Poverty and precarity Books

Book SynopsisTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Sweatshops Are Where Hearts Starve Part 1. The Fall and Rise of Sweatshops in the United States Chapter 1. What Is a Sweatshop? Appendix 1. Estimating the Number of Sweatshop Workers in the United States in 2000 Chapter 2. Memory of Strike and Fire Chapter 3. The Decline of Sweatshops in the United States Chapter 4. The Era of Decency and the Return of the Sweatshop Part 2. Explaining the Rise of the New Sweatshops Chapter 5. Global Capitalism and the Race to the Bottom in the Production of Our Clothes Chapter 6. Retail Chains: The Eight-Hundred-Pound Gorillas of the World Trade in Clothing Chapter 7. Firing Guard Dogs and Hiring Foxes Chapter 8. Immigrants and Imports Chapter 9. Union Busting and the Global Runaway Shop Chapter 10. Framing Immigrants, Humiliating Big Shots: Mass Media and the Sweatshop Issue Appendix 2. Details of the Immigrant Blame Analysis Conclusion to Part 2: Producing Sweatshops in the United States Part 3. Movements and Policies Chapter 11. Combating Sweatshops from the Grass Roots Chapter 12. Solidarity North and South: Reframing International Labor Rights Chapter 13. Ascending a Ladder of Effective Antisweatshop Policy Chapter 14: Three Pillars of Decency Personal Epilogue: Hearts Starve Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCombining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus Basic Income challenges the conventional wisdom that these two transformations were unrelated.

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Book SynopsisTakes readers into the lives of clients and lawyers who brought critical poverty law cases in the United States. These cases involved attempts to establish the right to basic necessities, as well as efforts to ensure dignified treatment of welfare recipients and to halt administrative attacks on federal programme benefit levels.Trade Review“The contributors include some of the best academics who writeand teach about poverty. The back stories of these cases aremultidimensionally interesting—the clients, the legal strategies, thelawyers themselves, the historical and political context, the effect on thelaw, the backstage of the Supreme Court and the role of the law clerks.” - Peter Edelman, Georgetown University Law Center

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Book SynopsisThis famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York''s slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis, more than 100 grim scenes reveal man''s struggle to survive.

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Book SynopsisProvides an analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. This title chronicles the transformation of Peru's poor from a culture of deference and clientelism in the late 1960s to a population mobilized for radical political action.

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Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the years: rapidly rising income inequality. This title provides an overview of how and why the level and distribution of income and wealth has changed since 1979, and investigates the forces that are driving it.Trade Review"I recommend this book ... to anyone interested in why income inequality has increased so markedly over the last 30 years." -- Patrick Flavin Political Science Quarterly "Blank offers insight on a topic of much current debate." -- R. S. Rycroft ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Changes in Income and Earnings 1. A Broader Look at Changing Inequality 2. Changing Inequality in Annual Earnings and Its Components 3. Changing Inequality in Total Income and Its Components 4. Understanding These Changes Part II. Can Inequality be Reduced? 5. How Economic Shocks Change Income Distribution 6. Ways to Reduce Inequality (and Their Limits) 7. Changing Inequality in the United States Today Appendix 1. Details of the Chapter 2 Simulation and Appendix Figures Appendix 2. Income Components by Decile Appendix 3. Details of the Chapter 4 Simulations Appendix 4. Details of the Chapter 6 Simulations Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisLooks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. This book argues that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems.Trade Review"Impressive ... straightforward, compelling, and well-documented... This is an important book-for lots of reasons." -- Daniel T. Lichter, Cornell University American Jrnl Of Sociology "Recommended." -- R.S. Rycroft ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Evolution of Southern Tax Structures 2. Barriers to Change: Inertia, Supermajorities, and Constitutional Amendments 3. The Geography of Poverty 4. Tax Traps and Regional Poverty Regimes 5. The Bottom Line Conclusion: Are We Our Brothers' Keepers? Appendix I. How Many Lags of X? by Scott M. Lynch Appendix II. Tables Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with 115 families, the authors look at how parents plan to use this annual cash windfall to build up savings, go back to school, and send their kids to college.Trade Review"Humanizes the working poor in an unforgettable way." The Kansas City Star "An important contribution to poverty policy scholarship." -- Vanessa D. Wells Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare "It's Not Like I'm Poor inspires one to wonder whether there are existing educational interventions that, with changes to their delivery method, might lead to better experiences and outcomes for children and families... Not only did their work dispel many of the negative stereotypes of welfare-reliant mothers and present an honest picture of the financial realities these families faced, it also helped forecast the relative hardships families would face when the effects of welfare reform took shape." -- Celia J. Gomez Harvard Educational ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Family Budgets: Staying in the Black, Slipping into the Red 2. Tax Time 3. The New Regime through the Lens of the Old 4. Beyond Living Paycheck to Paycheck 5. "Debt--I Am Hoping to Eliminate That Word!" 6. Capitalizing on the Promise of the EITC Appendix A: Introduction to Boston and the Research Project Appendix B: Qualitative Interview Guide Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with 115 families, the authors look at how parents plan to use this annual cash windfall to build up savings, go back to school, and send their kids to college.Trade Review"Humanizes the working poor in an unforgettable way." The Kansas City Star "An important contribution to poverty policy scholarship." -- Vanessa D. Wells Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare "It's Not Like I'm Poor inspires one to wonder whether there are existing educational interventions that, with changes to their delivery method, might lead to better experiences and outcomes for children and families... Not only did their work dispel many of the negative stereotypes of welfare-reliant mothers and present an honest picture of the financial realities these families faced, it also helped forecast the relative hardships families would face when the effects of welfare reform took shape." -- Celia J. Gomez Harvard Educational ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Family Budgets: Staying in the Black, Slipping into the Red 2. Tax Time 3. The New Regime through the Lens of the Old 4. Beyond Living Paycheck to Paycheck 5. "Debt--I Am Hoping to Eliminate That Word!" 6. Capitalizing on the Promise of the EITC Appendix A: Introduction to Boston and the Research Project Appendix B: Qualitative Interview Guide Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisYears after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. This book provides an account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group: autoworkers.Trade Review"Rich... Chen constructs a skilled analysis of overlapping issues rising from differences of race, gender and family status." -- Angelia R. Wilson Times Higher Education "The book is full of accounts, many containing moving, first-person stories of the impact on individuals and families of difficult work... Recomended." -- C. K. Piehl CHOICE connect "Cut Loose is an illuminating look at the impacts of prolonged joblessness that accompanied economic restructuring for a group of long-term unemployed autoworkers in Michigan and Ontario in 2009-10." American Journal of Sociology "[Chen's] in-depth interviews are both empathetic and perceptive... Important." Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. They Had It Coming 2. All This Garbage from Life: Education and the Capital Speedup 3. Decline and Fall: Hardship, Race, and the Social Safety Net 4. Half a Man: Fragile Families and the Unmarriageable Unemployed 5. Vicious Circles: The Structure of Power and the Culture of Judgment 6. Loser: The Failures of the American Dream 7. There Go I Appendix: Research Methods and Policy Details Notes Index

