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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty

Charitable Choices - Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era (Paperback): John P. Bartkowski, Helen A. Regis Charitable Choices - Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era (Paperback)
John P. Bartkowski, Helen A. Regis
R813 Discovery Miles 8 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

View the Table of Contents. Read the Chapter 1.

"Provides important insight into the manner in which federal support of faith-based poverty relief initiatives affect religious identity in the Golden Triangle Region of rural Mississippi."--"Journal of Church and State"

"The book provides a thorough historical overview of the events that led up to the Bush administration's decision to promote faith-based social welfare. This thoughtful book is a useful addition to the growing literature on the subject and should be widely consulted."--"Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"

"Well-written and clearly organized."--"Journal of Social Services"

"In depth profiles...with obvious strengths."--"Contemporary Sociology"

"The findings raise serious concerns related to discriminatory practices around who will get served, and the qualification of those providing the services. . . . Highly recommended."
--"CHOICE"

"The comparative case method stretched across a complex analytical framework sketches the terrain in broad, suggestive, analytical strokes. We benefit from the timeliness of Bartkowski and Regis's study."
--"American Journal of Sociology"

"Nothing short of exceptional..."Charitable Choices" is a very readable book that makes an evident contribution to contemporary discourse about welfare reform and its possibilities and pitfalls."
--"Social Forces"

aThese stories reveal not only the profound commitment that clergy can have for their flock but how existing social structures can render the poor invisible. Charitable Choices is more useful as a description of an under-recognized aspect of American religious life than as an analysis of government welfarepolicy.a
"Religious Studies Review"

Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America's welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty.

Charitable Choices is an ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief in 30 congregations in the rural south. Drawing on in-depth interviews and fieldwork in Mississippi faith communities, it examines how religious conviction and racial dynamics shape congregational benevolence. Mississippi has long had the nation's highest poverty rate and was the first state to implement a faith-based welfare reform initiative. The book provides a grounded and even-handed treatment of congregational poverty relief rather than abstract theory on faith-based initiatives.

The volume examines how congregations are coping with national developments in social welfare policy and reveals the strategies that religious communities utilize to fight poverty in their local communities. By giving particular attention to the influence of theological convictions and organizational dynamics on religious service provision, it identifies both the prospects and pitfalls likely to result from the expansion of charitable choice.

Urban Poverty and Climate Change - Life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Hardcover): Manoj Roy, Sally Cawood,... Urban Poverty and Climate Change - Life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Hardcover)
Manoj Roy, Sally Cawood, Michaela Hordijk, David Hulme
R4,789 Discovery Miles 47 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Representing an important contribution to the evolution of more effective pro-poor climate change policies in urban areas by local governments, national governments and international organisations, this book is invaluable reading to students and scholars of environment and development studies.

Slumming It - The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty (Hardcover): Fabian Frenzel Slumming It - The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty (Hardcover)
Fabian Frenzel
R3,032 Discovery Miles 30 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums exert on their better-off visitors, looking at the many ways in which this curious form of attraction ignites changes both in the slums themselves and on the world stage. Covering slums in Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and multiple cities in South Africa, Kenya and India, Slumming It examines the roots and consequences of a growing phenomenon whose effects have ranged from gentrification and urban policy reform to the organization of international development and poverty alleviation. Controversially, Frenzel argues that the rise of slum tourism has drawn attention to important global justice issues, and is far more complex than we initially acknowledged.

Rural Inequality in Divided Russia (Paperback): Stephen Wegren Rural Inequality in Divided Russia (Paperback)
Stephen Wegren
R1,443 Discovery Miles 14 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines economic and political polarisation in post-Soviet Russia, and in particular analyses the development of rural inequality. It discusses how rural inequality has developed in post-Soviet Russia, and how it differs from the Soviet period, and goes on to look at the factors that affect rural stratification and inequality, using human and social capital, profession, gender, and village location as independent variables. The book uses survey data from rural households and fieldwork in Russia in order to highlight the multiplicity of divisions that act as fault lines in contemporary rural Russia.

