Poverty and precarity Books
Ignatius Press Happy are You Poor The Simple Life and Spiritual
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St Martin's Press Manifesto for a Moral Revolution
Book SynopsisAn instant classic. Arianna HuffingtonWill inspire people from across the political spectrum. Jonathan HaidtLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, an essential shortlist of leadership ideas for everyone who wants to do good in this world, from Jacqueline Novogratz, author of the New York Times bestseller The Blue Sweater and founder and CEO of Acumen.In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the world tackles poverty, few had heard of impact investingAcumen's practice of doing well by doing good. Nineteen years later, there's been a seismic shift in how corporate boards and other stakeholders evaluate businesses: impact investment is not only morally defensible but now also economically advantageous, even necessary. Still, it isn't easy to reach a success that includes profits as well as
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Henry Holt & Company Live to See the Day
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Hardpress Publishing The House on Henry Street
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Random House USA Inc behind the beautiful forevers Life Death and Hope
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.”—People“A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.”—Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • NewsdayIn this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of fami
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Women and Poverty
Book SynopsisWomen and Poverty analyzes the social and structural factors that contribute to, and legitimize, class inequity and women''s poverty. In doing so, the book provides a unique documentation of women''s experiences of poverty and classism at the individual and interpersonal levels. Provides readers with a critical analysis of the social and structural factors that contribute to women''s poverty Uses a multidisciplinary approach to bring together new research and theory from social psychology, policy studies, and critical and feminist scholarship Documents women''s experiences of poverty and classism at the interpersonal and institutional levels Discusses policy analysis for reducing poverty and social inequality Table of ContentsAbout the Author ix 1 Women and Poverty: An Ongoing Crisis 1 2 Structural Sources of Women’s Poverty and Homelessness 16 3 Beliefs about Poverty, Wealth, and Social Class: Implications for Intergroup Relations and Social Policy 40 4 Welfare Reform at 15 and Beyond: How Are Low-Income Women and Families Faring? 70 5 Low-Income Women, Critical Resistance, and Welfare Rights Activism 104 Co-authored with Wendy M. Limbert and Roberta A. Downing 6 Women and Economic Justice: Pitfalls, Possibilities, and Promise 140 References 159 Index 192
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Johns Hopkins University Press Poverty Inequality and Democracy
Book SynopsisOrenstein, Marc F. Plattner, Charles Simkins, Alejandro Toledo, Ilcheong YiTrade ReviewThis text is well-crafted and is a challenging, thoughtful, and provocative treatise on the topic... This book offers a welcome, fresh insight to the consequences of democratic transitions in a variety of regions. Book Bargains and Previews Starting from the phenomenon of growing inequality in much of the world, the book looks at the difference between poverty and inequality and the political effects of each of these on democracy, including the rise of authoritarian populism... Recommended for students of developing nations in general and Latin America in particular. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: What Are the Issues?Chapter 1. Dealing with InequalityChapter 2. Does Electoral Democracy Boost Economic Equality?Chapter 3. Why Democracies FailChapter 4. Latin America: Democracy with DevelopmentPart II: Latin America and Eastern EuropeChapter 5. The Latin American ExperienceChapter 6. Aiding Latin America's PoorChapter 7. Postcommunist Welfare StatesChapter 8. East-Central Europe's QuandaryChapter 9. How Regions DifferPart III: Africa and AsiaChapter 10. Growth Without Prosperity in AfricaChapter 11. South African DisparitiesChapter 12. Growth and Hunger in IndiaChapter 13. "Mixed Governance" and Welfare in South KoreaIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Rethinking Education and Poverty
Book SynopsisAlthough there is no simple solution to inequality, this book makes clear that education offers numerous exciting possibilities for progress.Table of ContentsPreface1. A Liminal Moment2. A Brief History of [Contemporary] Time3. Demographic Disruption4. Economic Disruption5. Cultural Disruption6. No Line on the Horizon7. Toward a New Marketplace8. Reimagine the Future9. BreakpointAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Poverty Welfare and Public Policy