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Book SynopsisCan philanthropy alleviate inequality? Do antipoverty programs work on the ground? In this book, the author focuses on these issues play out in California's Central Valley, which is one of the wealthiest agricultural production regions in the world and also home to the poorest people in the United States.Trade Review"Recommended." CHOICE "Too often, philanthropic and non-profit work is taken for granted as being inherently benevolent. Kohl-Arenas complicates these assumptions while also honoring the critiques presented by the Central Valley's nonprofit leaders and workers, who frequently hail from the communities they serve." Anthropology of Work ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Private Philanthropy and the Self-Help Myth 2. The Hustling Arm of the Union: Nonprofit Institutionalization and the Compromises of Cesar Chavez 3. Foundation-Driven Collaborative Initiatives: Civic Participation for What? 4. Selling Mutual Prosperity: Worker-Grower Partnerships and the "Win-Win" Paradigm 5. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCan one teacher truly make a difference in her students' lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of poverty? This book deals with these questions.Trade Review"It's become a standard book and movie trope: An idealistic teacher walks into a classroom of hardened, at-risk students and strives to reach them.But the outlines of the story, while familiar, can still surprise and inspire." Boston Globe Book Section "A valuable look at the intellectual lives (and fragile potential) of girls buffeted by American social realities, and an excellent reflection on the challenges of teaching." Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Author's Note Introduction: A Teacher on a Mission Part I. Childhood Ghosts 1. Ghost Rose Speaks 2. Elizabeth Discovers Her Paperback 3. We're Sisters! Part II. My Life as a Girl 4. Girl Talk 5. A Magazine Is Born 6. Mrs. Bush Visits (But Not Our Class) 7. A Saturday at the Bookstore 8. Jessica Finds Jesus, and Elizabeth Finds Love 9. Blair Discovers a Voice Part III. Leavings 10. At Sixteen 11. Girlhood Interrupted 12. I Deserve a Better Life 13. The Road Out Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the work of several food justice groups - including Community Services Unlimited, a South Los Angeles organization founded as the nonprofit arm of the Southern California Black Panther Party - this title explores the possibilities and limitations of the community-based approach, and more.Trade Review"More Than Just Food offers critical perspectives on food justice projects-from what Broad characterizes as more obviously flawed white-savior-outsider-led endeavors to the more sympathetically portrayed but still imperfect CSU." International Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Food Justice and Community Change 1 • Networks, Narratives, and Community Action 2 • Food Systems, Food Movements, Food Justice 3 • In a Community Like This 4 • The Youth Food Justice Movement 5 • From the Black Panthers to the USDA 6 • Competing Visions and the Food Justice Brand Conclusion Appendix: A Note on Theory and Method Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the possibilities and limitations of the community-based approach, offering a networked examination of the food justice movement in the age of the non-profit industrial complex.Trade Review"More Than Just Food offers critical perspectives on food justice projects-from what Broad characterizes as more obviously flawed white-savior-outsider-led endeavors to the more sympathetically portrayed but still imperfect CSU." International Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Food Justice and Community Change 1 • Networks, Narratives, and Community Action 2 • Food Systems, Food Movements, Food Justice 3 • In a Community Like This 4 • The Youth Food Justice Movement 5 • From the Black Panthers to the USDA 6 • Competing Visions and the Food Justice Brand Conclusion Appendix: A Note on Theory and Method Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners filed for foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Valley, Noelle Stout uncovers the predacious bureaucracy that organized the largest bank seizure of residential homes in U.S. history. Stout reveals the failure of Wall Street banks' mortgage assistance programsbacked by over $300 billion of federal fundsto deliver on the promise of relief. Unlike the programs of the Great Depression, in which the government took on the toxic mortgage debt of Americans, corporate lenders and loan servicers ultimately denied over 70 percent of homeowner applications. In the voices of bank employees and homeowners, Stout unveils how call center representatives felt about denying appeals and shares the fears of families living on the brink of eviction. Stout discloses the impacts of rising inequality on homeownersfrom whites who felt their middle-class life unraveling to communities of color who experienced a more precipitous and dire decline. Trapped in a Kafkaesque maze of mortgage assistance, borrowers began to view debt refusal as a moral response to lenders, as seemingly mundane bureaucratic dramas came to redefine the meaning of debt and dispossession.Trade Review"Building on existing research about the Great Recession, [Stout] offers intimate interviews with a dozen families who lost their homes in the Sacramento Valley. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction. Once Sold, Twice Taken: A Life Undone 1. Dream It, Own It: Genealogies of Speculation and Dispossession in the ValleyLandscapes 2. Put Out: Bank Seizure at the Poverty Line 3. Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Relocating the Middle ClassDocuments 4. Can’t Work the System: The Troubled Sympathies of Corporate Bureaucrats 5. We Shall Not Be Moved: The Shifting Moral Economies of Debt RefusalDrawings Conclusion. You Can’t Go Home Again Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners filed for foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Valley, Noelle Stout uncovers the predacious bureaucracy that organized the largest bank seizure of residential homes in U.S. history. Stout reveals the failure of Wall Street banks' mortgage assistance programsbacked by over $300 billion of federal fundsto deliver on the promise of relief. Unlike the programs of the Great Depression, in which the government took on the toxic mortgage debt of Americans, corporate lenders and loan servicers ultimately denied over 70 percent of homeowner applications. In the voices of bank employees and homeowners, Stout unveils how call center representatives felt about denying appeals and shares the fears of families living on the brink of eviction. Stout discloses the impacts of rising inequality on homeownersfrom whites who felt their middle-class life unraveling to communities of color who experienced a more Trade Review"Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Building on existing research about the Great Recession, [Stout] offers intimate interviews with a dozen families who lost their homes in the Sacramento Valley. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"My hope is that when scholars write about this moment, the immeasurable loss and the suffering, they do so with the precision, clarity, and care Noelle Stout displays in her work on those who, grasping at the promise of the American dream, lost their homes and their place to unnatural disaster." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction. Once Sold, Twice Taken: A Life Undone 1. Dream It, Own It: Genealogies of Speculation and Dispossession in the ValleyLandscapes 2. Put Out: Bank Seizure at the Poverty Line 3. Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Relocating the Middle ClassDocuments 4. Can’t Work the System: The Troubled Sympathies of Corporate Bureaucrats 5. We Shall Not Be Moved: The Shifting Moral Economies of Debt RefusalDrawings Conclusion. You Can’t Go Home Again Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ray uses . . . details to reveal how deeply life is colored by poverty and how desperately these young people want to believe they can succeed." * American Journal of Sociology *"Ray provides a refreshing analysis of the challenges facing economically marginalized youth of color. . . . The Making of a Teenage Service Class has significant implications for family scholars, practitioners, and educators. It reminds family scholars and practitioners to pay attention to the intricacy of family dynamics and the importance of not assuming that everyone in a family shares the same experiences, has the same needs or interests, or responds the same way in the face of poverty." * Journal of Family Theory and Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Mobility Puzzle and Irreconcilable Choices 2. Port City Rising from the Ashes 3. Sibling Ties 4. Risky Love 5. Saved by College 6. The Making of a Teenage Service Class 7. Internalizing Uncertainty: Bad Genes, Hunger, and Homelessness 8. Uncertain Success 9. Dismantling the “At Risk” Discourse Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBeginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and one of the world's most successful city food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat for Food Security was founded in 1993, malnutrition in Belo Horizonte has declined dramatically, allowing it to serve as an inspiration for Brazil's renowned Zero Hunger programs. The Municipal Secretariat's work with local small family farmers also offers a glimpse of how food security, rural livelihoods, and healthy ecosystems can be supported together. While inevitably imperfect, Belo Horizonte offers a vision of the path away from food system dysfunction, unsustainability, and hunger. The author's case study shows the vital importance of holistic approaches to food security, offers ideas on how to design successful policies to end hunger, and lays out strategies for how to make policy change happen. With these tools, we can take the next steps towards achieving similar reductions in hunger and food insecurity elsewhere in the developed and developing worlds.Trade Review"It is tempting for socialists to argue simply that the problem is capitalism and that only a socialist, post-capitalist world can feed the world’s population healthily and sustainably. M. Jahi Chappell’s important study shows that this is wrong." * Climate and Capitalism *"M. Jahi Chappell provides a necessary antidote to those who claim hunger cannot be alleviated." * The Journal of Peasant Studies *"This is a very good book that I imagine will (and should) be adopted for use in a number of upper level undergraduate or graduate classes in the social sciences or interdisciplinary fields such as development studies, environmental studies, and food studies. I have just begun to use the text with my own students this semester and more than a few have remarked on how nice it is to have a relatively positive story as compared to the critiques and narratives of failure they often encounter in the social sciences." * American Association of Geographers Review of Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Frances Moore Lappé Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Food and Famine Futures, Past and Present 2. Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Beginning to End Hunger 3. Belo Horizonte: All Five A’s on the Horizon 4. Multiple Streams and the Evolution of the Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security 5. Farm, Farmer, and Forest: SMASAN and the Environment 6. Conclusions: Belo Horizonte and Beyond Abbreviations Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. Unjust Conditions follows the lives and labors of poor mothers in rural Peru, richly documenting the ordeals they face to participate in mainstream poverty alleviation programs. Championed by behavioral economists and the World Bank, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are praised as efficient mechanisms for changing poor people's behavior. While rooted in good intentions and dripping with the rhetoric of social inclusion, CCT programs' successes ring hollow, based solely on metrics for children's attendance at school and health appointments. Looking beyond these statistics reveals a host of hidden costs for the mothers who meet the conditions. With a poignant voice and keen focus on ethnographic research, Tara PatriciaCooksonturns the reader's gaze to women's care work in landscapes of grossly inadequate state investment, cleverly drawing out the tensions between social inclusion and conditionality.Trade Review"[Cookson] is able to present her informants in a perceptive and nuanced way which shows careful reflection of wider debates around ‘development’ and representation . . . this is a ‘must read’ for all those with an interest in the gendered and racialised nature of poverty." * Gender & Development *"A nuanced analysis of a widely implemented and evaluated approach to poverty reduction . . . Unjust Conditions is a must-read for those interested in the political-economic drivers of poverty, as well as researchers, students and practitioners of development, gender and labour, and governance and social policy who wish to understand CCT from a critical perspective." * Anthropologica *"Anyone interested in women’s care work, critical development studies, institutional ethnography, and/or the rural Peruvian Andes will want to read this text. Cookson’s ethnography is extensive, historical, and dynamic. She has rendered her time spent in Peru in vivid geographic detail." * Gender, Place & Culture *"Cookson poignantly unpacks the underpinnings of [conditional cash transfer programs] within mainstream economic theory in terms of rational decision making and cost –benefit analysis." * Politics & Gender *"[T]he unsettling evidence presented in Unjust Conditions provides a compelling reason for exploring these 'hidden costs' across the many other contexts in which [CCT] programs are implemented." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Map of Peru 1 Introduction: Making Aid Conditional 2 Setting the Conditions 3 The Ironic Conditions of Clinics and Schools 4 Rural Women Walking and Waiting 5 Paid and Unpaid Labor on the Frontline State 6 Shadow Conditions and the Immeasurable Burden of Improvement 7 Conclusion: Toward a Caring Society Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisShaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of theory and empirical evidence, Tom Slater shakes up mainstream urban studies in a concise and pointed fashion by turning on its head much of the prevailing wisdom in the field. To this end, he explores the themes of data-driven innovation, urban resilience, gentrification, displacement and rent control, neighborhood effects, territorial stigmatization, and ethnoracial segregation. With important contributions to ongoing debates in sociology, geography, urban planning, and public policy, this book engages closely with struggles for land rights and housing justice to offer numerous insights for scholarship and political action to guard against the spread of an urbanism rooted in vested interest. Trade Review"Slater’s broad approach and global lens grant this book great potential to help scholars, especially younger ones, to rethink the logic behind research questions and approaches." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Sitting down with Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question is like pulling up a chair with Tom Slater to talk about the state of play of urban studies. . . .Yet the highlight of this work is the intellectual contribution, which I see as holding the idea of epistemology – that is, the production of knowledge – and the idea of agnotology – that is, the production of ignorance – in tension with each other." * Urban Studies *"Shaking Up the City sets a new direction of critical urban geography." * Antipode *"Slater offers important insight for urban scholars and practitioners by showing how ideology, politics, and institutional arrangements interact to narrow urban policy choice sets." * Journal of the American Planning Association *"A detailed and very well-written account of several important concepts in critical urban theory." * Housing Studies *