Dharavi - From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm (Paperback): Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky Dharavi - From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm (Paperback)
Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Located in the heart of Mumbai, Dharavi is estimated to be the largest slum in Asia. Often referred to as 'Little India', it has been home to thousands of migrants from across the country providing opportunities for work and livelihood. As such, Dharavi presents a fascinating paradox: the convergence of stereotypes associated with the slum - poverty and misery - and an effervescent economic vitality, impelled by globalisation and international capital flows. Bringing together 20 years of painstaking fieldwork, this book reveals the social, economic, political, and urban complexities that define Dharavi beneath the shadow of Mumbai, the financial capital of India. It provides a rare account of the slum's history, with a special focus on the original populace of leather workers - who form the backbone of its urban informal economy - their work, organisation and increasing political awareness. Dominated by a population of ex-'untouchables', conventionally stigmatised by poverty and low status, Dharavi illustrates how traditional caste-based occupational and regional divisions continue to be strong and affect structures of political governance and economy. At the same time, it testifies to an intimate encounter with consumerism, liberalisation and technological innovations, and its resultant cultural globalisation under the heady influence of media, advertising and cinema transmitted by the city of Mumbai. This book traces the mega-slum's gradual transformation as a thriving trade centre, through an informal economy's successful adaptation to global markets, in turn establishing an urban paradigm. It will be useful to those in sociology, anthropology, urban studies, politics, public policy and governance, and to those interested in globalisation, transnational migration and town planning.

MGNREGA: Employment, Wages and Migration in Rural India (Hardcover): Parmod, Kumar, Dipanwita Chakraborty MGNREGA: Employment, Wages and Migration in Rural India (Hardcover)
Parmod, Kumar, Dipanwita Chakraborty
R4,939 Discovery Miles 49 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted in India with the multiple objectives of providing employment in a rights-based framework, addressing rural poverty, checking migration, and building rural infrastructure. As such, every year around 15-20 per cent of households in India overall and 30 per cent in rural India receive some form of employment share under the MGNREGA programme. This volume looks at various aspect of the scheme, its linkage with employment, agricultural wages, livelihood and food security, gender issues, and migration in rural India. It also discusses challenges in implementation, hurdles and the relative successes of the scheme. Based on primary survey data from 16 major states in the country, the findings of the study provide key insights into MGNREGA and assess the implications for other welfare-oriented programmes. Rich in empirical data, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of political economy, economics, agriculture, rural development and sociology, as well as policymakers and nongovernmental organisations.

Respectability and the London Poor, 1780-1870 - The Value of Virtue (Paperback): Lynn MacKay Respectability and the London Poor, 1780-1870 - The Value of Virtue (Paperback)
Lynn MacKay
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The population of London soared during the Industrial Revolution and the poorer areas became iconic places of overcrowding and vice. Focusing on the communities of Westminster, MacKay shows that many of the plebeian populace retained traditional working-class pursuits, such as gambling, drinking and blood sports.

The New Poverty Studies - The Ethnography of Power, Politics and Impoverished People in the United States (Paperback): Judith... The New Poverty Studies - The Ethnography of Power, Politics and Impoverished People in the United States (Paperback)
Judith G. Goode, Jeff Maskovsky
R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Stock market euphoria and blind faith in the post cold war economy have driven the topic of poverty from popular and scholarly discussion in the United States. At the same time the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. The New Poverty Studies critically examines the new war against the poor that has accompanied the rise of the New Economy in the past two decades, and details the myriad ways poor people have struggled against it.

The essays collected here explore how global, national, and local structures of power produce poverty and affect the material well-being, social relations and politicization of the poor. In updating the 1960s encounter between ethnography and U.S. poverty, The New Poverty Studies highlights the ways poverty is constructed across multiple scales and multiple axes of difference.

