannagel 15. Childcare policies and in-work poverty Wim van Lancker and Jeroen Horemans 16. The international political economy of the working poor in Western Europe Lucia Pradella PART IV EUROPE AND THE US 17. Labor market flexibilization, and in-work poverty: A comparative analysis of Germany, Austria and Switzerland Nina-Sophie Fritsch and Roland Verwiebe 18. In-work poverty in Southern Europe: The case of Italy Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli and Stefani Scherer 19. In-work Poverty in the United States Lane Kenworthy and Ive Marx PART V LATIN AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA AND ASIA 20. In-work poverty and social assistance in developing countries Armando Barrientos and Vidhya Unnikrishnan 21. In-work poverty in Latin America: Prevalence, driving forces and trends Roxana Maurizio 22. The working poor in Chile during the period 1990-2013 Luis Maldonado, Joaquin Prieto and Juan Carlos Feres 23. In-work poverty in South Africa: The impact of income sharing in the presence of high unemployment Kezia Lilenstein, Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt 24. Changes in the demographic antecedents of poverty among workers in Israel, 1991-2011 Asaf Levanon and Evgeny Saburov 25. In-work poverty in three East Asian welfare states Chung-Yang Yeh and Jen-Der Lue 26. Working poor in the informal economy: Material deprivation among female sex workers in India David Brady, Sharon Oselin and Kim M. Blankenship Index

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Book SynopsisThis impressive research collection discusses the most important contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field of poverty measurement. It analyses what constitutes poverty and associated poverty measures, as well as conceptual and empirical approaches to set poverty lines for both national and international settings. The research collection also discusses national and international income poverty measures, multidimensional poverty indices, and ways to capture poverty dynamics.Trade Review‘This collection of landmark works on the concepts and methods for measuring poverty will be highly valuable to students and scholars in the field. Augmented by an original introduction by S. Klasen, a most prominent contributor to the analysis of poverty, it provides an illuminating synthesis that will remain a key resource for years.’ -- Marc Fleurbaey, Princeton University, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Stephan Klasen PART I CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES IN A SINGLE DIMENSION 1. Buhong Zheng (1993), ‘An Axiomatic Characterization of the Watts Poverty Index’, Economic Letters, 42 (1), 81–86 2. Amartya Sen (1976), ‘Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement’, Econometrica, 44 (2), March, 219–31 3. James Foster, Joel Greer and Erik Thorbecke (1984), ‘Notes and Comments: A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures’, Econometrica, 52 (3), May, 761–66 4. A.B. Atkinson (1970), ‘On the Measurement of Poverty’, Econometrica, 55 (4), July, 749–64 5. Amartya Sen (1983), ‘Poor, Relatively Speaking’, Oxford Economic Papers, 35 (2), 153–69 [17] 6. Peter Townsend (1985), ‘A Sociological Approach to the Measurement of Poverty–A Rejoinder to Professor Amartya Sen’, Oxford Economic Papers, 37 (4), December, 659–68 7. Amartya Sen (1985), ‘A Sociological Approach to the Measurement of Poverty: A Reply to Peter Townsend', Oxford Economic Papers, 37 (4), December, 669–76 8. Lawrence Haddad and Ravi Kanbur (1990), ‘How Serious is the Neglect of Intra–Household Inequality?’, Economic Journal, 100 (402), September, 866–81 PART II EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO NATIONAL INCOME POVERTY MEASUREMENT 9. Mollie Orshansky (1965), ‘Counting the Poor: Another Look at the Poverty Profile’, Social Security Bulletin, 28 (1), January, 3–29 10. Joel Greer and Erik Thorbecke (1986), ‘A Methodology for Measuring Food Poverty Applied to Kenya’, Journal of Development Economics, 24 (1), November, 59–74 11. Martin Ravallion and Benu Bidani (1994), ‘How Robust is a Poverty Profile’, World Bank Economic Review, 8 (1), January, 75–102 12. Martin Ravallion and Binayak Sen (1996), ‘When Method Matters: Monitoring Poverty in Bangladesh,’ Economic Development and Cultural Change, 44 (4), July, 761–92 13. Victor R. Fuchs (1967), ‘Redefining Poverty and Redistributing Income’, Public Interest, 8, Summer, 88–95 14. Arie Kapetyn, Peter Kooreman and Rob Willemse (1988), ‘Some Methodological Issues in the Implementation of Subjective Poverty Definitions’, Journal of Human Resources, 23 (2), Spring, 222–42 15. Menno Pradhan and Martin Ravallion (2000), ‘Measuring Poverty Using Qualitative Perceptions of Consumption Adequacy’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 82 (3), August, 462–71 16. Brigitte Buhmann, Lee Rainwater, Guenther Schmaus and Timothy M. Smeeding (1988), ‘Equivalence Scales, Well-being, Inequality and Poverty: Sensitivity Estimates Across Ten Countries Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database’, Review of Income and Wealth, 34 (2), 115–42 17. Jean Drèze and P.V. Srinivasan (1997), ‘Widowhood and Poverty in Rural India: Some Inferences From Household Survey Data’, Journal of Development Economics, 54 (2), December, 217–34 18. Daniel T. Slesnick (1993), ‘Gaining Ground: Poverty in the Postwar United States’, Journal of Political Economy, 101 (1), February, 1–38 PART III EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL INCOME POVERTY MEASUREMENT 19. Montek S. Ahluwalia, Nicholas G. Carter and Hollis B. Chenery (1979), ‘Growth and Poverty in Developing Countries’, Journal of Development Economics, 6 (3), 299–341 20. Martin Ravallion, Gaurav Datt and Dominique van de Walle (1991), Quantifying Absolute Poverty in the Developing World', Review of Income and Wealth, 37 (4), December, 21. Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion (2001), ‘How did the World’s Poorest Fare in the 1900s?’, Review of Income and Wealth, 47 (3), September, 283–300 22. Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion (2010), ‘The Developing World is Poorer than we Thought, but no Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (4), November, 1577–625 23. Angus Deaton (2010), ‘Price Indexes, Inequality and the Measurement of World Poverty’, American Economic Review, 100 (1), March, 5–34 24. Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Shaohua Chen, Andrew Dabalen, Yuri Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, Dean Jolliffe, Ambar Narayan, Espen Beer Prydz, Ana Revenga, Prem Sangraula, Umar Serajuddin and Nobuo Yoshida (2016), ‘A Global Count of the Extreme Poor in 2012: Data Issues, Methdology and Initial Results’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 14 (2), June, 141–72 25. Stephan Klasen, Tatyana Krivobokova, Friederike Greb, Rahul Lahoti, Syamsul Hidayat Pasaribu and Manuel Wisenfarth (2016),‘International Income Poverty Measurement: Which Way Now?’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 14 (2), June, 199–225 26. Sanjay Reddy and Rahul Lahoti (2016), ‘$1.90 a Day: What Does it Say? The New International Poverty Line’, New Left Review, 97, January–February, 106–27 27. Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen (2011) ‘Weakly Relative Poverty’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 93 (4), November, 1251–261 28. Martin Ravallion (2016), ‘Toward Better Global Poverty Measures’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 14 (2), June, 227–48 PART IV CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY MEASUREMENT 29. François Bourguignon and Sayta R. Chakravarty (2003), ‘The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 1 (1), April, 25–49 30. Satya R. Chakravarty and Conchita D’Ambrosio (2006), ‘The Measurement of Social Exclusion’, Review of Income and Wealth, 52 (3), September, 377–98 31. D. Jayaraj and S. Subramanian (2010), ‘A. Chakravarty – D’Ambrosio View of Multidimensional Deprivation: Some Estimates for India’, Economic and Political Weekly, XLX (6), February, 53–65 32. Sabina Alkire and James Foster (2011), ‘Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement’, Journal of Public Economics, 95 (7–8), August, 476–87 33. Jean-Yves Duclos, David E. Sahn and Stephen D. Younger (2006) ‘Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons’, Economic Journal, 116 (514), October, 943–68 PART V EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY MEASUREMENT 34. Stephan Klasen (2000), ‘Measuring Poverty and Deprivation in South Africa’, Review of Income and Wealth, 46 (1), March, 33–58 35. Sabine Alkire and Maria Emma Santos (2014), ‘Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World: Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index’, World Development, 59, July, 251–74 36. Martin Ravallion (2011) ‘On Multidimensional Indices of Poverty’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 9 (2), March, 235–48 37. Nicole Rippin (2016), ‘Multidimensional Poverty in Germany: A Capability Approach’, Forum for Social Economics, 45 (2–3), 230–55 PART VI POVERTY DYNAMICS: CHRONIC AND TRANSITIONAL POVERTY, VULNERABILITY 38. Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion (1998), ‘Transient Poverty in Postreform Rural China’, Journal of Comparative Economics, 26 (2), June, 338–57 39. Ethan Ligon and Laura Schechter (2003), ‘Measuring Vunerability’, Economic Journal’, 113 (486), March, C95–C102 40. Felix Povel (2015), ‘Measuring Exposure to Downside Risk with an Application to Thailand and Vietnam’, World Development, 71, July, 4–24 41. Walter Bossert, Satya Chakravarty and Conchita D’ Ambrosio (2012), ‘Poverty and Time’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 10 (2), June, 145–62 Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism, tracing the development of the movement from its origins in the Defender movement of the 1790s to the latter part of the century when the remnants of the Ribbon tradition found solace in a new movement: the quasi-constitutional affinities of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Placing Ribbonism firmly within Ireland’s long tradition of secret societies, this book shows that, due to its diversity and adaptability, it stood apart from other similar bodies and showed remarkable longevity not matched by its contemporaries. The book describes the wider context of Catholic struggles for improved standing, explores traditions and networks for association, and it describes external impressions. Drawing on rich archives in the form of state surveillance records, `show trial’ proceedings and press reportage, the book shows that Ribbonism was a sophisticated and durable underground network drawing together various strands of the rural and urban Catholic populace in Ireland and Britain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Britain is a fascinating study that demonstrates Ribbonism operated more widely than previous studies have revealed.Trade ReviewReviews'An important contribution to the corpus of scholarship on secret societies, violence and politics in nineteenth-century Ireland.'Jay R. Roszman, Irish Historical Studies 'This is an excellent study, meticulously researched and lucidly written. The considerable detail adds to the interest and value of the work by opening up avenues for further research into this elusive and yet very real world of Irish subversives transnationally in the nineteenth century.'Maura Cronin, Studia Hibernica'A thorough excavation of not just the perceptions of Ribbonism but also the workings of the “official mind” in Dublin Castle during the first few decades of the nineteenth century.'John O’Donovan, Irish Studies Review'Hughes and MacRaild’s study on Ribbonism is to be commended for recalibrating our gaze towards these too often neglected decades, and years, and the lower class voices which filled them.'Kerron Ó Luain, Dublin Review of Books'An outstanding work of scholarship, one that is authoritative, substantial and carefully constructed...The work makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Irish secret societies, specifically Ribbonism, and to a whole range of characters and forces associated with such bodies... Stylish and engaging, Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth‐Century Ireland and its Diaspora is strongly recommended.'Laurence Geary, History: The Journal of the Historical AssociationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Defining and Refining Ribbonism1. Out of Defenderism: Ribbonism in the Early Nineteenth Century2. Ribbon Networks in the 1820s: A Revolutionary Moment3. Ribbonism, O’Connellism and Catholicism in the 1820s and 1830s4. The Transnational World of Richard Jones, 1835-425. Catholic Collectivism at Home and Abroad during the Famine Period6. Ribbonmen in their Urban Communities during the 1850s7. From Ribbonism to Hibernianism in the Post-Famine Diaspora8. Ribbonmen, Fenians and Hibernians: Clashes and Convergences from the 1870sConclusion: Ribbonism: ‘An Accretion of Mythical Subject Matter’?

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Beggars and begging were ubiquitous features of pre-Famine Irish society, yet have gone largely unexamined by historians. This book explores at length for the first time the complex cultures of mendicancy, as well as how wider societal perceptions of and responses to begging were framed by social class, gender and religion. The study breaks new ground in exploring the challenges inherent in defining and measuring begging and alms-giving in pre-Famine Ireland, as well as the disparate ways in which mendicants were perceived by contemporaries. A discussion of the evolving role of parish vestries in the life of pre-Famine communities facilitates an examination of corporate responses to beggary, while a comprehensive analysis of the mendicity society movement, which flourished throughout Ireland in the three decades following 1815, highlights the significance of charitable societies and associational culture in responding to the perceived threat of mendicancy. The instance of the mendicity societies illustrates the extent to which Irish commentators and social reformers were influenced by prevailing theories and practices in the transatlantic world regarding the management of the poor and deviant. Drawing on a wide range of sources previously unused for the study of poverty and welfare, this book makes an important contribution to modern Irish social and ecclesiastical history.Trade Review'McCabe initiates a much needed shift in focuses from the urgent response to a humanitarian crisis in the wake of the potato blight to a comprehensive analysis to how Irish society tackled the challenges and instituted a framework to meet the needs of the most vulnerable on a daily basis. In this way, McCabe’s book is essential reading when considering the ways an analysis of class, gender and religion in Pre-Famine Ireland illuminates how a growing sense of social awareness not only surfaced in this period but shaped the way Irish society would define and advance itself into the modern era.'Victoria Anne Pearson, Women's History Association Ireland'This is an insightful and enlightening study, lucidly written and grounded in meticulous research in a wide range of sources, many of which have been given only cursory treatment by historians to date.' Maura Cronin, Irish Economic and Social History'This is an important and welcome addition to the literature on poor relief practices in nineteenth-century Europe. Ciarán McCabe has written a scholarly and thought-provoking, yet accessible book.'Julie Marfany, Cultural and Social History'By using philanthropy as a lens, this study allows us to learn much about the social dynamics of pre-Famine Ireland, and it will no doubt prove valuable and thought provoking for all those interested in these complex interactions.'Joe Curran, Australasian Journal of Irish Studies'The reader is presented with multiple vernacular perspectives of poverty of both men and women that ensures a richly variegated account of poverty in pre-Famine Ireland.'Brian Casey, Irish Historical Studies'Begging certainly elicited the attention of the religious of all denominations, the economic and social commentators, and the charitably minded who provided alms, who occupy a majority of the pages of this innovative and helpful study ... [McCabe] has shone a bright light on the efforts of those who contrived to alleviate the condign poverty in their midst and the considerations, both practical and ideal, that guided their deliberations and decisions.' James Kelly, Studia Hibernia

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Book SynopsisPoverty remains a problem in Europe, raising the need for new solutions. In this thought-provoking book the contributors delve deeply into the everyday lives of poor households to see which practices and resources they apply to improve their situations. One of the key findings is that social resilience requires a functioning welfare state operating as a warrantor of common and public goods, on which poor households can build up resilient practices.This insightful book illustrates that in addition to sufficient welfare transfers, there is a need for low-commodified common goods, including public health services, access to housing, education infrastructures and public space. These need to be made available not only for the registered poor but all low-income households. Drawing on over 400 interviews with families and experts across Europe, the chapters demonstrate the need for social policy to become more tolerant towards various forms of small additional income generation and non-commodified values and lifestyles.Poverty, Crisis and Resilience will be a key resource for students and scholars of social policy, poverty research and sociology, while also being of value to social policy practitioners within the charity sector, welfare state administration, social work, politics and counselling.Trade Review'The aftermath of the 2008 crisis left many communities across Europe facing serious problems, with the capacity of households to endure hardships pushed to the limit. In this exceptional volume the editors have brought together and distilled the multi-disciplinary and cross-country work of over thirty researchers to reveal a multiplicity of household strategies for survival, often drawn from past practices. In doing so they have, through careful questioning and analysis, reclaimed the once tainted notion of "resilience". Freed from all heroic connotations and seen to reside within the historically received structures of daily life, here "resilient households" are placed within their civil society