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

The Millipede Effect - My Quest to Understand and Help the Homeless, Stranded and Down and Out (Hardcover): Rodney D. Brooks The Millipede Effect - My Quest to Understand and Help the Homeless, Stranded and Down and Out (Hardcover)
Rodney D. Brooks
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Alleviating Global Poverty - The Role of Private Enterprise (Hardcover): Lewis D. Solomon Alleviating Global Poverty - The Role of Private Enterprise (Hardcover)
Lewis D. Solomon
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa - Evidence Informed Practice for Unemployed and Disadvantaged Youth... Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa - Evidence Informed Practice for Unemployed and Disadvantaged Youth (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Celestin Mayombe
R3,118 Discovery Miles 31 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyses the accessibility and success of vocational training programmes for unemployed and disadvantaged youth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Examining the implementation of vocational education and training programmes, the author assesses various internal and external enabling factors that can help foster youth employment. In doing so, the author presents a solid base for robust and evidence-informed practice and policy making for vocational training programmes, analysing such themes as employability skills, the labour market, and work-integrated learning. It also emphasises the importance of stakeholders taking into account the enabling and disabling environments found in a given local, regional or national context. It will be of interest to scholars of vocational training programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, as well as of youth poverty and unemployment.

Sermon on the Mount - Dare to Differ (Hardcover): Seth B Kajang Sermon on the Mount - Dare to Differ (Hardcover)
Seth B Kajang
R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
New Rules for Global Justice - Structural Redistribution in the Global Economy (Hardcover): Jan Aart Scholte, Lorenzo... New Rules for Global Justice - Structural Redistribution in the Global Economy (Hardcover)
Jan Aart Scholte, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Alfred G. Nhema
R3,119 Discovery Miles 31 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Today's globalised world means offshore finance, airport boutiques and high-speed Internet for some people, against dollar-a-day wages, used t-shirts, and illiteracy for others. How do these highly skewed global distributions happen, and what can be done to counter them? New Rules for Global Justice engages with widespread public disquiet around global inequality. It explores (mal)distributions in relation to country, class, gender and race, with international examples drawn from Australia to Zimbabwe. The book is action-oriented and empowering, presenting concrete proposals for 'new rules' in regard to climate change, corruption, finance, food, investment, the Internet, migration and more.

Fostering Resilience and Well-Being in Children and Families in Poverty - Why Hope Still Matters (Hardcover): Valerie Maholmes Fostering Resilience and Well-Being in Children and Families in Poverty - Why Hope Still Matters (Hardcover)
Valerie Maholmes
R2,239 Discovery Miles 22 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The number of children living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level increased by 33 percent between 2000 and 2009, resulting in over 15 million children living in poverty. Some of these children are able to overcome this dark statistic and break the intergenerational transmission of poverty, offering hope to an otherwise bleak outlook, but this raises the question-how? In Fostering Resilience and Well-Being in Children and Families in Poverty, Dr. Valerie Maholmes sheds light on the mechanisms and processes that enable children and families to manage and overcome adversity. She explains that research findings on children and poverty often unite around three critical factors related to risk for poverty-related adversity: family structure, the presence of buffers that can protect children from negative influences, and the association between poverty and negative academic outcomes, and social and behavioral problems. She discusses how the research on resilience can inform better interventions for these children, as poverty does not necessarily preclude children from having strengths that may protect against its effects. Importantly, Maholmes introduces the concept of "hope" as a primary construct for understanding how the effects of poverty can be ameliorated. At the heart of the book are interviews with family members who have experienced adversity but managed to overcome it through the support of targeted programs and evidence-based interventions. Student leaders provide unique perspectives on the important role that parents and teachers play in motivating youth to succeed. Finally, professionals who work with children and families share their observations on effective interventions and the roles of culture and spirituality in fostering positive outcomes. Excerpts from these interviews bring research to life and help call attention to processes that promote hope and resilience. This book will be invaluable for policymakers, educators, and community and advocacy groups, as well as scholars and students in family studies, human development, and social work.