Questioning the common wisdom that poverty persists because of the pathology, social isolation and welfare state "dependency" of the poor, the contributors to The New Poverty Studies point instead to economic restructuring and neoliberal policy "reforms" which have caused increased social inequality and economic polarization in the U.S.

Contributors include: Georges Fouron, Donna Goldstein, Judith Goode, Susan B. Hyatt, Catherine Kingfisher, Peter Kwong, Vin Lyon-Callo, Jeff Maskovsky, Sandi Morgen, Leith Mullings, Frances Fox Piven, Matthew Rubin, Nina Glick Schiller, Carol Stack, Jill Weigt, Eve Weinbaum, Brett Williams, and Patricia Zavella.

"These contributions provide a dynamic understanding of poverty and immiseration"
"--North American Dialogue, Vol. 4, No. 1, Nov. 2001"

Blaming the Poor - The Long Shadows of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images About Poverty (Paperback): Susan D. Greenbaum Blaming the Poor - The Long Shadows of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images About Poverty (Paperback)
Susan D. Greenbaum
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1965, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan - then a high-ranking official in the Department of Labor - sparked a firestorm when he released his report "The Negro Family", which came to be regarded by both supporters and detractors as an indictment of African American culture. Blaming the Poor examines the regrettably durable impact of the Moynihan Report for race relations and social policy in America, challenging the humiliating image the report cast on poor black families and its misleading explanation of the causes of poverty. A leading authority on poverty and racism in the United States, Susan D. Greenbaum dismantles Moynihan's main thesis - that the so called matriarchal structure of the African American family "feminized" black men, making them inadequate workers and absent fathers, and resulting in what he called a tangle of pathology that led to a host of ills, from teen pregnancy to adult crime. Drawing on extensive scholarship, Greenbaum highlights the flaws in Moynihan's analysis. She reveals how his questionable ideas have been used to redirect blame for substandard schools, low wages, and the scarcity of jobs away from the societal forces that cause these problems, while simultaneously reinforcing stereotypes about African Americans. Greenbaum also critiques current policy issues that are directly affected by the tangle of pathology mindset -the demonization and destruction of public housing; the criminalization of black youth; and the continued humiliation of the poor by entrepreneurs who become rich consulting to teachers, non-profits, and social service personnel. A half century later, Moynihan's thesis remains for many a convenient justification for punitive measures and stingy indifference to the poor. Blaming the Poor debunks this infamous thesis, proposing instead more productive and humane policies to address the enormous problems facing us today.

Labour and the Poor Volume X - Liverpool (Hardcover): Charles Mackay Labour and the Poor Volume X - Liverpool (Hardcover)
Charles Mackay
R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT - Causes, Consequences and Cures (Paperback, New edition): Graham Dawson INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT - Causes, Consequences and Cures (Paperback, New edition)
Graham Dawson
R1,181 Discovery Miles 11 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is an introduction to the costs of unemployment and inflation, which analyzes the ways in which these two issues profoundly influence the conduct of economic policy. The book covers economic events and policies in the UK and the USA.

Resources, Deprivation, and Poverty (Hardcover, New): Brian Nolan, Christopher T. Whelan Resources, Deprivation, and Poverty (Hardcover, New)
Brian Nolan, Christopher T. Whelan
R4,949 Discovery Miles 49 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Poverty alleviation is a central aim of economic and social policy, and yet there is no consensus about what poverty means or how it is best measured. Often, the households below an income poverty line are counted as poor, but there may be no firm basis for concentrating on that particular income level. There may also be wide variations among the households below any income poverty line in terms of their actual living standards. This book explores what poverty means in developed countries, and shows that understanding and measuring it requires widening the focus beyond current income. By using broader measures of resources and information on living patterns and concrete indicators of deprivation, it shows how those who are effectively excluded from participation in society due to lack of resources can be more accurately identified, and the processes producing such exclusion better understood. The core issue of this book is how to define and measure poverty in relatively rich countries in a way which is valid, meaningful in the context, and valuable for policy-making. Extensive analysis of data from a specially designed survey of a large representative sample of Irish households is used to illustrate the arguments.