Book SynopsisThis volume includes a selection of seminal articles on poverty andwelfate in the United States from the Journal of Policy Analysisand Management considered to be one of the leading forumsfor the exploration of poverty and welfare presented in asingle volume.Table of Contents1. American Poverty. The measure and meaning of poverty. How to Improve Poverty Measurement in the United States, Rebecca Blank (2008). Reconciliation of Income and Consumption Data in Poverty Measurement, Richard Bavier (2008). The Relationship Between Income and Material Hardship,James X. Sullivan, Lesley Turner, and Sheldon Danziger (2008). The Occurrence of Poverty Across the Life Cycle: Evidence from the PSID, Mark Rank and Thomas Hirschl (2001). A Re-Examination of Welfare States and Inequality in Rich Nations: How In-Kind Transfers and Indirect Taxes Change the Story, Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding (2006). The demographics of poverty. For Richer or for Poorer: Marriage as an Anti-Poverty Strategy, Adam Thomas and Isabel Sawhill (2002). Black Employment Problems: New Evidence, Old Questions, Harry Holzer (1994). Declining Employment Among Young Black Less-Educated Men: The Role of Incarceration and Child Support, Harry Holzer, Paul Offner, and Elaine Sorensen (2005). Labor Market Experiences of Low-Income Black Women in Middle-Class Suburbs: Evidence from a Survey of Gautreaux Program Participants Susan Popkin, James Rosenbaum, and Patricia Meaden (1993). Moving Into and Out of Poor Urban Areas,Edward Gramlich, Deborah Laren, and Naomi Sealand (1992). 2. The Road to Welfare Reform. Welfare dependency. Determinants of Initial Entry onto Welfare by Young Women, Marieka Klawitter, Robert D. Plotnick, and Mark Evan Edwards (2000). The Interaction between Single Mothers' Living Arrangements and Welfare Participation," Rebecca London (2000). Moving Up, Moving Out, or Going Nowhere? A Study of the Employment Patterns of Young Women and the Implications for Welfare Mothers, LaDonna Pavetti and Gregory Acs (2001). Mandatory vs. voluntary programs. Welfare Reform and Mandatory Versus Voluntary Work: Policy Issue or Management Problem? Mary Jo Bane (1989). Should Workfare be Mandatory? What Research Says," Lawrence Mead (1990). Rejoinder to Mead, Laurence Lynn (1990). Can a Voluntary Welfare Program Change the Behavior of Welfare Recipients? New Evidence from Washington State's Family Independence Program (FIP)," Duane Leigh (1995). Four decades of experimentation. Fostering Research Excellence and Impacting Policy and Practice: The Welfare Reform Story, Judith Gueron (2003). Demonstration Evaluations and Cost Neutrality: Using Caseload Models to Determine the Federal Cost Neutrality of New Jersey's REACH Demonstration, Steven Garasky and Burt Barnow (1992). The Budgetary Implications of Welfare Reform: Lessons from Four State Initiatives," David Long (1988). 3. TANF and Its Aftermath. Did welfare reform "succeed"? Alternative Measures of Economic Success among TANF Participants: Avoiding Poverty, Hardship, and Dependence on Public Assistance, Maria Cancian and Daniel Meyer (2004). Why Welfare Reform Succeeded, Lawrence Mead (2007a). TANF's Results are More Mixed than is Often Understood, Sharon Parrott and Arloc Sherman (2007a). Response to Parrott and Sherman, Mead (2007b). Response to Mead, Parrott and Sherman (2007b). Welfare vs. work. Incentives, Challenges, and Dilemmas of TANF: A Case Study, Barbara Wolfe (2002). Does It Pay to Move From Welfare to Work?, Sheldon Danziger, Colleen M. Heflin, Mary E. Corcoran, Elizabeth Oltmans, and Hui-Chen Wang (2002). Does it Pay to Move From Welfare to Work? A Comment on Danziger, Heflin, Corcoran, Oltmans, and Wang, Robert Moffitt and Katie Winder (2005). Does It Pay to Move from Welfare to Work? Reply to Robert Moffitt and Katie Winder, Sheldon Danziger and Hui-Chen Wang (2005). Child support and father's work. Child Support Enforcement: Programs and Policies, Impacts and Questions, Maureen Pirog and Kathleen Ziol-Guest (2006). Effective Child Support Policy for Low-Income Families: Evidence From Street Level Research, Maureen Waller and Robert Plotnick (2001). 4. How Much Does Research Matter? Congress Writes a Law: Research and Welfare Reform, Haskins (1991). Expertise, Advocacy, and Deliberation: Lessons from Welfare Reform,Mary Jo Bane (2001). The Dissemination and Utilization of Welfare-to-Work Experiments in State Policymaking, David Greenberg, Marvin Mandell, and Matthew Onstott (2000). Conclusion. From the Great Society to Continuous Improvement Government: Shifting from ‘Does it Work?' to ‘What Would Make it Better?' Douglas Besharov.