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Book SynopsisFor nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work. Yet recently local governments have moved away from manufacturing and toward urban expansion and construction as a development strategy. As a result, at least 88 million rural people to date have lost rights to village land. In Beneath the China Boom, JuliaChuang follows the trajectories of rural workers, who were once supported by a village welfare state and are now landless. This book provides a view of the undertow of China's economic success, and the periodic crisesa rural fiscal crisis, a runaway urbanizationthat it first created and now must resolve.Trade Review"This book is an outstanding new contribution to the literature on China’s urbanization as well as on socioeconomic development more broadly. Moreover, it is a very engaging read. I would highly recommend it to experts, scholars, as well as students from related disciplinary backgrounds." * Asien: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia *"Chuang’s book is a tour de force in revealing the complexities and interconnections of China’s economic boom, especially the more recent developments occurring in the country’s interior provinces." * Exertions * "Beneath the China Boom is an excellent example of unlocking large-scale social processes through multisited ethnography." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Index of Characters 1. China’s Rise 2. A Tale of Two Villages 3. Into the World of Chinese Labor 4. Rural/Urban Dualism 5. Urbanization and the New Rural Economy 6. Paradoxes of Urbanization 7. The Future of Chinese Development Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Raudenbush’s Health Care off the Books provides a compelling account and an indictment of the American health care system, one that simultaneously drives low-income residents to engage in risky behavior and physicians to skirt the edges of medical ethics. In a time of growing health care need amid a global pandemic coupled with economic strife, her book should be required reading for students of medical sociology and medicine alike." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Health Care Access in America and the Formal-Informal Hybrid Health Care System 2. Access to Care in Jackson Homes 3. Sick, Poor, and without Care: Individual Responses to Barriers and the Emergence of a Hybrid System 4. “On the Poor Side of Things”: The Role of the Local Community in the Hybrid System 5. The Doctor Is In: Physicians in the Hybrid System 6. After the Affordable Care Act 7. Conclusion Methodological Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrapped in a Maze provides a window into families'lived experiences in poverty by looking at their complex interactions with institutions such as welfare, hospitals, courts, housing, and schools. Families are more intertwined with institutions than ever as they struggle to maintain their eligibility for services and face the possibility that involvement with one institution could trigger other types of institutional oversight. Many poor families find themselves trapped in a multi-institutional maze, stuck in between several systems with no clear path to resolution. Tracing the complex and often unpredictable journeys of families in this maze, this book reveals how the formal rationality by which these institutions ostensibly operate undercuts what they can actually achieve. And worse, it demonstrates how involvement with multiple institutions can perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape.Trade Review"In this concise, excellent book, Leslie Paik demonstrates how these institutions, while intended to support poor families, instead trap them deeper in poverty." * American Journal of Sociology *