Minority Perspectives (Hardcover): Dale Rogers Marshall, Daniel Wm. Fessler Minority Perspectives (Hardcover)
Dale Rogers Marshall, Daniel Wm. Fessler; Series edited by Lowdon Wingo Jr; Bernard Frieden
R3,407 Discovery Miles 34 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1972, Minority Perspectives is the second in a series exploring metropolitan problems within the government structure. The 1960's were a period of civils rights movements as well as poverty in the United States and in the 70's, it became clear that poverty was closely linked to race. This report sets out to explore issues contributing to the metropolitan-minority poverty problem such as racial exclusion and public policy. The papers included in this report discuss issues such as political power in metropolitan areas, the impact an address can have on economic opportunity for minority groups and the effects that laws and litigation can have on poverty. This title will be of interest to students of environmental and urban studies.

Amity and Prosperity - One Family and the Fracturing of America (Paperback): Eliza Griswold Amity and Prosperity - One Family and the Fracturing of America (Paperback)
Eliza Griswold
R520 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Earnings Inequality, Unemployment, and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover, New): Ghassan Dibeh, Wassim... Earnings Inequality, Unemployment, and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover, New)
Ghassan Dibeh, Wassim Shahin
R2,779 Discovery Miles 27 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The past ten years for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries have registered an extreme deterioration in at least one measure of social and economic welfare: earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty. The combination of slow economic growth, population explosion, and decline in labor productivity led to the reversal of the economic gains achieved during the economic boom in the 1970s. In contrast to that period, growth per capita (GDP) in 1980-1991 for Arab countries was -0.2%. Several indicators point to the extent of the problems faced today by the region's countries. Although the percentage of poverty declined for the majority of the regions in the world in 1985-1990, it has increased in the MENA region.

The purpose of this volume is to address the conditions of earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty in the MENA region and the problems associated with these factors; to determine the state and magnitude of these problems through various country studies; and to provide solutions to alleviate the negative conditions facing developing economies, with special emphasis on the MENA countries.

International Energy and Poverty - The emerging contours (Hardcover): Lakshman Guruswamy International Energy and Poverty - The emerging contours (Hardcover)
Lakshman Guruswamy
R4,647 Discovery Miles 46 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Globally, around 2.8 billion people, also known as the "Other Third" or "energy poor," have little or no access to beneficial energy that meets their needs for cooking, heating, water, sanitation, illumination, transportation, or basic mechanical power." "This book uniquely integrates the hitherto segmented and fragmented approaches to the challenge of access to energy. It provides theoretical, philosophical and practical analysis of energy for the low energy (non-hydrocarbon based) Other Third of the world, and how the unmet needs of the energy poor might be satisfied. It comprehensively addresses the range of issues relating to energy justice and energy access for all, including appropriate sustainable energy technologies (ASETs).

The book breaks new ground by crafting a unified and cohesive framework for analysis and action that:

  • Explains the factual and sociopolitical phenomenon of the energy poor whom lack clean energy for cooking, illumination, sanitation, drinking water, and mechanical or motive power.
  • Demonstrates why energy is the primary determinant of human progress.
  • Restates the conceptual and theoretical grounds found in moral and political philosophy, religious social teaching, and jurisprudence positing that the world ought to remedy the lack of access to energy.
  • Makes the case for using ASETs to supplement the quest for electricity, and provide an intermediary source of energy during the transition to electricity.
  • Recognizes the paucity of compelling information that promotes awareness of the negative impacts of energy poverty.
  • Addresses the behavioral issues associated with the successful deployment of ASETs, which include human dignity and cultural concerns.
  • Outlines the practical economic frameworks of energy sustainability based on quantitative metrics for how the lack of access to energy could be answered by electricity and ASETs.

This is a must-read for all scholars, students, professionals and policy makers working on energy policy, poverty, and sustainable energy technologies.