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Herald Press (VA) Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End
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Basic Books Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long
Book SynopsisHow essential workers? fight for better jobs during the pandemic revolutionized US labor politicsThroughout the coronavirus pandemic, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, attracting a level of support unseen in decades. This explosion of labor unrest seemed sudden to many. But Essential reveals that American workers had simmered in discontent long before their anger boiled over.Decades of austerity, sociologist Jamie K. McCallum shows, have left frontline workers vulnerable to employer abuse, lacking government protections, and increasingly furious. Through firsthand research conducted as the pandemic unfolded, McCallum traces the evolution of workers? militancy, showing how their struggles for safer workplaces, better pay and health care, and the right to unionize have benefitted all Americans and spurred a radical new phase of the labor movement. This is essential reading for understanding the past, present, and future of the working class.
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Hachette Books Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to
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Vehicule Press Punching and Kicking: Leaving Canada's Toughest
Book SynopsisPeople don’t leave the Point, even if they move far away. Or at least that’s how it seems to journalist Kathy Dobson. Growing up in the 1970s in Point St. Charles, an industrial slum in Montreal, she sees how people get trapped in the neighborhood. In this sequel to the highly praised With a Closed Fist, Dobson shares her journey of trying to escape from what was once described as the toughest neighborhood in Canada. Kathy and her five sisters, raised by their single mother, deal with slum landlords, “pervy uncles,” and their father—a mostly absent police officer who does occasional work on the side for the local mob. As Kathy grows up and starts attending college outside the Point, she has to learn how to survive in a new environment where problems aren’t solved by a good punch to the head.
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Exile Editions Dignity in Exile
Book SynopsisSituated on a toxic leaf composting facility and the Portland International Airport is Dignity Village, the first city-recognized shantytown and a place the dejected, jobless, and impoverished outcasts of society call home. A powerful study of homelessness and the human spirit, this photo-ethnographic account follows the villagers for six months as they fight to overcome lives beleaguered with abuse, incarceration, addiction, mental health issues, and the stigma of poverty. The result is a stunning portraiture of the people who live there, explored through high-quality reporting, remarkable photography, and an honest visual representation of the flame of dignity that burns deep inside those in exile.
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University of Massachusetts Press President of the Other Americas: Robert Kennedy
Book SynopsisRobert Kennedy’s abbreviated run for the presidency in 1968 has assumed almost mythical proportions in American memory. His campaign has been romanticised because of its tragic end, but also because of the foreign and domestic crises that surrounded it. Yet while most media coverage initially focused on Kennedy’s opposition to the Vietnam War as the catalyst of his candidacy, another issue commanded just as much of his attention. That issue was poverty. Stumping across the country, he repeated the same antipoverty themes before college students in Kansas and Indiana, loggers and women factory workers in Oregon, farmers in Nebraska, and business groups in New York. Although his calls to action sometimes met with apathy, he refused to modify his message. “If they don’t care,” he told one aide, “the hell with them.” As Edward R. Schmitt demonstrates, Kennedy’s concern with the problem of poverty was not new. Although critics at the time accused him of opportunistically veering left in order to outflank an unpopular president, a closer look at the historical record reveals a steady evolution rather than a dramatic shift in his politics.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Women Reformed, Women Empowered: Poor Mothers and
Book SynopsisRevealing stories about the ways in which social programs help and harm women struggling to change their livesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. Prelude: The North Country 2. Two Wars on Poverty Part II: Women Reformed 3. Taking Control of Everyday Life 4. Making Good Work 5. The American Dream Part III: Women Empowered 6. Power and Ceremony 7. The Bureaucratization of North Country Head Start 8. Defiance...and Withdrawal 9. Devotion, Social Class, and the Union 10. The Limits on/of Empowerment: What Is to Be Done? References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Understanding Mainland Puerto Rican Pov