where "self help" sits alongside mutual aid, public provision and charitable giving. It is all suggestive of an approach that can illuminate and direct public policy toward creating a better life for people in deprived areas now and in the post COVID future.' -- Huw Beynon, Cardiff University, UK'This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to ways of thinking about poverty, based on new research by multi-disciplinary teams in nine countries and putting the concept of resilience centre stage. The comparative approach is sensitive to institutional, structural, and local contexts, and the interview, biographical, and photographic data are vivid and compelling. Resilience is a contested concept, not without critics, but the authors make a strong case for understanding processes of resilience in adversity and everyday lives. Highly recommended.' -- Jane Millar, University of Bath, UK'This timely collection of reflections about resilience practices, and the social, cultural and economic resources mobilised by households to cope with poverty, offers a fresh and innovative perspective concerning the tricky EU metaconcept of resilience. Poverty, Crisis and Resilience provides a transdisciplinary and cross cultural contribution to the literature on poverty and resilience. It is essential and fascinating reading for anyone interested in a sociological approach to resilience.' -- Amparo Serrano-Pascual, Complutense University of Madrid, SpainTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCING POVERTY, CRISIS AND HOUSEHOLD RESILIENCE 1 Introduction: poverty, resilience and the European crisis 2 Markus Promberger, Marie Boost, Jennifer Dagg and Jane Gray 2 Household economy as cultural and social practice: towards a framework for investigating poverty and resilience 19 Markus Promberger and Terhi Vuojala-Magga 3 The impact of the European crisis in vulnerable households in Europe 38 Pedro Estêvão, Alexandre Calado and Luís Capucha PART II PERSPECTIVES ON HOUSEHOLD RESILIENCE 4 Developing the concept of poverty and resilience 59 Marie Boost, Markus Promberger, Lars Meier and Frank Sowa 5 Critical perspectives on resilience 74 Alexandre Calado, Luís Capucha, Hulya Dagdeviren, Matthew Donoghue and Pedro Estêvão PART III DIMENSIONS OF HOUSEHOLD RESILIENCE 6 Socio-economic practices of households coping with hardship 89 Hulya Dagdeviren and Matthew Donoghue 7 Cultural aspects of resilience from the perspective of everyday practices of households affected by economic crisis 107 Monika Gnieciak and Kazimiera Wódz 8 Turning points and critical moments in resilient European lives: a biographical longitudinal analysis 126 Jennifer Dagg and Jane Gray 9 Gender regimes in vulnerable households during the recession – what has changed and what not? 145 Concepción Castrillo, Paz Martín, María Arnal and Aracelí Serrano 10 Space and resilience – a scalar analysis of household resilience in Europe 163 E. Attila Aytekin and H. Tarık Şengül 11 The paradoxes of resilience and social, political and community participation in Europe 181 Aracelí Serrano, Juan Carlos Revilla, Mª Paz Martín and Carlos de Castro 12 Social economy and household resilience 199 Witold Mandrysz and Kazimiera Wódz 13 Aesthetics, self-reliance and resilience 221 Aida Bosch and Markus Promberger PART IV CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 14 A typology of resilient households 234 Markus Promberger, Marie Boost and Janina Müller 15 Strategies of resilience and the welfare state in Southern Europe 264 Nelli Kambouri, Soula Marinoudi and Georgia Petraki 16 Household resilience as an enhanced European policy discourse 282 Monica Tennberg and Joonas Vola 17 Crisis and resilience in poor European households: core findings and conclusions 302 Jennifer Dagg, Markus Promberger, Marie Boost and Jane Gray Index

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Book SynopsisThis important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.Leading experts in the human rights field representing a range of disciplines outline a future research agenda to address poverty and inequality head on. Beginning with an interrogation of the definition of poverty, subsequent chapters analyse the dynamics of poverty and inequality in relation to matters such as race, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, geography and migration status. The rights to housing, land, health, work, education, protest and access to justice are also explored, with a recognition of the challenges posed by corruption, climate change and new technologies.The Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty is an essential reference guide for those who teach in these areas and for scholars and students developing future research agendas of their own. This will also be a much-needed resource for people working practically to address poverty in both the Global North and Global South.Trade Review'The Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty is a timely and welcome addition to the growing literature on poverty, economic inequality and human rights. Coming at a propitious global moment, in the wake of a crushing pandemic that has reinforced and exacerbated the historical causes, impacts and patterns of poverty, this volume provides cogent and innovative insights into confronting poverty as a core human rights issue. An impressively interdisciplinary exploration by a collection of thoughtful and informed scholars and advocates who are well versed in the issues of poverty and human rights, the Handbook is a compelling and useful text for educators. Hopefully, it may also spawn commitments from policy makers and governments worldwide to confront the urgent need to eradicate poverty and inequality.' -- – Penelope Andrews, President, Law & Society Association (2019-2021); Professor of Law and Director, Racial Justice Project, New York Law SchoolTable of ContentsContents: Opening Note Michelle Bachelet Forward Philip Alston xix Introduction to the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty xxv PART I DEFINITIONS, MEASUREMENTS AND STANDARDS 1 A human rights-based approach to measuring poverty 2 Olivier De Schutter 2 From stigma to rights: uncovering the hidden dimension of poverty 21 Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona 3 Current perspectives on global poverty: rights, capabilities and social exclusion 37 Ayşe Buğra 4 Is economic inequality a violation of human rights? 53 Gillian MacNaughton 5 Poverty and political rights: an exercise of recovery from oblivion 69 Karolina Miriam Januszewski and Manfred Nowak 6 Human rights and poverty reduction: what are the linkages? 88 Hans-Otto Sano PART II CROSS-CURRENTS A. POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND IDENTITY 7 Breaking the link between poverty and disability: re-purposing human rights in the 21st century 106 Gerard Quinn 8 Poverty, older persons and human rights 125 Andrew Byrnes 9 Child impoverishment and the human rights of children 141 Wouter Vandenhole 10 Capping motherhood 156 Meghan Campbell 11 The price that is paid: violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and poverty 171 Victor Madrigal-Borloz 12 Assessing racialized poverty: the case of Romani people in the European Union 192 Margareta Matache and Simona Barbu 13 Rights, racism, and poverty: failures of the global commitment to leave no one behind 211 Gay McDougall B. POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERSECTING WITH GEOGRAPHY AND PLACE 14 Immigration, poverty and human rights 230 Tally Kritzman-Amir 15 Human rights and a-legality: destitution of persons seeking asylum in the EU 247 Eleni Karageorgiou 16 Seeing human rights like a city: the prospects and perils of the ‘urban turn’ 264 Natalia Ángel-Cabo and Luisa Sotomayor 17 The role of local authorities in addressing poverty and implementing human rights norms 279 Moritz Baumgärtel 18 Addressing poverty at its base: the housing and land rights approach 295 Miloon Kothari 19 The land rights-poverty nexus 310 Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell Sr. 20 Indigenous Peoples’ land rights: a culturally sensitive strategy for poverty eradication and sustainable development 324 Alejandro Fuentes C. POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND PARTICIPATION 21 Human rights, poverty and mobilizations 339 Domingo A. Lovera-Parmo 22 Advancing human rights through legal empowerment of the disadvantaged 355 Lisa Hilbink and Valentina Salas PART III MECHANISMS AND POLICIES 23 A human rights critique of contemporary social policy paradigms: new behaviourism, social investment and new universalism 371 Volkan Yilmaz 24 The human right to housing in the age of financialization 386 Leilani Farha and Kaitlin Schwan 25 The right to health for people living in poverty: a human rights perspective 402 Mette Hartlev 26 Human rights and abortion access for people living in poverty: implications for the United States and globally 417 Risa E. Kaufman and Diana Kasdan 27 What is wrong with the privatization of education as anti-poverty policy from a human rights perspective? 433 Antonio Barboza-Vergara and Esteban Hoyos-Ceballos 28 Poverty, labour law and human rights: a necessary connection 447 Lee Swepston and Constance Thomas 29 Minimum wage, poverty reduction and human rights in Cambodia: a case study 464 Sophal Chea 30 Fair taxes to end poverty 476 Åsa Gunnarsson PART IV STRUCTURAL BARRIERS 31 Climate change, human rights and poverty: intersections and challenges 491 Sumudu Atapattu 32 Corruption as a human rights violation 508 Khulekani Moyo 33 Conflict, poverty and human rights violations 523 Zafer Kizilkaya 34 Human rights, technology and poverty 537 Linnet Taylor and Hellen Mukiri-Smith 35 Beyond the state: holding international institutions and private entities accountable for poverty alleviation 552 Lucy Williams Index