Manifesto for a Moral Revolution - Practices to Build a Better World (Paperback): Jacqueline Novogratz Manifesto for a Moral Revolution - Practices to Build a Better World (Paperback)
Jacqueline Novogratz
R438 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R30 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An instant classic. --Arianna Huffington Will inspire people from across the political spectrum. --Jonathan Haidt Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, an essential shortlist of leadership ideas for everyone who wants to do good in this world, from Jacqueline Novogratz, author of the New York Times bestseller The Blue Sweater and founder and CEO of Acumen. In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the world tackles poverty, few had heard of impact investing--Acumen's practice of "doing well by doing good." Nineteen years later, there's been a seismic shift in how corporate boards and other stakeholders evaluate businesses: impact investment is not only morally defensible but now also economically advantageous, even necessary. Still, it isn't easy to reach a success that includes profits as well as mutually favorable relationships with workers and the communities in which they live. So how can today's leaders, who often kick off their enterprises with high hopes and short timetables, navigate the challenges of poverty and war, of egos and impatience, which have stymied generations of investors who came before? Drawing on inspiring stories from change-makers around the world and on memories of her own most difficult experiences, Jacqueline divulges the most common leadership mistakes and the mind-sets needed to rise above them. The culmination of thirty years of work developing sustainable solutions for the problems of the poor, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution offers the perspectives necessary for all those--whether ascending the corporate ladder or bringing solar light to rural villages--who seek to leave this world better off than they found it.

The War on Poverty - A Retrospective (Hardcover): Kyle Farmbry The War on Poverty - A Retrospective (Hardcover)
Kyle Farmbry
R3,046 Discovery Miles 30 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In January of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War on Poverty." Over the next several years, the United States launched several programs aimed at drastically reducing the level of poverty throughout the nation. Now fifty years later, we have a number of lessons related to what has and has not worked in the fight against poverty. This book is a collection of chapters by both researchers and practitioners studying and addressing matters of poverty as they intersect with a number of broader social challenges such as health care, education, and criminal justice issues. The War on Poverty: A Retrospective serves as a collection of many of their observations, thoughts, and findings. Ultimately, the authors reflect on some of the lessons of the past fifty years and ask basic questions about poverty and its continued impact on American society, as well as how we might continue to address the challenges that poverty presents for our nation.

From Changing Diapers to Changing the World - Why Moms Make Great Advocates and How to Get Started (Hardcover): Cynthia... From Changing Diapers to Changing the World - Why Moms Make Great Advocates and How to Get Started (Hardcover)
Cynthia Changyit Levin
R730 Discovery Miles 7 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
End Homelessness Now! - The Road to a Solution. (Hardcover, First Edition. ed.): J.M. Montgomery End Homelessness Now! - The Road to a Solution. (Hardcover, First Edition. ed.)
J.M. Montgomery
R1,166 Discovery Miles 11 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
London Labour and the London Poor; a Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work,... London Labour and the London Poor; a Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will not Work (Hardcover)
Henry Mayhew, William Tuckniss, Richard Beeard
R1,077 Discovery Miles 10 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
At Home In The World - Sounds and Symmetries of Belonging [ZLS Edition] (Hardcover): John Hill At Home In The World - Sounds and Symmetries of Belonging [ZLS Edition] (Hardcover)
John Hill
R1,116 Discovery Miles 11 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Philosophical Musings for a Meaningful Life - An Analysis of K.V. Dominic's Poems (Hardcover): S. Kumaran Philosophical Musings for a Meaningful Life - An Analysis of K.V. Dominic's Poems (Hardcover)
S. Kumaran; Foreword by Stephen Gill; Introduction by K. V. Dominic
R850 Discovery Miles 8 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Battle Against Hunger - Choice, Circumstance, and the World Bank (Hardcover): Devi Sridhar The Battle Against Hunger - Choice, Circumstance, and the World Bank (Hardcover)
Devi Sridhar
R3,211 Discovery Miles 32 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

We live in an increasingly prosperous world, yet the estimated number of undernourished people has risen, and will continue to rise with the doubling of food prices. A large majority of those affected are living in India. Why have strategies to combat hunger, especially in India, failed so badly? How did a nation that prides itself on booming economic growth come to have half of its preschool population undernourished?
Using the case study of a World Bank nutrition project in India, this book takes on these questions and probes the issues surrounding development assistance, strategies to eliminate undernutrition, and how hunger should be fundamentally understood and addressed.
Throughout the book, the underlying tension between choice and circumstance is explored. How much are individuals able to determine their life choices? How much should policy-makers take underlying social forces into account when designing policy? This book examines the possibilities, and obstacles, to eliminating child hunger.
This book is not just about nutrition. It is an attempt to uncover the workings of power through a close look at the structures, discourses, and agencies through which nutrition policy operates. In this process, the source of nutrition policy in the World Bank is traced to those affected by the policies in India.