Book SynopsisFor too long the study of impoverished Puerto Ricans living in the fifty states has been undermined by the use of broad generalizations. Puerto Ricans have been statistically grouped with all Latinos, studied with models developed for understanding African-American life, and written about as if New York's Puerto Rican community was the only such community worthy of detailed study. This book changes all that. In this important new work, Susan Baker looks beyond the traditional models and rewrites the origins, current state, and reasons behind Puerto Rican poverty.The book tells the story of how Puerto Ricans have left the Rustbelt cities to return to the island or to seek job opportunities elsewhere. Those left behind are predominantly poor women with dependents who live in segregated neighborhoods with little chance of finding low-skilled jobs because of competition from non-citizen, non-politicized workers.In her alternative explanation, the author presents data from across the country and puts forth an explanation that is grounded in Puerto Rican history and sensitive not only to the interconnectedness of the island and mainland population, but also the increasing distress faced by Puerto Rican women and the sad truth that Puerto Rican citizenship in this country is a second class one.Trade Review"This book greatly enhances our understanding of Puerto Ricans by describing their history, and social, and labor experiences in the South, Midwest, and West, as well as New York City. In doing so, it enriches our knowledge about Puerto Ricans across the U.S. in a way that no other book does. Baker effectively highlights how the Puerto Rican experience is different from that of other Hispanic Americans. It is worth noting that the book is one of the first to utilize the results from the 2000 Census."—Tony Carnes, Chair, Seminar on Contents and Methods in the Social Sciences, Columbia University, and director of the Research Institute for New Americans"Susan Baker has written a noteworthy volume. To her extensive personal experience she brings an academic perspective that is thorough and well thought out. Much has been written about the Puerto Rican Diaspora focusing on New York City. Baker contributes to our understanding by tackling internal migration and terms of incorporation that vary from place to place. She makes a further contribution by comparing this population to other Latinos, exploring the role of segregation (including a cogent discussion of the dissimilarity index), and the impact of the larger U.S. economic structure."—Alvaro L. Nieves, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Wheaton College (Ill.)"This illuminating examination of poverty within the Puerto Rican population in mainland U.S.A. provides a readable resource with many applications. Baker carefully employs a methodology to examine Puerto Ricans that acknowledges the regional, class, gender, and generational diversity that exists within this group, as well as emphasizing the necessity of studying all Latino groups individually and within their own particular contexts. This work is significant not only for scholars in Puerto Rican studies but also for anyone seeking a better understanding of the distinct Latino populations within the United States."—Edwin David Aponte, Assistant Professor of Christianity and Culture, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist UniversityTable of ContentsPrefacePart I: Viewing Puerto Ricans as Hispanic1. Hispanics in the United States2. The Journeys of Mexicans and Cubans3. The Puerto Rican journey4. How the Journeys EndPart II: Viewing Puerto Ricans Across the United States5. How Puerto Ricans Fore from Place to Place6. Infernal Migration, A Response?7. How Segregation Fits In8. Puerto Rican Women and the Labor ForcePart III: Viewing Puerto Ricans Within the US. Economic Structure9. Immigrant Incorporation into U.S. Economy10. Puerto Rican Incorporation into NEW York11. Puerto Rican Incorporation into Areas Other Than New York12. ConclusionAppendix A: Selected MSAs by RegionAppendix B: Dissimilarity Indexes for Selected MSAs 1990Works CitedIndex
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Orbis Books (USA) Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practices
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to
Book SynopsisThere is growing popular fear over possible pesticide contamination of food and the microbiological safety of the food supply. This work explains why corporate agribusiness is a rising threat to farmers, the environment, and consumers. Ranging in subject from the politics of hunger to the new agricultural biotechnologies, the book addresses the reasons for the expansion of hunger despite the increase of world food supplies, and points the way toward organic, sustainable solutions to the problems of food supply and distribution.Table of ContentsThe agrarian origins of capitalism, Ellen Meiksins Wood; Liebig, Marx, and the depletion of soil fertility - relevance for today's agriculture, John Bellamy Foster, Fred Magdoff; agriculture and monopoly capital, William D. Heffernan; ecological impacts of industrial agriculture and the possibilities for sustainable farming, Miguel A. Altiery; the maturing of capitalist agriculture - farmer as proletarian, R.C. Lewontin; new agricultural biotechnologies - the struggle for democratic choice, Gerard Middendorf et al; global food politics, Philip McMichael; rebuilding local food systems from the grassroots up, Elizabeth Henderson; want amid plenty - from hunger to inequality, Janet Poppendieck, alternative agriculture works - the case of Cuba, Peter M. Rosset; the importance of land reform in the reconstruction of China, Willima Hinton; the great global enclosure of our times - peasants and the agrarian question at the beginning of the 21st century; farmworkers in the United States - from unionization to immigration, Linda C. Majka, Theo J. Majka