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Book SynopsisThis book unites recent findings from quantitative and qualitative research from across Africa to illuminate how young men and women engage with the rural economy and imagine their futures, and how development policies and interventions can find traction with these realities. Through framing, overview and evidence-based chapters, this book provides a critical perspective on current discourse, research and development interventions around youth and rural development. Chapters are organized around commonly-made foundational claims: that large numbers of young people are leaving rural areas, have no interest in agriculture, cannot access land, can be the engine of rural transformation, are stuck in permanent waithood, and that the rural economy can provide a wealth of opportunity. This book: Engages with and challenges current research, policy and development debates. Considers social difference as a way of examining the category of youth. Is written by authors from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, providing varied perspectives. This book draws from existing literature and new analysis of several multi-country and multi-disciplinary studies, focusing on gender and other aspects of social difference. It is suitable for researchers, policy makers and advocates, as well as postgraduate students in international development and agricultural economics.Table of Contents1: African youth and the rural economy: points of departure 2: Empirical windows on African rural youth 3: Are Africa’s rural youth abandoning agriculture? 4: Young people and land 5: Mobility and the rural landscape of opportunity 6: Are young people transforming the rural economy? 7: The social landscape of education and work in rural sub-Saharan Africa 8: Are rural young people stuck in waithood? 9: Young people’s imagined futures 10: Young people and the rural economy: synthesis and implications

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Book SynopsisThis timely book introduces a fresh perspective on youth unemployment by analysing it as a global phenomenon. Continuously-escalating rates of youth unemployment have become endemic, normalised features of contemporary society. Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates argue that only by incorporating analysis of the dynamics of the global economy and global governance can we make convincing, comprehensive sense of these developments. The authors present new substantial evidence spanning a century pointing to the strong relationships between youth unemployment, globalisation, economic crises and consequent harms to young people's social and economic welfare worldwide. The book notably encompasses data and analysis spanning the Global South as well as the Global North.The authors' innovative exploration is holistic in approach and committed to analyses that span histories, territories, academic disciplines and policy contexts. Providing new statistical examination of the incidence, distribution, impacts and putative causes, this book presents a highly original interpretation of youth unemployment and its global governance. It calls for urgently-needed robust responses on a global scale.Global Youth Unemployment is essential reading for students and academics within the fields of social, labour, public and economic policy as well as policy makers within the youth employment and unemployment sectors.Trade Review‘The two authors are very dear and consistent with respect to their purpose, which is a merit to them. In turn, it makes it easier to understand and discuss their viewpoint. For practitioners, the main interest may be to learn how public support and public governance is creat­ing youth unemployment too. This is neither a novelty - except for a truism: it offers another oppor­tunity to consider what professionals are accepting, and what they should not accept.’ -- Niels Rosendal, European Journal of Social Work‘This book is a manifesto of global social policy. ...Global Youth Unemployment features a strong empirical analysis underpinning its major arguments. With an extensive collection of the worldwide employment data from various sources, Fergusson and Yeates convincingly portrait the characteristics of the youth labor forces and the profiles of endemic YU. The extent of data compilation across the regions and over time is remarkable, illustrating the steady rise of YU globally. ...Fergusson and Yeates also demonstrate their excellent expertise in the historical development of global policies toward YU. ...For social policy scholarship, this book sheds new light on a centuries-old social question by linking (un-)employment with the structural transformations of the global economy, and how the latter adversely impact on the youth cohorts of the Global North and South alike.’ -- Shih-Jiunn Shi, The Developing Economies‘Recommended. The text will serve as a valuable reference, providing extensive data sets while offering an important read for anyone interested in social welfare and contemporary public policy.’ -- S.R. Kahn, CHOICE‘Global Youth Unemployment: History, Governance and Policy by Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates is a remarkable book: conceptually rich and empirically epic, it deserves to have a major impact on the study of social policy, and indeed across the social sciences more generally . . . There have been few, if any, books which detail so convincingly and originally the cross-border determinants of youth unemployment. The data presented in the book’s empirical chapter[s] is comprehensive, indeed, almost exhaustive … from a vast array of sources . . . The authors fit the pieces of the puzzle together masterfully . . . Global Youth Unemployment is full of rich and innovative argumentation.’ -- Craig Berry, British Journal of Industrial Relations'Rarely has a study of global youth unemployment so adeptly combined an empirically-grounded scrutiny of its levels and trends, with a conceptually nuanced analysis of its political economy drivers at multiple scales. Fergusson and Yeates make a compelling case for seeing endemic youth unemployment as an issue of grave social injustice-one that supply-side palliative approaches have patently failed to address, and which is in urgent need of integrated employment, social protection and macroeconomic policies backed by a more cohesive system of social and economic governance at the global level.' -- Shahra Razavi, Director of the Social Protection Department, International Labour Organization, Switzerland'This is a timely assessment of a global crisis that has been greatly worsened by the Covid pandemic slump. Youth make up a large percentage of the global precariat, and as the authors convincingly demonstrate, their unemployment has long been huge, with enormous global social and economic consequences. Unless income security can be provided on a worldwide basis there will be justified social unrest.' -- Guy Standing, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, UK'Youth unemployment, as a social policy and social movement issue, now has its definitive treatment in this magnificent book by Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates. Going beyond methodological nationalism it outlines lucidly the causes of endemic youth unemployment on a global scale. It calls for a Global Compact for Youth Employment to address the scandalous fact that nearly half of the world’s unemployed are between 15 and 24 years of age. This is historically grounded, policy relevant, critical analysis at its best.' -- Ronaldo Munck, Professor of Political Sociology, Dublin City University, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: globalising endemic youth unemployment 2. Endemic youth unemployment:a social policy issue 3. The global youth labour force 4. Global economic restructuring and youth labour markets 5. Financial crises and endemic youth unemployment 6. Youth unemployment economic crises and human development, 1991–2018 (with Sarah Tipping) 7. Historical origins and early development of global youth unemployment policy, 1919–1979 8. The neo-liberalisation of global youth unemployment policy, 1980–2021 9. Conclusion: towards a global compact for youth employment References Index