'Rogues and Vagabonds' - Vagrant Underworld in Britain 1815-1985 (Hardcover): Lionel Rose 'Rogues and Vagabonds' - Vagrant Underworld in Britain 1815-1985 (Hardcover)
Lionel Rose
R4,617 Discovery Miles 46 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this lively social history, first published in 1988, Lionel Rose explores in detail the plight of the street poor between 1815 and 1985. He describes the Victorian 'Rogues and Vagabonds' who made elicit peddling, begging frauds and other petty crime their profession. He considers the relevant legislation and systems for coping with the street poor, from the 1824 Vagrancy Act and accompanying improvements in policing, through the casual ward systems of the workhouses and the role of common lodging houses, to the development of Social Services in the 1940s and local authority provision of accommodation. This title will be of interest to students of history, criminology and sociology.

The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality - Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change (Paperback): Peter Dwyer, Lisa Scullion, Katy... The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality - Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change (Paperback)
Peter Dwyer, Lisa Scullion, Katy Jones, Jenny McNeill, Alasdair B. R. Stewart
R948 R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Save R145 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Should a citizen's right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour? Welfare conditionality, linking citizens' eligibility for social benefits and services to prescribed compulsory responsibilities or behaviours, has become a key component of welfare reform in many nations. This book uses qualitative longitudinal data, from repeat interviews with people subject to compulsion and sanction in their everyday lives, to analyse the effectiveness and ethicality of welfare conditionality in promoting and sustaining behaviour change in the UK. Given the negative outcomes that welfare conditionality routinely triggers, this book calls for the abandonment of these sanctions and reiterates the importance of genuinely supportive policies that promote social security and wider equality.

Ending Extreme Inequality - An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty (Paperback): Scott Myers-lipton Ending Extreme Inequality - An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty (Paperback)
Scott Myers-lipton
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Poverty and inequality are at record levels. Today, forty-seven million Americans live in poverty, while the median is in decline. The top 20 percent now controls 89 percent of all wealth. These conditions have renewed demands for a new economic Bill of Rights, an idea proposed by F. D. Roosevelt, Truman and Martin Luther King, Jr. The new Economic Bill of Rights has a coherent plan and proclaims that all Americans have the right to a job, a living wage, a decent home, adequate medical care, good education, and adequate protection from economic fears of unemployment, sickness and old age. Integrating the latest economic and social data, Ending Extreme Inequality explores each of these rights. Each chapter includes: an analysis of the social problems surrounding each right; a historical overview of the attempts to right these wrongs; and assessments of current solutions offered by citizens, community groups and politicians. These contemporary, real-life solutions to inequality can inspire students and citizens to become involved and open pathways toward a more just society.

Hardship & Health Womens Lives (Hardcover): Hilary Graham Hardship & Health Womens Lives (Hardcover)
Hilary Graham
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Cost of Not Educating the World's Poor - The new economics of learning (Hardcover): Lynn Ilon The Cost of Not Educating the World's Poor - The new economics of learning (Hardcover)
Lynn Ilon
R4,781 Discovery Miles 47 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In The Cost of Not Educating the World's Poor, Lynn Ilon observes from her 30 years of travel and work in some 20 developing countries, how global instability, problems of environmental degradation, spread of global disease, migration and political instability are a cost of viewing the uneducated poor as separated from a networked of fast-growing global knowledge. This book shows how powerful global learning systems are rapidly forming and linking the rich world with the world of the poor and developing nations. Using a narrative voice interleaved with concise introductions to the underlying theories (economics, development, learning, technology and networks) it shows us how changing our ways of thinking can lead to new possibilities. The Cost of Not Educating the World's Poor is based on an emerging theory of development economics and the author's own vast experiences and stories. It also discusses, among other issues: International development and how it has evolved toward an emphasis on knowledge How networked human capital creates new potential for poorly resourced countries The formation of a global system of learning networks The digitization of knowledge How nations improve their well-being through knowledge and equity This inter-disciplinary assessment of international learning inequality and the methods to overcome it will appeal to researchers concerned with emerging concepts of global learning networks and their effects on development. It will also be of interest to students and policymakers studying national inequality, economics, and global development.