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our
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Steerforth Press Jennie's Boy: A Misfit Childhood on an Island of
Book Synopsis** Winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour **The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious grandmother who raised himA book to be relished by lovers of such works as The Glass Castle, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and Angela's AshesEverything readers love about consummate storyteller and beloved bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston's work is on full display in Jennie’s Boy: incredible characters, brilliant language, and a deep sense of place.Wayne Johnston’s family — his mother, father, and three brothers — were always on the move. The year he turned eight, the most memorable year of an unusual childhood, they found themselves occupying a wreck of a house in the community his mother Jennie was from: Goulds, Newfoundland was not so much a place as a scattering of homes along an unpaved road.Everyone knew him as “Jennie’s boy,” and his tiny, ferocious mother felt judged for Wayne’s sickly, skinny condition — he had to spend much of his time in a bed on wheels that was moved from room to room. While his brothers went off to school, Wayne passed his days with his witty, eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy, whose son Leonard had died at the age of seven and whose photo stood alongside a statue of the Blessed Virgin. Jennie's Boy recalls a boyhood full of pain, laughter, tenderness, and the kind of wit for which Newfoundlanders are known. By that wit, and by their love for each other — so often expressed in the most unloving ways — he, and they, survived.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance and
Book SynopsisTakes stock of the new forms of welfare and offers new methods to understand themTrade Review"Schram critiques current trends in welfare policy and argues for using new approaches in studying welfare policy and governance. The new approach features a compassionate emphasis on reducing harm in order to allow for diversity while building community in an era of globalization." The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "This book should challenge assumptions about redistributive politics in the United States and advance the study of the welfare state. It is particularly ideal for teaching undergraduate or Masters-level policy students." Perspectives on Politics
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Temple University Press,U.S. Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance and
Book SynopsisTakes stock of the new forms of welfare and offers new methods to understand themTrade Review"Schram critiques current trends in welfare policy and argues for using new approaches in studying welfare policy and governance. The new approach features a compassionate emphasis on reducing harm in order to allow for diversity while building community in an era of globalization." The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "This book should challenge assumptions about redistributive politics in the United States and advance the study of the welfare state. It is particularly ideal for teaching undergraduate or Masters-level policy students." Perspectives on Politics
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Rodale Press The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich
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Berrett-Koehler Pharmacy on a Bicycle; Innovative Solutions for
Book SynopsisDespite $21 billion spent on health-related projects, every year millions of people in poor countries die from diseases that are easy and inexpensive to prevent or cure. We know exactly what these people need, we just donât know how to get it to them effectively. People are dying not because we can't solve a medical problem but because we canât solve a logistics problem. The solution is a new kind of bottom-up health care that is delivered at the source. We need micro-clinics, micro-pharmacies, and micro-entrepreneurs located in the remote, hard-to-reach communities they serve. By building a new model that "scales down" to train and incentivize health care workers in their own villages and towns, we can create an army of health professionals who can prevent tragedy at a fraction of the cost of top-down bureaucratic programs. The key is to unleash the same forces of innovation and entrepreneurship that work in first-world business cultures, and to train, aid, and incubate health workers on site. The book is filled with practical solutions for governments, NGOs, and local and global businesses. It also contains examples of dozens of exemplary programs on the ground that are implementing these innovative solutions and saving lives.