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Book SynopsisThere has been a rapid global expansion of academic and policy attention focusing on in-work poverty, illustrating that across the world there are increasing numbers of people who could be described as the ?working poor?. Taking a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current research at the intersection between work and poverty.Authoritative contributions from leading researchers in the field provide comprehensive coverage of conceptual and measurement issues, causal drivers and mechanisms, key empirical findings, policy issues and debates. The Handbook is unique in offering perspectives from a wide range of regions and countries, stretching beyond developed countries. It also does justice to the paradigmatic diversity in approaches to in-work poverty, offering a wealth of variety in disciplinary approaches.Academically rigorous, yet clear and concise, this Handbook will benefit students and scholars of public policy, politics, social policy and development studies. It will also prove accessible for policy analysts and journalists looking to explore the issue from new angles.Contributors include: P. Barbieri, A. Barrientos, K.M. Blankenship, D. Brady, E. Crettaz, G. Cutuli, J.C. Feres, N.-S. Fritsch, M. Giesselmann, J. Horemans, A. Horton, L. Kenworthy, M. Leibbrandt, A. Levanon, D.T. Lichter, K. Lilenstein, H. Lohmann, J.-d. Lue, B. Maître, L. Maldonado, L.C. Maldonado, S. Marchal, I. Marx, R. Maurizio, R. Nieuwenhuis, B. Nolan, S. Oselin, S. Ponthieux, L. Pradella, J. Prieto, E. Saburov, W. Salverda, S.R. Sanders, S. Scherer, D. Seikel, D. Spannagel, B.C. Thiede, V. Unnikrishnan, W. Van Lancker, L. Vandecasteele, G. Verbist, R. Verwiebe, C.T. Whelan, J. Wills, I. Woolard, C.-Y. YehTrade Review'A handbook on ''in-work poverty'' research is long overdue. Here we have a very complete and compelling review of the policy connections between work and low-income status from a world-class set of contributors. The volume manages to touch on almost all of the key issues related to the world-wide adoption of in-work anti-poverty policies and how they interact with institution, families and society. Bravo!' --Timothy M. Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Henning Lohmann and Ive Marx PART I GENERAL PERSPECTIVES 2. The concept and measurement of in-work poverty Henning Lohmann 3. Low earnings and their drivers in relation to in-work poverty Wiemer Salverda 4. Explaining cross-country differences in in-work poverty Henning Lohmann and Eric Crettaz 5. Gender and in-work poverty Sophie Ponthieux 6. In-work poverty among migrants Eric Crettaz PART II INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLD PERSPECTIVES ON IN-WORK POVERTY 7. Demographic drivers of in-work poverty Brian C. Thiede, Scott R. Sanders and Daniel T. Lichter 8. Low pay, in-work poverty and economic vulnerability Bertrand Maître, Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan 9. Atypical employment and in-work poverty Jeroen Horemans 10. Single-parent families and in-work poverty Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado 11. The dynamics of in-work poverty Leen Vandecasteele and Marco Giesselmann PART III POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK 12. Income support policies for the working poor Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx and Gerlinde Verbist 13. Impacts of the living wage on in-work poverty Amy Horton and Jane Wills 14. Activation and in-work poverty Daniel Seikel and Dorothee Spannagel 15. Childcare policies and in-work poverty Wim van Lancker and Jeroen Horemans 16. The international political economy of the working poor in Western Europe Lucia Pradella PART IV EUROPE AND THE US 17. Labor market flexibilization, and in-work poverty: A comparative analysis of Germany, Austria and Switzerland Nina-Sophie Fritsch and Roland Verwiebe 18. In-work poverty in Southern Europe: The case of Italy Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli and Stefani Scherer 19. In-work Poverty in the United States Lane Kenworthy and Ive Marx PART V LATIN AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA AND ASIA 20. In-work poverty and social assistance in developing countries Armando Barrientos and Vidhya Unnikrishnan 21. In-work poverty in Latin America: Prevalence, driving forces and trends Roxana Maurizio 22. The working poor in Chile during the period 1990-2013 Luis Maldonado, Joaquin Prieto and Juan Carlos Feres 23. In-work poverty in South Africa: The impact of income sharing in the presence of high unemployment Kezia Lilenstein, Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt 24. Changes in the demographic antecedents of poverty among workers in Israel, 1991-2011 Asaf Levanon and Evgeny Saburov 25. In-work poverty in three East Asian welfare states Chung-Yang Yeh and Jen-Der Lue 26. Working poor in the informal economy: Material deprivation among female sex workers in India David Brady, Sharon Oselin and Kim M. Blankenship Index

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Book SynopsisThis incisive book addresses the history of poverty in the US, investigating how those in need have been understood and governed during the last 70 years. John Macnicol launches a multi-faceted analysis of government attitudes to welfare and 'dependency', highlighting the impact on the poorest groups of American society. Poverty in the US is explored through the eyes of prominent liberals, including Gunnar Myrdal, John Kenneth Galbraith and Michael Harrington, in times of economic growth and recession, from the New Deal to the rise of neoliberalism. Macnicol also examines the career and ascendancy of the leading conservative, Charles Murray, and his contention that America suffered a growing 'underclass' largely created by over-generous welfare. Through analysis of the mechanisms and output of leading conservative think-tanks in the late twentieth century, the author identifies the key features of historic and contemporary discussions related to poverty and dependency in the US and the dynamic changes of American attitudes to its poorest constituents. A timely discussion for a period of economic cynicism, this book is crucial reading for scholars of social policy, particularly those examining the history of impoverishment and debates relating to poverty and dependency. Students of social policy, sociology and economics will also benefit from its insights into historic US government attitudes and reactions to poverty.Trade Review‘What was the underclass debate in the United States, and what impact did it have on social policy there? By exploring how the debate evolved in the second half of the twentieth-century, Macnicol presents a strong argument for the role of ideas about poverty and dependency in the rise of neoliberalism in the United States, and a valuable critique of the ideas of the leading figures of the movement. The book's greatest strength lies in the breadth of material covered, and the engagement with the key arguments of relevant authors, both conservatives and liberals.’ -- Mickey Conn, Social Policy & Administration‘Recommended. Students of political thought will find Macnicol's interpretations thought provoking.’ -- R S Rycroft, CHOICETable of ContentsContents: 1. The American Welfare State from the 1930s to the 1960s 2. The 1960s 3. The socio-economic background in the 1970s and 1980s 4. The conservative revival 5. Charles Murray and the ‘underclass’ 6. The modern ‘underclass’ debate

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Book SynopsisOn the 80th anniversary of Beveridge’s report on the ‘Five Giants’ confronting societal progress in the 1940s, this innovative book examines the ‘New Giants’ confronting us today: inequality, preventable mortality, the crisis of democracy, job quality, and environmental degradation. Ian Greener uses Qualitative Comparative Analysis and cluster analysis across 24 countries to analyse which countries are the highest performing in relation to each of the New Giants, and what they have in common.The book indicates that confronting the New Giants requires more participative modes of governance, as well as a greater commitment to redistributing wealth and achieving higher levels of education. Greener also highlights how higher levels of globalization, so long as they are combined with these factors, can be compatible with confronting the New Giants. The book further considers how these factors combined in countries with lower levels of mortality in the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic.This will be critical reading for social policy and politics scholars and policy makers interested in comparative analysis. The clear explanation of the research methods used in the book will be useful to advanced level students and researchers in the field.Trade Review‘Greener, in his great book, is actually saying that we live in a completely new age, but its pains and joys are very closely related to historical experience and the achievements that humanity has realised. As a response to a new situation and to a turning point in history, there is no need to look for completely new tools. It is only necessary to identify precisely the giants to which we must respond and, at the same time, examine what tools to use to respond to these giants as they are, which to modify and which to use in a completely new way. The book and its presence in libraries will certainly be appreciated not only by students and researchers, but also by anyone who is concerned with the conception or use of any sociopolitical tool - in short, all those who come into contact with social protection in the broadest sense of the word, whether as providers or recipients.’ -- European Journal of Social Security‘There is much in this book that will be of interest to social policy scholars who will commend the au­thor's attempt to examine current social challenges in the historical context of the Beveridge Report. The book is well-written, and its methodology and statistical analysis are clearly explained. In addi­tion, the author raises a number of critically important issues which have not been adequately addressed by social policy writers. ... an ambitious and welcome addition to the literature which deserves to be widely read.’BR> -- Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare‘How can Beveridge’s “Five Giants” be rearticulated as key social problems in contemporary society? Which countries do better than others in responding to these problems and why? These are important questions, and Ian Greener’s book addresses them with a fascinating and original analysis, making use of a combination of comparative methods which help to illustrate the different ways in which countries deal with societal challenges. This book is a “must read” for all those interested in the role of social policies and institutions in modern welfare states.’ -- Jochen Clasen, The University of Edinburgh, UK‘This text is essential reading for the study of comparative social policy. It explores and accounts for the five “New Giants” for 24 developed nations using the relatively novel approach of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). It is the right book at the right time by the right person.’ -- Martin Powell, University of Birmingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Beveridge Report today 2. The New Giants 3. The method in Welfare States in the 21st Century 4. Inequality 5. Preventable mortality 6. The crisis of democracy 7. Job quality 8. Environmental degradation Conclusion to Welfare States in the 21st Century Epilogue: the New Giants and COVID-19 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSkills and inequality have long been a central theme in analyses of social structure and economic development. A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality offers an insightful cross-disciplinary framework for research on how unequal living conditions form, persist and change in interplay with human skill formation and development.Drawing on prominent new advances in the field, this incisive Research Agenda builds a forward-thinking framework for research. Spanning an extensive eighteen chapters, each examining a specific but major aspect of the general theme of skills and inequality, the book provides a comprehensive overview of links between the two. Against the backdrop of established insights from related but separate fields of inquiry, including economics, sociology, demography, human resource management, political science, philosophy and psychology, the Research Agenda presents an exciting overview of recent advances in analyses of skills and inequality.Opening vistas for future research based on extensive literature reviews and new findings, this Research Agenda offers compact, ground-breaking essays for students, policy makers, and advanced researchers in many disciplines including social policy, business management, and employment relations.Trade Review‘While the concept of skill is central to explanations of inequality, disciplinary boundaries have hampered a full understanding of this relationship. This timely volume fills the gap by bringing together insights from experts in diverse disciplines that together provide the basis for an exciting research framework on this vital topic.’ -- Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US‘If you want to understand how differences in skills and power jointly create social inequality, this is the book for you. Leading international scholars present the new synthesis on how education, skills, jobs and earnings are linked.’ -- Daniel Oesch, University of Lausanne, Switzerland‘This book offers original, multidisciplinary insights on the conceptualisation of skill and robust empirical evidence on how skills are formed, developed, utilised, rewarded and maintained across countries with diverse institutional arrangements. It will enrich our understanding of skills and inequality for decades to come.’ -- Ying Zhou, Surrey Business School, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Skills and inequality – Introduction and overview 1 Michael Tåhlin 2 Skills, class and gender 19 Charlotta Magnusson and Michael Tåhlin 3 Culture, skills, job tasks and inequality 37 George Farkas 4 Skills and structural change 51 Johan Westerman and Edvin Syk 5 Skills and occupational sex segregation in Europe 65 Amanda Almstedt Valldor and Karin Halldén 6 Skills and adult educational choice: Gender (in) equality in a new form of Swedish vocational education 85 Margarita Chudnovskaya, Erik Nylander, and Rebecca Ye 7 Occupational skills and subjective social status 103 Anton B. Andersson and Arvid Lindh 8 Skill and job quality: Polarisation in a ‘liberal’ economy? 121 Duncan Gallie 9 Occupational skills, ethnic stratification, and labor market assimilation across immigrant generations 145 Are Skeie Hermansen, Jon Horgen Friberg, and Arnfinn H. Midtbøen 10 Can work protect against age-related decline of cognitive skills?: An empirical test of the use-it-or-lose-it hypothesis 161 Mark Levels and Rolf van der Velden 11 Reconceptualizing human capital 177 Paula England and Nancy Folbre 12 Parental education–occupation matching and offspring earnings 195 Dirk Witteveen 13 Skill and power at work: A Relational Inequality perspective 215 Dustin Avent-Holt and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey 14 The meaning of job-required education 231 Michael J. Handel 12 Skills and educational systems 255 Heike Solga and Herman G. van de Werfhorst 16 Skills and collective wage bargaining 271 Christian Kjellström and Irene Wennemo 17 Skills and macro-level economic inequality 287 Tomas Korpi, Michael Tåhlin and Johan Westerman 18 Skilled work and ethics: How can we expand opportunities for meaningful work? 303 Andrea Veltman Index 317

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Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism. It traces the development of Ribbonism from its origins in the Defender movement of the 1790s until the latter part of the century when the remnants of the Ribbon tradition found solace in the quasi-constitutional affinities of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Placing Ribbonism firmly within Ireland’s long tradition of collective action and protest, this book shows that, owing to its diversity and adaptability, it shared similarities, but also stood apart from, the many rural redresser groups of the period and showed remarkable longevity not matched by its contemporaries. The book describes the wider context of Catholic struggles for improved standing, explores traditions and networks for association, and it describes external impressions. Drawing on rich archives in the form of state surveillance records, ‘show trial’ proceedings and press reportage, the book shows that Ribbonism was a sophisticated and durable underground network drawing together various strands of the rural and urban Catholic populace in Ireland and Britain. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Its Diaspora is a fascinating study that demonstrates Ribbonism operated more widely than previous studies have revealed.Trade ReviewReviews'An important contribution to the corpus of scholarship on secret societies, violence and politics in nineteenth-century Ireland.'Jay R. Roszman, Irish Historical Studies 'This is an excellent study, meticulously researched and lucidly written. The considerable detail adds to the interest and value of the work by opening up avenues for further research into this elusive and yet very real world of Irish subversives transnationally in the nineteenth century.'Maura Cronin, Studia Hibernica'A thorough excavation of not just the perceptions of Ribbonism but also the workings of the “official mind” in Dublin Castle during the first few decades of the nineteenth century.'John O’Donovan, Irish Studies Review'Hughes and MacRaild’s study on Ribbonism is to be commended for recalibrating our gaze towards these too often neglected decades, and years, and the lower class voices which filled them.'Kerron Ó Luain, Dublin Review of Books'An outstanding work of scholarship, one that is authoritative, substantial and carefully constructed...The work makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Irish secret societies, specifically Ribbonism, and to a whole range of characters and forces associated with such bodies... Stylish and engaging, Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth‐Century Ireland and its Diaspora is strongly recommended.'Laurence Geary, History: The Journal of the Historical AssociationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Defining and Refining Ribbonism1. Out of Defenderism: Ribbonism in the Early Nineteenth Century2. Ribbon Networks in the 1820s: A Revolutionary Moment3. Ribbonism, O’Connellism and Catholicism in the 1820s and 1830s4. The Transnational World of Richard Jones, 1835-425. Catholic Collectivism at Home and Abroad during the Famine Period6. Ribbonmen in their Urban Communities during the 1850s7. From Ribbonism to Hibernianism in the Post-Famine Diaspora8. Ribbonmen, Fenians and Hibernians: Clashes and Convergences from the 1870sConclusion: Ribbonism: ‘An Accretion of Mythical Subject Matter’?