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Book SynopsisTrapped in a Maze provides a window into families'lived experiences in poverty by looking at their complex interactions with institutions such as welfare, hospitals, courts, housing, and schools. Families are more intertwined with institutions than ever as they struggle to maintain their eligibility for services and face the possibility that involvement with one institution could trigger other types of institutional oversight. Many poor families find themselves trapped in a multi-institutional maze, stuck in between several systems with no clear path to resolution. Tracing the complex and often unpredictable journeys of families in this maze, this book reveals how the formal rationality by which these institutions ostensibly operate undercuts what they can actually achieve. And worse, it demonstrates how involvement with multiple institutions can perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape.Trade Review"In this concise, excellent book, Leslie Paik demonstrates how these institutions, while intended to support poor families, instead trap them deeper in poverty." * American Journal of Sociology *

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Book SynopsisCreative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropolitan areas today: the large numbers of people experiencing homelessness within cities. Four dedicated experts with first-hand experience profile ten citiesBogota, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Houston, Nashville, New York City, Baltimore, Edmonton, Paris, and Athensto explore ideas, strategies, successes, and failures. Together they bring an array of government, nonprofit, and academic perspectives to offer a truly global perspective. The authors answer essential questions about the nature and causes of homelessness and analyze how cities have used innovation and local political coordination to address this pervasive problem. Ten Global Cities will be an invaluable resource not only for students of policy and social work but for municipal, regional, and national policymakers; nonprofit service providers; community advocates and activists; and all citizens who want to collaborate for real change. These authors argue that homelessness is not an insurmountable social condition, and their examples show that cities and individuals working in coordination can lead the charge for better outcomes. Trade Review"The book is a valuable resource for those interested in how cities have succeeded in tackling some of the causes and consequences of homelessness. . . . It offers a refreshing hands-on contribution that not only identifies the problems around homelessness but, crucially, provides specific examples and evidence from many different settings about what can be done to overcome it." * LSE Review of Books *"Its real-world examples provide digestible and valuable information to the public—especially to advocates who are beginning a vocation in the field. . . . The book demonstrates that, thanks to the passion and determination of homeless-service system actors, innovative approaches in outreach and housing-first models have emerged and been successful." * Stanford Social Innovation Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Can Cities Solve Global Homelessness? 1. The Transformation of Homeless Services 2. Engaging People on the Streets 3. Sheltering Options That Work 4. Developing an Affordable Housing Strategy 5. Supportive Housing to Target Complex Needs 6. Prevention That Works 7. Systems-Level Thinking 8. Engaging the Community 9. Understanding the Homeless System: Street Counts, By-Name Lists, Agency Databases, and Basic Research 10. Managing for Results: Performance Management and Modeling 11. Managing in Emergencies Conclusion: Lessons for Other Cities—It Can Be Done Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCreative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropolitan areas today: the large numbers of people experiencing homelessness within cities. Four dedicated experts with first-hand experience profile ten citiesBogota, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Houston, Nashville, New York City, Baltimore, Edmonton, Paris, and Athensto explore ideas, strategies, successes, and failures. Together they bring an array of government, nonprofit, and academic perspectives to offer a truly global perspective. The authors answer essential questions about the nature and causes of homelessness and analyze how cities have used innovation and local political coordination to address this pervasive problem. Ten Global Cities will be an invaluable resource not only for students of policy and social work but for municipal, regional, and national policymakers; nonprofit service providers; community advocates and activists; and all citizens who want to collaborate for real change. These authors argue that homelessness is not an insurmountable social condition, and their examples show that cities and individuals working in coordination can lead the charge for better outcomes. Trade Review"The book is a valuable resource for those interested in how