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Michigan State University Press My Eyes Feel They Need to Cry: Stories from the
Book SynopsisAs intimate as they are inspiring, these stories of transformation, drawn from the oral histories of formerly homeless adults, testify to the determination of the human spirit and the healing power of sharing one’s journey. This gripping collection gives voice to the traditionally voiceless, inviting men and women from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds to share their experiences of what it was like to live on the streets, in cars, under bridges, and of how they discovered the inner motivation to change the course of their lives in a positive direction. An important contribution to understanding how destructive patterns can be broken, this book examines some key questions: How do those who have suffered from homelessness and the hardships that accompany it find the inspiration and courage to break the seemingly endless cycle, transform their lives, and become self-sufficient? What emotional price do they pay? When do they realize that enough is enough? How do they learn to trust new people when so many have disappointed them? Homeless people can and do find a way off the streets, as these men and women reveal through their stories, paintings, and poetry.
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Akashic Books Do Something for Nothing: Seeing Beneath the
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Microcosm Publishing Railroad Semantics
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WW Norton & Co Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions: Dispatches from the
Book SynopsisIn the 1980s, somewhere in Austin, Helton was young, married, and jobless. After a few strung-out years trying to make it as a writer, he was caught in a cycle of drunken, coked-up nights, crashing on friends’ couches and looking for money in the morning. Succumbing to the daunting reality of what it means to support both himself and a troubled marriage, he became a housepainter. He sold pumpkins on the side of the road, delivered firewood, ran a crew of illegal immigrants hauling railroad ties across the empty plains of Kansas, and then he painted even more. Despair is transformed into resilience as Helton insightfully narrates his wayward years, enduring hateful employers and mind-numbing manual labor. Along the way, the people toiling beneath the saccharine veneer of wealth that was the Reagan years are brought to vivid life: the ambitious and the lazy, the potheads and the racists, as well as Vietnam vets too shaken to hold a paintbrush and deadbeat fathers straining to pay child support. With intoxicating, blasé-faire sentiment, Helton shows that everyone—from the beauties at the rodeo to the lowest laborers—is tethered by a common desire to just pay the bills and balm the loneliness. A raw and moving account, Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions captures a microcosm of left-behind America that straddles a dangerous line between ruin and redemption.Trade Review"Helton writes with an honest, gritty, straightforward style about ugly things and somehow manages to make them beautiful…A great book." -- Terry Zwigoff"Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions is Helton at his best, as he recalls trudging through the lower depths working a myriad of menial jobs. With an abundance of humor, sharp observation, and a terrific ear for dialogue, he makes the bleak and tragic subject matter something to be savored." -- Terry Zwigoff, director of Crumb, Ghost World, Bad Santa, and Art School Confidential"Both funny and sad, this book illuminates the hard work and unrelenting tenacity of people who scratch a living with manual labor." -- Jan Reid, author of Sins of the Younger Sons"Somewhere between literary tinctures reminiscent of Charles Bukowski and Harvey Pekar, Helton conjures an intoxicating voice that mines mordant memories of abject and downtrodden moments to reveal hilarious, gobsmacking, and often haunting, epiphanies. When it doesn’t break your heart, this book might bust your gut from laughing." -- John Philip Santos"J. R. Helton is my favorite contemporary American writer. He has a gift for writing well in plain language, and he can’t seem to help but write with total honesty. I eagerly devoured Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions, as I do all his writing. Everything he puts down on paper ought to be printed and disseminated to the reading public." -- R. Crumb"I can’t help but fall for the way the rough and the poetic combine…Helton’s language will eat you up. His characters are wonderful and they are awful. They are so human, just like the rest of us." -- Erika T. Wurth, author of Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend and Buckskin Cocaine"These pages contain a cutting, insightful, and addictively readable slice of sociological rabble-rousing—a literary feat that takes a rare talent to pull off. Luckily for us, J. R. Helton has that talent in spades. He fires on all cylinders, speaking truth after truth, and taking no prisoners." -- Tony O'Neill
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Catapult Rethinking Rescue
Book SynopsisRethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time—poverty and homelessness—in asking the question: Who deserves the love of a pet?In Los Angeles’s most underserved communities, Lori Weise is known as the Dog Lady, the woman who’s spent decades caring for people in poverty and the animals that love them. Long before anyone else, Weise grasped that animal and human suffering are inextricably connected and created a new rescue narrative: an enduring safety net empowering pet owners and providing resources to reduce the number of pets coming into shelters.Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America’s Forgotten People and Pets unites the causes of animal welfare and social justice, moving between Weise’s story and that of the larger U.S. rescue movement. Through captivating storytelling and investigative reporting, Carol Mithers examines the consequences of bias within this overwhelmingly white movement, where an overemphasis on placing animals in affluent homes disregards pet owners in poverty. Weise’s innovative and ultimately triumphant efforts revealed a better way.As cities across the country witness some of the worst housing crises in history, and as the population of unhoused people and pets continues to skyrocket, Rethinking Rescue offers a story of compassion and hope.