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Book SynopsisCovering global, comparative, and single-country contexts, this Research Handbook presents wide-ranging, cutting-edge research on poverty and inequality. It maps out international trends in poverty and inequality and explores the key conceptual and operational frameworks, practical analyses, and policy applications and outcomes.Udaya R. Wagle brings together 27 substantive chapters with research and analyses from a diverse body of established authorities and researchers to create a forum and examine the complex and often under-explored issues related to poverty and inequality. Using empirical data and insights from the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, the individual chapters examine and explain how economic and social policies and programs have affected poverty and inequality. While unprecedented economic progress in the past few decades has improved standards of living across the globe, the Handbook concludes that creating a just and fair society requires policies that go beyond expanding economic opportunities.Providing a comprehensive coverage of the research and analysis into poverty and inequality, this incisive Handbook will be an invaluable reference text for students and scholars of economics, sociology, social policy, and comparative and development studies. The practical insights into policies and programs covered here will also benefit policymakers and practitioners interested in reducing poverty and inequality globally.Table of ContentsContents: Preface xiv 1 Introduction to poverty and inequality 1 Udaya R. Wagle PART I CONCEPTUAL AND OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORKS 2 Poverty measurement: Evolving concepts and measurement frameworks 15 Udaya R. Wagle 3 Absolute and relative income poverty measurement: a survey 36 Benoit Decerf 4 Cumulative deprivation: identification and aggregation 52 Koen Decancq 5 Concepts and measurements of economic inequality 68 Udaya R. Wagle 6 Feminist approaches to poverty and gender inequality 88 Randy Albelda PART II MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS 7 Are women poorer? A cross-country analysis of gender differentials in multidimensional poverty 103 Francesco Burchi and Daniele Malerba 8 Trends in multidimensional poverty in Latin America 118 María Emma Santos 9 Examination of the effects of variation in the measurement of multidimensional poverty in the United States 138 Roger White and Lindley Lee-Niegas 10 Multidimensional poverty in Hong Kong: measurements and implications 172 Siu Ming Chan 11 Poverty, social mobility, and the middle class: evidence from South Africa 186 Simone Schotte 12 Multidimensional poverty in India: a regional level analysis in the context of Sustainable Development Goals 205 Pinaki Das, Bibek Paria, and Shama Firdaush 13 Consistent, dense measures of inequality using grouped data: a global approach 224 James Galbraith and Jaehee Choi 14 The possible impact of changes in demography on economic inequality in Europe 245 M. Azhar Hussain and Bent Greve 15 Workers’ social capital and employment outcomes: the case of MENA countries 261 Jieun Lee and Vladimir Hlasny 16 Determinants of intimate partner violence in Nepal 282 Alice Louise Kassens 17 The dynamics of poverty and inequality in Chile and Honduras over the past three decades 305 Carlos Villalobos PART III POLICY APPLICATIONS AND OUTCOMES 18 Social protection, poverty, and inequality: global patterns and changes 323 Udaya R. Wagle 19 Social assistance in low- and middle-income countries 350 Armando Barrientos 20 Poverty and inequality in European welfare states 367 Bent Greve 21 Poverty in Mexico: trends, determinants, and policies 378 Jorge Garza-Rodriguez 22 Is growth pro-poor or pro-rich? The role of national pro-poor targeted programmes in Vietnam 392 Phuc Van Phan and Martin O’Brien 23 Practices of microfinance and poverty reduction in Bangladesh 408 Mohammad Shahjahan Chowdhury 24 Income and energy usage in developing economies: using the case of Ghana 422 Kenneth Ofori-Boateng, Williams Ohemeng, Innocent Tetteh, and Elvis Kwame Agyapong 25 International migration for poverty alleviation? The neoliberal element in the debates on migration for development and poverty alleviation 439 Meltem Yılmaz Şener 26 Measuring the extra cost of disability: approaches, challenges, and prospects 453 Vickie L. Edwards 27 Concluding observations 467 Udaya R. Wagle Index 471

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Book SynopsisCurrently, works on poverty constitute only a small part of contemporary economic research; however, the field of poverty and deprivation is undoubtedly one rising in popularity and relevance. Encompassing chapters that address both unidimensional and multidimensional poverty, this timely Research Handbook explores all aspects of poverty and deprivation measurement, not only detailing broad issues but also scrutinising specific domains and aspects of poverty, such as health, energy and housing.Succinct and highly focused, it brings together a diverse range of authors to employ a combination of theoretical and empirical methodologies to offer well-rounded explorations of complex topics. Expansive in scope, the Research Handbook includes case studies that examine poverty across the globe, with a particular focus on covering Africa, China, India and Latin America, producing a comprehensive, rigorous and interdisciplinary resource. The Research Handbook will be an invaluable resource for not only economics researchers and graduate students but also policy makers dealing with issues related to poverty and deprivation. Chapters are designed to provide the reader with foundational knowledge of a topic that they can subsequently deepen by exploring the cited literature.Trade Review‘Jacques Silber’s Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation is a monumental achievement. Its 67 chapters – plus introduction and epilogue – cover virtually every important topic in the contemporary measurement and economic analysis of poverty, with every single chapter written by leading experts in the field.’ -- Francisco H. G. Ferreira, London School of Economics, UKThis Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, edited by Professor Jaques Silber, is unique in its structure and in the breadth and depth of topics covered. True to the old phrase, good things come in small packages, the Handbook presents bite sized chapters imparting the wisdom of over a hundred eminent researchers in this field. The Handbook is encyclopedic as it covers: uni- and multidimensional measures of poverty; poverty in specific domains including health, education, energy, housing and water; poverty among children, adults and the elderly; national, regional and global poverty; and, finally, interrelationships between poverty and economic insecurity, gender, mortality and inequality of opportunity. The Handbook also includes specialized statistical topics such as small area estimation; Bayesian approach; and standard errors associated with poverty measures. Researchers, analysts, policy makers and graduate students will find the treasure of information invaluable and the Handbook indispensable. -- D.S. Prasada Rao, The University of Queensland, Australia‘Jacques Silber’s Handbook constitutes a veritable intellectual treat to all those interested in poverty measurement.' -- From the epilogue by Nora Lustig, Tulane University, US‘This is an impressive volume in its broad coverage of poverty analysis from different perspectives. It should be useful for all who are working in this area and practitioners interested in the practical applications of theoretical models of poverty analysis, particularly, for policy purposes.' -- Satya R. Chakravarty, Indian Statistical Institute, and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India‘Jacques Silber deserves much credit for assembling a comprehensive and informative collection of papers on measuring poverty and extreme inequality by a first-rate and diverse collection of authors ... It will long influence the evolution of the field.’ -- from the foreword by James J. Heckman, University of Chicago, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by James J. Heckman xix Introduction to the Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation 1 Jacques Silber PART I UNIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY AND DEPRIVATION Section I.1 Conceptual Issues 1 The income and consumption approach to unidimensional poverty measurement 8 Massimo Aprea and Michele Raitano 2 The subjective approach to uni- and multidimensional poverty 19 Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell 3 Relative income and the relative deprivation hypothesis 28 Elena Bárcena-Martín and Beatriz Benítez Aurioles 4 Income-dependent equivalence scales and choice theory: implications for poverty measurement 39 Christos Koulovatianos and Carsten Schröder 5 On the poverty line 50 Gaurav Datt and Peter Lanjouw 6 Measuring global poverty 60 Andrea Brandolini and John Micklewright 7 The axiomatic approach to unidimensional poverty 70 Casilda Lasso de la Vega 8 Poverty measurement and stochastic dominance 82 Buhong Zheng 9 Measuring poverty with an ordered-categorical variable 95 Suman Seth Section I.2 Statistical Issues 10 Measuring unidimensional poverty: a review of the inference literature 106 Chiara Gigliarano and Pietro Muliere 11 The recentered influence function and unidimensional poverty measurement 118 Carlos Gradín 12 Small area methodology for measuring poverty at a local level 129 Monica Pratesi and Francesco Schirripa Spagnolo 13 Regression-based imputation for poverty measurement in data-scarce settings 141 Hai-Anh H. Dang and Peter F. Lanjouw 14 Poverty measurement under income and price dispersion 151 Christophe Muller 15 Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty 161 Lidia Ceriani, Vladimir Hlasny and Paolo Verme 16 Mixture models and poverty measurement 171 Gordon Anderson, Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli PART II INCOME POVERTY OVER TIME 17 Chronic poverty measures 181 Aaron Nicholas and Ranjan Ray 18 Measuring poverty persistence 192 Alessio Fusco and Philippe Van Kerm PART III MEASURING POVERTY IN SPECIFIC DOMAINS AND FOR PARTICULAR POPULATION SUBGROUPS 19 Health poverty 202 Bénédicte Apouey and David Madden 20 Towards a right to learn: concepts and measurement of global education poverty 212 Michelle Kaffenberger, Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo 21 Energy poverty 224 Mara Hammerle, Rohan Best and Pundarik Mukhopadhaya 22 Food insecurity and poverty 234 Kenneth Harttgen and Johannes Seiler 23 Water poverty 243 Tomson Ogwang and Danny I. Cho 24 Housing poverty 252 Luis Ayala and Carolina Navarro 25 Health insurance and poverty measurement 262 Dahlia K. Remler and Sanders Korenman 26 Child malnutrition 273 Mohamad A. Khaled, Paul Makdissi and Myra Yazbeck 27 Financial exclusion and the importance of financial literacy 283 María José Roa and Alejandra Villegas 28 Measuring child poverty 298 Lucia Ferrone and Alessandro Carraro 29 Elderly poverty and its measurement 307 Yoko Niimi and Charles Yuji Horioka 30 Poverty of time 316 Ajit Zacharias 31 The decomposition of unidimensional poverty measures 326 Oihana Aristondo PART IV MEASURING MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY Section IV.1 Conceptual Issues 32 The Alkire and Foster approach to measuring multidimensional poverty 344 Maria Emma Santos 33 An alternative to Alkire and Foster’s framework for measuring multidimensional deprivation 355 Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu 34 The European Union’s approach to multidimensional poverty measurement 368 Anne-Catherine Guio 35 Complements, substitutes and multidimensional deprivation measurement 378 Iñaki Permanyer 36 Prioritarianism and poverty measurement 388 Kristof Bosmans, Luc Lauwers and Erwin Ooghe 37 Multidimensional poverty measurement and preferences 401 François Maniquet 38 The measurement of asset and wealth poverty 410 Francisco Azpitarte and Gaston Yalonetzky 39 Multidimensional poverty and deprivation: using individual versus household data 420 José Espinoza-Delgado and Sebastian Vollmer 40 Poverty measurement for forcibly displaced populations: challenges and prospects of a new field 430 Paolo Verme 41 Robustness methods in the counting approach to multidimensional poverty measurement 439 Gaston Yalonetzky and Francisco Azpitarte 42 The decomposition of multidimensional poverty measures 450 Martyna Kobus Section IV.2 Statistical Issues 43 Statistical issues in multidimensional poverty measurement: redundancy analysis 463 Paola Ballon 44 The Bayesian approach to poverty measurement 475 Michel Lubrano and Zhou Xun Section IV.3 Multivariate Approaches to Poverty Measurement 45 The fuzzy approach to poverty measurement 489 Gianni Betti, Antonella D’Agostino, Achille Lemmi and Laura Neri 46 Efficiency analysis and poverty measurement 501 Gordon Anderson 47 The order of acquisition of assets and deprivation 511 Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber PART V POVERTY MEASUREMENT AND RELATED TOPICS 48 Measuring vulnerability to poverty: a unified framework 523 Indranil Dutta and Ajit Mishra 49 Economic insecurity and poverty 535 Olga Cantó and Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz 50 Engel curves, spending diversity and welfare measurement 544 Andreas Chai and Elena Stepanova 51 Gender and poverty measurement 553 Sarah Bradshaw and Brian Linneker 52 Poverty and inequality of opportunity 563 Xavi Ramos and Dirk Van de gaer 53 Mortality and poverty measurement 572 Benoit Decerf PART VI PRO-POOR GROWTH 54 Pro-poor growth 583 Nanak Kakwani 55 Pro-poor growth in a multidimensional context 594 Florent Bresson PART VII POVERTY MEASUREMENT AROUND THE WORLD 56 Poverty in Europe 605 Marek Kośny 57 A comparison of income poverty measurement in Canada and the United States 613 Thesia I. Garner, Shelly Phipps and Trudi Renwick 58 Poverty in Russia: a bird’s-eye view of trends and dynamics in the past quarter of a century 627 Kseniya Abanokova and Hai-Anh H. Dang 59 Poverty in China 636 Guanghua Wan, Yuan Zhang and Xiaoshan Hu 60 Poverty in Japan 646 Kouhei Komamura and Kuriko Watanabe 61 Poverty in India 654 Shatakshee Dhongde 62 Poverty and inequality in Australia, 2001–2018 663 Alessio Rebechi and Nicholas Rohde 63 Poverty in Latin America 673 Leonardo Gasparini, Maria Emma Santos and Leopoldo Tornarolli 64 Poverty in Western and Central Asia 685 Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Maria Fernanda Gonzalez Icaza 65 Poverty in Southeast Asia 696 Duangkamon Chotikapanich and William Griffiths 66 Levels and trends in multidimensional poverty in Algeria, Iraq and Tunisia, using a counting-based approach 710 Valérie Bérenger 67 Poverty in Africa 722 Almas Heshmati and Mekonnen Bersisa Epilogue by Nora Lustig 733 Index 737

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