cities have succeeded in tackling some of the causes and consequences of homelessness. . . . It offers a refreshing hands-on contribution that not only identifies the problems around homelessness but, crucially, provides specific examples and evidence from many different settings about what can be done to overcome it." * LSE Review of Books *"Its real-world examples provide digestible and valuable information to the public—especially to advocates who are beginning a vocation in the field. . . . The book demonstrates that, thanks to the passion and determination of homeless-service system actors, innovative approaches in outreach and housing-first models have emerged and been successful." * Stanford Social Innovation Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Can Cities Solve Global Homelessness? 1. The Transformation of Homeless Services 2. Engaging People on the Streets 3. Sheltering Options That Work 4. Developing an Affordable Housing Strategy 5. Supportive Housing to Target Complex Needs 6. Prevention That Works 7. Systems-Level Thinking 8. Engaging the Community 9. Understanding the Homeless System: Street Counts, By-Name Lists, Agency Databases, and Basic Research 10. Managing for Results: Performance Management and Modeling 11. Managing in Emergencies Conclusion: Lessons for Other Cities—It Can Be Done Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labor markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America's most vulnerable households. Most research on poverty focuses on the damage caused by persistent unemployment. But what happens when jobs are plentiful and workers are hard to come by? Moving the Needle examines how very low unemployment boosts wages at the bottom, improves benefits, lengthens job ladders, and pulls the unemployed into a booming job market. Drawing on over seventy years of quantitative data, as well as interviews with employers, jobseekers, and longtime residents of poor neighborhoods, Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs investigate the most durable positive consequences of tight labor markets. They also consider the downside of overheated economies that can ignite surging rents and spur outmigration.Moving the Needle is an urgent and original call to implement policies that will maintain the current momentum and prepare for potential slowdowns that may lie ahead.Trade Review"Astute and timely . . . . This is a valuable resource for activists, scholars, and policymakers on the front lines of the battle to end poverty." * Publishers Weekly * "Overall, then, Moving the Needle provides a compelling account of the dynamics of tight labor markets with broad relevance to scholars of work and poverty, very broadly defined, and it serves as a useful model for a wide range of social science research." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents List of Tables, Figures, and Maps Introduction 1. The Dynamics of Tight Labor Markets 2. What Lasts? Durable Effects of Tight Labor Markets 3. Matching Up: How Employers Adapt to Tight Labor Markets 4. Leaning on Intermediaries 5. Entering from the Edge 6. Declining Drama 7. Family and Fortune 8. Policy Lessons from Tight Labor Markets Appendixes Personal and Institutional Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisShaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of theory and empirical evidence, Tom Slater shakes up mainstream urban studies in a concise and pointed fashion by turning on its head much of the prevailing wisdom in the field. To this end, he explores the themes of data-driven innovation, urban resilience, gentrification, displacement and rent control, neighborhood effects, territorial stigmatization, and ethnoracial segregation. With important contributions to ongoing debates in sociology, geography, urban planning, and public policy, this book engages closely with struggles for land rights and housing justice to offer numerous insights for scholarship and political action to guard against the spread of an urbanism rooted in vested interest. Trade Review"Slater’s broad approach and global lens grant this book great potential to help scholars, especially younger ones, to rethink the logic behind research questions and approaches." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Sitting down with Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question is like pulling up a chair with Tom Slater to talk about the state of play of urban studies. . . .Yet the highlight of this work is the intellectual contribution, which I see as holding the idea of epistemology – that is, the production of knowledge – and the idea of agnotology – that is, the production of ignorance – in tension with each other." * Urban Studies *"Shaking Up the City sets a new direction of critical urban geography." * Antipode *"Slater offers important insight for urban scholars and practitioners by showing how ideology, politics, and institutional arrangements interact to narrow urban policy choice sets." * Journal of the American Planning Association *"A detailed and very well-written account of several important concepts in critical urban theory." * Housing Studies *