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Verso Books The New Poverty
Book SynopsisToday 13 million people are living in poverty in the UK. According to a 2017 report, 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line. The new poor, however, are an even larger group than these official figures suggest. They are more often than not in work, living precariously and betrayed by austerity policies that make affordable good quality housing, good health and secure employment increasingly unimaginable.In The New Poverty investigative journalist Stephen Armstrong travels across Britain to tell the stories of those who are most vulnerable. It is the story of an unreported Britain, abandoned by politicians and betrayed by the retreat of the welfare state. As benefit cuts continue and in-work poverty soars, he asks what long-term impact this will have on post-Brexit Britain and-on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the 1942 Beveridge report-what we can do to stop the destruction of our welfare state.Trade ReviewArmstrong has gone to Wigan to expose a situation with depressing echoes of Orwell's day: huge inequalities of wealth, comfort and life chances unaddressed by a government composed of distant, unsympathetic plutocrats and public schoolboys . . . The reasons for this apparent social shift, this new, ugly, public face of a lumpen proletariat Orwell rarely encountered, are many and complex. Most of them are surveyed in this forceful book. It is powerful stuff -- Stuart Maconie * Guardian [for The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited] *Back in 1936, Orwell asked why people should live in poverty and despair in one of the richest countries in the world? Now, as this book shows, the cold hand of poverty is back. It is time to ask this government the same question: Why? * Mirror *Defines the state of the nation * Big Issue *A great anecdotally-rich account of poverty in 21st century Britain * RSA Comment *Stephen Armstrong's The New Poverty is a hard hitting expose of the problems and suffering of people who are at the lower end of the pay scale and therefore at the mercy of those who wish to take advantage. This book is very much in the mould of George Orwell's The Road To Wigan Pier and makes for uneasy, but essential reading. -- Richard Blair, Patron of the Orwell SocietyA visceral experience, punching through the layers of rationalisation, ignorance and self-interest separating those who live comfortably from those who don't ... The outstanding feature of The New Poverty is Armstrong's persistent effort to connect local experience and action the systematic context in which poverty is not only thriving but also taking increasingly sinister forms * London Review of Books *Mixes hard facts with heartbreaking interviews, deploying the latter to give weight to the former and to make their abstractions more devastatingly real. . .Read this and you'll realise that now is our time to act. -- Mark Rappalt * Art Review *
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Four Courts Press Ltd Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath: the findings of
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Martino Fine Books A Theology for the Social Gospel
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Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press Living on the Streets in Japan: Homeless Women
Book SynopsisHomelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant model of a "homeless person" has been that of an unemployed male labourer - a model that has largely excluded women, who experience homelessness in different forms. This study gives the homeless women of Japan a voice at last.Based on extensive fieldwork, the author paints a vivid picture of the unique experiences of homeless women living in a diverse range of environments. By introducing a gender perspective to the analytic framework and challenging the conception of the homeless individual as a rational, autonomous subject, the author invites a critical reconsideration of homeless studies and of public policy.Table of Contents Figures Tables Photos Foreword to the English-Language Edition Foreword to the Original Edition 1 Toward an ethnography of homeless women 2 Who are the homeless women? 3 Establishing welfare for homeless women 4 Gender norms and the use of welfare facilities 5 The world of women who sleep rough 6 Continuing and ending rough sleeping 7 The process of change 8 Resisting the spell of the autonomous subject Epilogue Afterword Notes References Name Index Subject Index
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ISI Books A Path of Our Own: An Andean Village and
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Rutgers University Press Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class