Poor America - A Comparative-Historical Study of Poverty in the U.S. and Western Europe (Hardcover): Samuel J. Eldersveld Poor America - A Comparative-Historical Study of Poverty in the U.S. and Western Europe (Hardcover)
Samuel J. Eldersveld
R2,577 Discovery Miles 25 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Poor America describes the sharp contrast in the extent of poverty between the United States and six Western European countries. While 36 million Americans live below the poverty line, a much smaller percent of Western Europeans struggle with the same problem. Samuel J. Eldersveld seeks to discover why this variance exists by exploring various theories. To explain the larger percentage of American poor, he tackles the history of poverty in each of the featured countries along with examining the "system theory" approach, the role of values, the political elite character in the United States compared to Europe, and the differential robes of the business elites in these countries. Poor America follows the issue of poverty through the present day, discussing proposals and prospects for reform in poverty relief in the United States.

Poverty, Progress and Development (Paperback): Paul-Marc Henry Poverty, Progress and Development (Paperback)
Paul-Marc Henry
R1,500 Discovery Miles 15 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The studies of poverty, progress and development in this volume, first published in 1991, by a distinguished international roster of authors and researchers, aim to increase knowledge of the social mechanisms of pauperization, marginalization, and the exclusion of certain categories of society; to bring to light the potential and creative role of socio-cultural, intellectual, ethical, moral and spiritual values in progress and the development process; and to examine the links and contradictions between development and progress in order to propose ways of reducing social inequalities.

The widening gap - Health inequalities and policy in Britain (Paperback): Mary Shaw, Daniel Dorling, David Gordon, George... The widening gap - Health inequalities and policy in Britain (Paperback)
Mary Shaw, Daniel Dorling, David Gordon, George Davey-Smith
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Relentlessly, the wide health gap between different groups of people living in Britain continues to get even wider. This book presents new evidence (which was not available to the government's Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health) on the size of the gap, and the extent to which the gap is widening. In particular, new geographical data are presented and displayed in striking graphical form. It challenges whether the government is concerned enough about reducing inequalities and highlights the living conditions of the million people living in the least healthy areas in Britain. It presents explanations for the widening health gap, and addresses the implications of this major social problem. In the light of this evidence the authors put forward social policies which will reduce the health gap in the future. The widening gap synthesises all the information available to date and should be read alongside the report of the evidence presented to the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (Inequalities in health, The Policy Press, 1999) and by all those concerned with reducing health inequalities. Studies in poverty, inequality and social exclusion series Series Editor: David Gordon, Director, Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research. Poverty, inequality and social exclusion remain the most fundamental problems that humanity faces in the 21st century. This exciting series, published in association with the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol, aims to make cutting-edge poverty related research more widely available. For other titles in this series, please follow the series link from the main catalogue page.

A Year Like No Other - Life on a Low Income during COVID-19 (Paperback): Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Jim... A Year Like No Other - Life on a Low Income during COVID-19 (Paperback)
Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Jim Kaufman, Geoff Page, …
R556 R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Save R64 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Money was already tight for UK families living on a low income before the COVID-19 pandemic, but national lockdowns made life much harder. Telling the stories of these families, this book exposes the ways that pre-existing inequalities, insecurities and hardships were amplified during the pandemic for families who were already in poverty before COVID-19, as well as those pushed into poverty by the economic fallout it created. Drawing on the Covid Realities research programme, and developed in partnership with parents and carers, it explores experiences of home-schooling, social security receipt and government, community and charitable support. This book sets out all that is wrong with the status quo, while also offering a powerful agenda for change. Also see 'COVID-19 Collaborations: Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic' (Open Access) to find out more about the challenges of carrying out research during COVID-19.

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