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Book SynopsisAn unflinching exposé of how the family, juvenile, and criminal justice systems monetize the communities they purport to serve and trap them in crushing poverty Injustice, Inc. exposes the ways in which justice systems exploit America's history of racial and economic inequality to generate revenue on a massive scale. With searing legal analysis, Daniel L. Hatcher uncovers how courts, prosecutors, police, probation departments, and detention facilities are abandoning ethics to churn vulnerable children and adults into unconstitutional factory-like operations. Hatcher reveals stark details of revenue schemes and reflects on the systemic racialized harm of the injustice enterprise. He details how these corporatized institutions enter contracts to make money removing children from their homes, extort fines and fees, collaborate with debt collectors, seize property, incentivize arrests and evictions, enforce unpaid child labor, maximize occupancy in detention and treatment centers, and Trade Review“Hatcher, a professor of law and advocate for social justice, delivers a well-researched, scholarly, disturbing synthesis of social history and legal treatise, tracking the long-term monetization of the justice system. . . . A useful, bleak exposé of a little-understood legal labyrinth constructed to harm the most vulnerable.” * Kirkus Reviews *"Hatcher meticulously reveals a nefarious, unethical operation within juvenile and criminal justice systems. . . . This book will serve as a valuable contribution to many fields and provides an insightful resource for educators, families, and communities." * CHOICE *"Hatcher’s Injustice, Inc. provides an entirely new line of inquiry examining the hidden internal juvenile legal practices that center on capturing money— from federal funds to individuals’ income and assets. This book provides a dizzying eye opening deep dive into the juvenile legal system to highlight the strategies and practices which courts, police, prosecutors, probation offices, and confinement institutions use to generate revenue for state and local jurisdictions and even for personal profit." * Social Forces *“Daniel L. Hatcher, in his book Injustice, Inc., describes in detail a frankly apartheid system finely designed to milk every source of revenue from poor children.. He describes ‘factory-like operations’, ‘industrialization of harm’, ‘child support mercenaries’. He quotes official contracts that describe foster children as ‘units’, children as ‘data match algorithms’ for ‘predictive analytics’, and children as a ‘revenue generating mechanism.’ Paraphrasing poet Walt Whitman: ‘Out of the cradle endlessly rocking … [to] death, death, death, death.’” * Counterpunch *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Crumbling Foundations of Justice 2. Juvenile Courts Monetizing Child Removals 3. Judicial Child Support Factory 4. Prosecuting the Poor for Profit 5. The Probation Business 6. Policing and Profiting from the Poor 7. Bodies in the Beds: The Business of Jailing Children and the Poor 8. Racialized Harm of the Injustice Enterprise Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an interdisciplinary, cross-national examination of trends in youth unemployment and intervention strategies in the United States and Europe. It examines how persistently high rates of youth unemployment affect values, beliefs and institutions.Trade Review"The volume offers not only comprehensive reviews and interpretations of relevant literature, but also methodological and theoretical challenges to social scientists who work on these problems. The conclusions drawn throughout are well supported by the latest scientific research on the determining, mediating, and moderating factors affecting unemployment in Europe and North America. The book provides analyses of the success of national programs and systems designed to alleviate unemployment or prevent it from becoming a personal and societal problem." Leann M. Tigges, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsContributors; Foreword Klaus J. Jacobs; Introduction Jeylan T. Mortimer; Part I. Investment in Youth: 1. Youth, unemployment and marginality: the problem and the solution Laura E. Hess, Anne C. Petersen and Jeylan T. Mortimer; 2. Social capital, human capital and investment in youth James S. Coleman; 3. When may social capital influence children's school performance? John Modell; Reply to John Modell James S. Coleman; Reply to James S. Coleman John Modell; Part II. Macrosocial Perspectives: 4. The historical context of transition to work and youth unemployment Helmut Fend; 5. The causes of persistently high unemployment Michael White and David J. Smith; Part III. Individual Perspectives: 6. Concepts of causation, tests of causal mechanisms and implications for intervention Michael Rutter; 7. Individual differences as precursors of youth unemployment Jeylan T. Mortimer; 8. The psychosocial consequences of youth unemployment Adrian Furnham; Part IV. Social Consequences and Interventions: 9. Societal consequences of youth unemployment Hannie te Grotenhuis and Frans Meijers; 10. Social roles for youth: interventions in unemployment Stephen F. Hamilton; Part V. Implications for Research: 11. Youth: work and unemployment - a European perspective for research Hans Bertram; 12. Conclusions: social structure and psychosocial dimensions of youth unemployment Walter R. Heinz; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is a study of 1,400 prostitutes and brothel-keepers operating in a Victorian cathedral city over a half century.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Houses and haunts; 3. The prostitutes and brothel-keepers; 4. The clients; 5. Drink, destitution and disease; 6. Rescue and reform; Conclusion; Notes; bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis 2004 book compares the effects of two different kinds of underemployment - unemployment and inadequate employment relative to adequate employment. It studies these effects on self-esteem, alcohol abuse, depression, and, in cross-generational analysis, birth weight.Trade Review"...an eminently detailed, careful, and critical analysis...Highly recommended." Choice"...this book is engagin and balanced." Monthly Labor ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Disguised unemployment and changing forms of work; 2. The social costs of unemployment; 3. Data source and methods; 4. Reverse causation: findings on the selection hypothesis; 5. Leaving school: self-esteem in an unwelcoming economy; 6. Early adulthood: alcohol misuse and underemployment; 7. Settling down: psychological depression and underemployment; 8. Extending the employment continuum: well-being in welfare transitions; 9. The next generation: underemployment and birth weight; 10. Conclusions; 11. New directions; Appendices; References; Name index; Subject index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences, economic, political, and cultural, of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World.Trade Review'A major contribution … the strongest and most articulate statement that Africa and Africans were not passive agents … provocative and insightful.' Paul E. Lovejoy, Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryTable of ContentsPreface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Introduction; Part I. Africans in Africa: 1. The birth of the Atlantic world; 2. The development of commerce between Europeans and Africans; 3. Slavery and African social structure; 4. The process of enslavement and the slave trade; Part II. Africans in the New World: 5. Africans in colonial Atlantic societies; 6. Africans and Afro-Americans in the Atlantic world: life and labour; 7. African cultural groups in the Atlantic world; 8. Transformations of African culture in the Atlantic world; 9. African religions and Christianity in the Atlantic world; 10. Resistance, runaways, and rebels; Part III. Africans in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.