Book SynopsisIn rural northern Idaho in the winter of 2013-2014, Syringa Mobile Home Park’s water system was contaminated by sewage, resulting in residents’ water being shut off for 93 days. By summer 2018 Syringa had closed, forcing residents to relocate or face homelessness. Trailer Park America chronicles how residents dealt with regulatory agencies, frequent boil order notices, threats of closure, and class-based social stigma over this period. Despite all this, what was seen as a dysfunctional, ‘disorderly’ community by outsiders was instead a refuge where veterans, women heads of households, and people with disabilities or substance use disorders were supported and understood. The embattled Syringa community also organized to defend the rights and dignity of residents and served as a site for negotiating with local government, culminating in a class-action lawsuit that reached the federal level. The experiences Syringa residents faced in this conservative, predominately white region of the United States are emblematic of the growing national and global crisis in affordable housing and home ownership, with declining work conditions and incomes for the working-class.Trade Review“Trailer Park America is exceptionally well written, in clear, direct language, making vivid the real, human dramas at the heart of broad social systems, relationships and institutions. One of the best books I have read in decades.”— Elaine Coburn, editor of More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom "Trailer Park America explores three critical crises of our day – economic inequality, ecological disaster, and housing insecurity – through deeply-engaged, collaborative research with impacted communities in one of our nation’s most overlooked, and most important, sources of affordable housing."— Esther Sullivan, author of Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place “Immersing herself in Syringa, Idaho, for more than five years, Leontina Hormel is clearly passionate about both the issue of housing and this community itself. Trailer Park America is a welcome contribution to the existing literature on low-income housing and mobile home residents in particular.”— Daisy Rooks, University of MontanaTable of ContentsFOREWORD BY DAWN TACHELL CHRONOLOGY INTRODUCTION Crisis 1 WHO BELONGS ON THE PALOUSE? 2 INVENTING WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITIES 3 MAKING A FUNCTIONAL COMMUNITY AMID DISORDER 4 VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE Flushing the Public Good 5 RED TAGS The Letter of the Law Kills 6 SYRINGA REFUGEES 7 DEATH OF A COMMUNITY 8 TRAILER PARK POLITICS Recognizing Working-Class People’s Knowledge and Mobilization 9 TRAILER PARK AMERICA Syringa Residents’ Lessons to the Public APPENDIX: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
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Rutgers University Press Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class
Book SynopsisIn rural northern Idaho in the winter of 2013-2014, Syringa Mobile Home Park’s water system was contaminated by sewage, resulting in residents’ water being shut off for 93 days. By summer 2018 Syringa had closed, forcing residents to relocate or face homelessness. Trailer Park America chronicles how residents dealt with regulatory agencies, frequent boil order notices, threats of closure, and class-based social stigma over this period. Despite all this, what was seen as a dysfunctional, ‘disorderly’ community by outsiders was instead a refuge where veterans, women heads of households, and people with disabilities or substance use disorders were supported and understood. The embattled Syringa community also organized to defend the rights and dignity of residents and served as a site for negotiating with local government, culminating in a class-action lawsuit that reached the federal level. The experiences Syringa residents faced in this conservative, predominately white region of the United States are emblematic of the growing national and global crisis in affordable housing and home ownership, with declining work conditions and incomes for the working-class.Trade Review"Trailer Park America explores three critical crises of our day – economic inequality, ecological disaster, and housing insecurity – through deeply-engaged, collaborative research with impacted communities in one of our nation’s most overlooked, and most important, sources of affordable housing." -- Esther Sullivan * author of Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place *“Trailer Park America is exceptionally well written, in clear, direct language, making vivid the real, human dramas at the heart of broad social systems, relationships and institutions. One of the best books I have read in decades.” -- Elaine Coburn * editor of More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom *“Immersing herself in Syringa, Idaho, for more than five years, Leontina Hormel is clearly passionate about both the issue of housing and this community itself. Trailer Park America is a welcome contribution to the existing literature on low-income housing and mobile home residents in particular.” -- Daisy Rooks * University of Montana *Table of Contents FOREWORD BY DAWN TACHELL CHRONOLOGY INTRODUCTION Crisis 1 WHO BELONGS ON THE PALOUSE? 2 INVENTING WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITIES 3 MAKING A FUNCTIONAL COMMUNITY AMID DISORDER 4 VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE Flushing the Public Good 5 RED TAGS The Letter of the Law Kills 6 SYRINGA REFUGEES 7 DEATH OF A COMMUNITY 8 TRAILER PARK POLITICS Recognizing Working-Class People’s Knowledge and Mobilization 9 TRAILER PARK AMERICA Syringa Residents’ Lessons to the Public APPENDIX: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
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