Blacks and Poverty (Hardcover): Raymond L Chukwu Blacks and Poverty (Hardcover)
Raymond L Chukwu
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Employment Legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games - A Case Study of East London (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Niloufar Vadiati The Employment Legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games - A Case Study of East London (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Niloufar Vadiati
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a detailed account of the employment promises made to local East Londoners when the Summer Olympic Games 2012 were awarded to London, as well as an examination of how those promises had morphed into the Olympic Labor market jamboree from which local communities were excluded. Regarding the global job market of London, this study provides a nuanced empirical view on how the world's biggest mega event was experienced and endured in terms employment by its immediate hosts, in one of the UK's poorest, most ethnically complex, and transient areas. The data has been collected through ethnographic observation and interviews with local residents, and expert interviews with the Olympic delivery professionals. Using Bourdieusian theory of contested capital, the findings provide an important bearing on the reproduction of inequality in the local labor markets of Olympic host cities.

Making $ense Of Your Finances - 21 Weeks to a New Financial You (Hardcover): Myrna L. Goehri Etheridge Making $ense Of Your Finances - 21 Weeks to a New Financial You (Hardcover)
Myrna L. Goehri Etheridge
R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Rebuilding Your Life - 12 Benefits of Christian Redemption (Hardcover): Timothy Lanigan Rebuilding Your Life - 12 Benefits of Christian Redemption (Hardcover)
Timothy Lanigan
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
America's Growing Inequality - The Impact of Poverty and Race (Hardcover): Chester Hartman America's Growing Inequality - The Impact of Poverty and Race (Hardcover)
Chester Hartman; Foreword by Chicago Congressman Luis V Gutierrez
R4,177 Discovery Miles 41 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council from 2006 to the present. Authors are some of the leading figures in a range of activities around these themes. It is the fourth such book PRRAC has published over the years, each with a high-visibility foreword writer: Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. Bill Bradley, Julian Bond in previous books, Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Chicago for this book. The chapters are organized into four sections: Race & Poverty: The Structural Underpinnings; Deconstructing Poverty and Racial Inequities; Re(emerging) Issues; Civil Rights History.

A People's War on Poverty - Urban Politics and Grassroots Activists in Houston (Hardcover, New): Wesley G. Phelps A People's War on Poverty - Urban Politics and Grassroots Activists in Houston (Hardcover, New)
Wesley G. Phelps
R2,749 Discovery Miles 27 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In "A People's War on Poverty," Wesley G. Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. He argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy and the rights of citizenship that historians have largely overlooked. In Houston in particular, the War on Poverty spawned fierce political battles that revealed fundamental disagreements over what democracy meant, how far it should extend, and who should benefit from it. Many of the program's implementers took seriously the federal mandate to empower the poor as they pushed for a more participatory form of democracy that would include more citizens in the political, cultural, and economic life of the city.

At the center of this book are the vitally important but virtually forgotten grassroots activists who administered federal War on Poverty programs, including church ministers, federal program volunteers, students, local administrators, civil rights activists, and the poor themselves. The moderate Great Society liberalism that motivated the architects of the federal programs certainly galvanized local antipoverty activists in Houston. However, their antipoverty philosophy was driven further by prophetic religious traditions and visions of participatory democracy and community organizing championed by the New Left and iconoclastic figures like Saul Alinsky. By focusing on these local actors, Phelps shows that grassroots activists in Houston were influenced by a much more diverse set of intellectual and political traditions, fueling their efforts to expand the meaning of democracy. Ultimately, this episode in Houston's history reveals both the possibilities and the limits of urban democracy in the twentieth century.