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Book SynopsisThe twentieth-century Australian welfare state made the bold promise to care for its citizens. But since the 1990s, social security has become increasingly conditional and punitive. Who Cares? outlines the perspectives of people affected by welfare measures, offering an urgent account of the implications of reforms.

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Book SynopsisGlasgow in the 1950s was a deprived and often violent place. Meg Henderson was part of a large family, and when the tenement block in which they lived collapsed they had to move to the notorious Blackhill district where religious sectarianism and gang warfare were part of daily life. Yet despite appalling conditions , there was warmth, laughter and a remarkable spirit, andMeg''s mother and her Aunt Peggy, both idealistic and emotional women, shielded her from the effects of her father''s heavy drinking. A hopeless romantic, Peggy searched for a husband until late in life and then endured a harsh, unhappy marriage. When she died horrifically in childbirth her death devastated the family and destroyed Meg''s childhood. Only later, after the death of her own mother, was Meg able to discover the shocking facts behind the tragedy.Trade ReviewMeg Henderson's journalistic background undoubtedly adds to the ease with which she describes people and places, making them at once familiar and freshly seen. Finding Peggy is full of rich detail told with humour and sharpness. * Scotland on Sunday *A warm and vivid memory of Glasgow life - it provokes nostalgia and anger in equal measure. Apart from anything else, this is a gripping story, told with real passion -- Magnus Linklater

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Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which noth

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Book Synopsis''One of the most original and audacious autobiographies ever written by a writer.'' Le Monde Hand to Mouth tells the story of the young Paul Auster''s struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Auster''s memoir is essentially a book about money - and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, Auster investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art and, in the process, treats us to a series of remarkable adventures and unforgettable encounters. Hand to Mouth is essential reading for anyone interested in Paul Auster, in the figure of the struggling artist, in the nature of poverty, or in baseball.

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Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.“Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”—The New Yorker ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: The Washington Post, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Elle, Salon, Lit Hub, Kirkus ReviewsThe United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?  In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws

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Book SynopsisDescribes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic 'reform' and 'adjustment'.Table of ContentsList of Tables. Acknowledgements. Part I: Introduction:. 1. Global Adjustment. 2. Food Riots Past and Present. Part II: Case Studies:. 3. Fighting for Survival: Women's Responses to Austerity Programs. 4. Latin America: Popular Protest and the State. 5. Economic Adjustment and Democratization in Africa. 6. The Middle East and North Africa. 7. The Asian Debt Crisis: Structural Adjustment and Popular Protest in India. 8. Explaining Sri Lanka's Exceptionalism: Popular Responses to Welfarism and the 'Open Economy'. 9. The Politics of Economic Reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Part III: Conclusion:. 10. Debt Crisis and Democratic Transition. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisWidely regarded as one of the classics of post-war historical writing, this book shows how central the role of poverty has been throughout the history of Europe. A history of poverty in Europe covering over 1000 years. Translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. High profile author - a leading member of solidarity and professor at the College de France. Trade Review"A wise, distinguished medieval historian, veteran of Poland's own battles with poverty, here extends himself over a millennium and a continent to illuminate the constantly-changing social conditions, definitions, explanations, political measures, and charitable actions by which Europeans have generated, mitigated, and stigmatized material hardship." Charles Tilly "A serious, meticulously researched history, Geremek's is a fine account of a fascinating and perennially topical subject." Literary ReviewTable of ContentsForeword. Introduction: What is Poverty?. 1. The Middle Ages: Charity and Salvation. 2. The Disintegration of Medieval Society. 3. Reformation and Repression: the 1520s. 4. The Reform of Charity. 5. Charitable Polemics: Local Politics and Reasons of State. 6. Prisons of Enlightenment. 7. Poverty and the Contemporary World. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe interlinkages between gender and poverty have, until recently, escaped careful analytical scrutiny. The contributors to this edited volume critically reflect on some of the key methodological and analytical issues that a gendered analysis of poverty needs to address. These foundational issues have serious implications for public action in this area.Trade Review"The contributors critically reflect on key methodological and analytical issues of a gendered analysis of poverty. The conclusion is that it is impossible to integrate gender into an understanding on poverty unless the reading of evidence and the analysis are grounded on the relational processes of accumulation and impoverishment. These are foundational issues, and have serious implications for public action to reduce/ eradicate the different kinds of poverty that men and women experience." Oxfam, Review of Journals "It is an extremely rich resource for anyone concerned with issues of gender and poverty. Researchers and practitioners will find in it a wealth of reliable information, clear concepts and robust arguments." Ines Smith, Oxfam GBTable of Contents1. Introduction: Gendered Poverty and Social Change: Shahra Razavi (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development). 2. Gender Bias and the 'Marriage Squeeze' in China, South Korea, and India: Monica Das Gupta and Li Shuzhuo (The World Bank and Xi'and Jiaotong University). 3. Development and Rising Female Demographic Disadvantage in India 1981-1991: What is the Role of Sex Selective Female Abortion and Female Infanticide?: S. Sudha and S. Irudaya Rajan (Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram). 4. The Conditions and Consequences of Choice: Reflections on the Measurement of Women's Empowerment: Naila Kabeer (Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK). 5. Gendering Poverty: A Review of Six World Bank African Poverty Assessments: Matthew Lockwood and Ann Whitehead (Christian Aid and University of Sussex). 6. Labour-Intensive Growth, Poverty and Gender: Neo-Classical, Institutionalist and Feminist Accounts: Shahra Razavi (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development). 7. Engendering Poverty Alleviation: The Challenges and Opportunities in the 1990s: Gita Sen (DAWN and Indian Institute of Management).

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