Rich Democracies, Poor People - How Politics Explain Poverty (Hardcover, New): David Brady Rich Democracies, Poor People - How Politics Explain Poverty (Hardcover, New)
David Brady
R3,711 Discovery Miles 37 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Poverty is not an individual's choice. Nor, as David Brady demonstrates, is it necessary. Building on the latest scholarship in poverty studies, this book points out that among affluent Western societies, there is immense cross-national and historical variation in poverty. Brady seeks to determine what makes poverty so entrenched in some affluent democracies whereas it is a solvable problem in others. He illustrates that, among these democracies, the United States is in the worst shape, with three times as much poverty as some West European countries. In the U.S., nearly 20% of the population is poor, as are almost a fourth of U.S. children and elderly. Searching for the causes of this dilemma, Brady puts forth a sweeping new theory to explain that the fundamental cause of poverty is politics, starting from the simple claim that the distribution of resources in states and markets is inherently political. Societies make collective choices about how to divide their resources, and these choices are institutionalized. Brady points out that where poverty is low, equality has been institutionalized, and where poverty is widespread, as most visibly demonstrated by the US, there has been a failure to institutionalize equality. Hence, it is a society that collectively decides how much of the population will be economically secure. Countries with a relatively low level of poverty in fact socialize the responsibility of preventing citizens from being poor. This book effectively tackles the issue of how this collective responsibility is conceived and institutionalized, by defining the mechanisms that shape this ideology, or prevent it from coming into being. David Brady offers promising new directions for understanding the politics of social equality, and takes an ambitious step forward in the struggle against poverty.

World Widows Report - A Critical Issue for the Sustainable Development Goals (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): The Loomba Foundation World Widows Report - A Critical Issue for the Sustainable Development Goals (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
The Loomba Foundation
R1,367 R1,253 Discovery Miles 12 530 Save R114 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Poverty Impacts on Literacy Education (Hardcover): Jill Tussey, Leslie Haas Poverty Impacts on Literacy Education (Hardcover)
Jill Tussey, Leslie Haas
R5,826 Discovery Miles 58 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Income disparity for students in both K-12 and higher education settings has become increasingly apparent since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the wake of these changes, impoverished students face a variety of challenges both internal and external. Educators must deepen their awareness of the obstacles students face beyond the classroom to support learning. Traditional literacy education must evolve to become culturally, linguistically, and socially relevant to bridge the gap between poverty and academic literacy opportunities. Poverty Impacts on Literacy Education develops a conceptual framework and pedagogical support for literacy education practices related to students in poverty. The research provides protocols supporting student success through explored connections between income disparity and literacy instruction. Covering topics such as food insecurity, integrated instruction, and the poverty narrative, this is an essential resource for administration in both K-12 and higher education settings, professors and teachers in literacy, curriculum directors, researchers, instructional facilitators, pre-service teachers, school counselors, teacher preparation programs, and students.

Intersection of Poverty, Class and Schooling - Creating Global Economic Opportunity and Class Equity (Hardcover): Elinor L.... Intersection of Poverty, Class and Schooling - Creating Global Economic Opportunity and Class Equity (Hardcover)
Elinor L. Brown, Paul C Gorski, Gabriella Lazaridis
R3,208 Discovery Miles 32 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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

Psychosocial Implications of Poverty - Diversities and Resistances (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Veronica Morais Ximenes, James... Psychosocial Implications of Poverty - Diversities and Resistances (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Veronica Morais Ximenes, James Ferreira Moura Jr., Elivia Camurca Cidade, Barbara Barbosa Nepomuceno
R2,901 Discovery Miles 29 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a multidimensional, psychosocial and critical understanding of poverty by bringing together studies carried out with groups in different contexts and situations of deprivation in Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Nicaragua and Spain. The book is divided in two parts. The first part presents studies that unveil the psychosocial implications of poverty by revealing the processes of domination based on the stigmatization and criminalization of poor people, which contribute to maintain realities of social inequality. The second part presents studies focused on strategies to fight poverty and forms of resistance developed by individuals who are in situations of marginalization.The studies presented in this contributed volume depart from the theoretical framework developed by Critical Social Psychology, Community Psychology and Liberation Psychology, in an effort to understand poverty beyond its monetary dimension, bringing social, cultural, structural and subjective factors into the analysis. Psychological science in general has not produced specific knowledge about poverty as a result of the relations of domination produced by social inequalities fostered by the capitalist system. This book seeks to fill this gap by presenting a psychosocial perspective with psychological and sociological bases aligned in a dialectical way in order to understand and confront poverty. Psychosocial Implications of Poverty - Diversities and Resistances will be of interest to social psychologists, sociologists and economists interested in multidimensional studies of poverty, as well as to policy makers and activists directly working with the development of policies and strategies to fight poverty.

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