Bootstrap Dreams

Author : Nancy Jurik
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501731372

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Bootstrap Dreams by Nancy Jurik Pdf

Declines in real wages, increases in the number of poor families, and cutbacks to welfare and other safety-net programs have stimulated the popularity of microenterprise development programs (MDPs). These programs typically offer training and loans to individuals seeking to operate very small businesses. MDPs are often presented as a path to the self-sufficiency that comes with entrepreneurship and as an example of the success of market-based alternatives to government programs. In Bootstrap Dreams, Nancy C. Jurik analyzes the origins and maturation of these programs in the United States. Based on a national sample of fifty programs and an eight-year case study of one in particular, this is a rare book about microenterprise development. Jurik understands the positive social mission of MDPs, but she is not blind to the problems that they encounter. Jurik's clear perception of potential difficulties and her keen ability to place the microenterprise movement in the larger context of welfare reform and globalization make Bootstrap Dreams a valuable book.

Author : Luz del Alba Acevedo
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822327651

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Telling to Live by Luz del Alba Acevedo Pdf

DIVAn anthology of testimonials from Latina/Chicana feminists - some of whom are well known - which give insight into their personal life experiences and break barriers and assumptions./div

Author : Michael B. Katz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812205206

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Why Don't American Cities Burn? by Michael B. Katz Pdf

At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia—one of seven homicides to occur in the city that day and yet not make the major newspapers. For Michael B. Katz, an urban historian and a juror on the murder trial, the story of Manes and Shorty exemplified the marginalization, social isolation, and indifference that plague American cities. Introduced by the gripping narrative of this murder and its circumstances, Why Don't American Cities Burn? charts the emergence of the urban forms that underlie such events. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. He shows how the bifurcation of black social structures produced a new African American inequality and traces the shift from images of a pathological black "underclass" to praise of the entrepreneurial poor who take advantage of new technologies of poverty work to find the beginning of the path to the middle class. He explores the reasons American cities since the early 1970s have remained relatively free of collective violence while black men in bleak inner-city neighborhoods have turned their rage inward on one another rather than on the agents and symbols of a culture and political economy that exclude them. The book ends with a meditation on how the political left and right have come to believe that urban transformation is inevitably one of failure and decline abetted by the response of government to deindustrialization, poverty, and race. How, Katz asks, can we construct a new narrative that acknowledges the dark side of urban history even as it demonstrates the capacity of government to address the problems of cities and their residents? How can we create a politics of modest hope?

Author : Tehila Sasson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691250380

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The Solidarity Economy by Tehila Sasson Pdf

The untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empire After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organizations. Utilizing existing imperial networks and colonial bureaucracy, the nonprofit sector sought an ethical capitalism, one that would equalize relationships between British consumers and Third World producers as the age of empire was ending. The Solidarity Economy examines the role of nonstate actors in the major transformations of the world economy in the postwar era, showing how British NGOs charted a path to neoliberalism in their pursuit of ethical markets. Between the 1950s and 1990s, nonprofits sought to establish an alternative to Keynesianism through their welfare and development programs. Encouraging the fair trade of commodities and goods through microfinance, consumer boycotts, and corporate social responsibility, these programs emphasized decentralization, privatization, and entrepreneurship. Tehila Sasson tells the stories of the activists, economists, politicians, and businessmen who reimagined the marketplace as a workshop for global reform. She reveals how their ideas, though commonly associated with conservative neoliberal policies, were part of a nonprofit-driven endeavor by the liberal left to envision markets as autonomous and humanizing spaces, facilitating ethical relationships beyond the impersonal realm of the state. Drawing on dozens of newly available repositories from nongovernmental, international, national, and business archives, The Solidarity Economy reconstructs the political economy of these markets—from handicrafts and sugar to tea and coffee—shedding critical light on the postimperial origins of neoliberalism.

Author : Lisa Levenstein
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465095292

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They Didn't See Us Coming by Lisa Levenstein Pdf

From an award-winning scholar, a vibrant portrait of a pivotal moment in the history of the feminist movement From the declaration of the "Year of the Woman" to the televising of Anita Hill's testimony, from Bitch magazine to SisterSong's demands for reproductive justice: the 90s saw the birth of some of the most lasting aspects of contemporary feminism. Historian Lisa Levenstein tracks this time of intense and international coalition building, one that centered on the growing influence of lesbians, women of color, and activists from the global South. Their work laid the foundation for the feminist energy seen in today's movements, including the 2017 Women's March and #MeToo campaigns. A revisionist history of the origins of contemporary feminism, They Didn't See Us Coming shows how women on the margins built a movement at the dawn of the Digital Age.

Author : Alfredo Lopez
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0896082571

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Dona Licha's Island by Alfredo Lopez Pdf

Lopez examines the history of Puerto Rico from the extermination of the native Taino population, the importation of African slaves and Spanish colonial culture, to the 1980s movements for labor, student, and women's rights, and the debates over statehood or independence.

Author : James Midgley,Michelle Livermore
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412950770

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The Handbook of Social Policy by James Midgley,Michelle Livermore Pdf

'The Handbook of Social Policy' is a comprehensive examination of the development, implementation and impact of social policy. The contributors document the substantial body of knowledge about government social policies and their driving forces.

Author : Colin C. Williams
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788975612

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A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy by Colin C. Williams Pdf

This Modern Guide presents a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary thought on the informal economy, which, as the author demonstrates – far from being a peripheral feature of the global economy – is a system in which the majority of the global workforce are employed and which has pervasive detrimental effects. Formalising it is therefore a priority for most governments.

Author : Lily Geismer
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541756984

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Left Behind by Lily Geismer Pdf

The 40-year history of how Democrats chose political opportunity over addressing inequality—and how the poor have paid the price For decades, the Republican Party has been known as the party of the rich: arguing for “business-friendly” policies like deregulation and tax cuts. But this incisive political history shows that the current inequality crisis was also enabled by a Democratic Party that catered to the affluent. The result is one of the great missed opportunities in political history: a moment when we had the chance to change the lives of future generations and were too short-sighted to take it. Historian Lily Geismer recounts how the Clinton-era Democratic Party sought to curb poverty through economic growth and individual responsibility rather than asking the rich to make any sacrifices. Fueled by an ethos of “doing well by doing good,” microfinance, charter schools, and privately funded housing developments grew trendy. Though politically expedient and sometimes profitable in the short term, these programs fundamentally weakened the safety net for the poor. This piercingly intelligent book shows how bygone policy decisions have left us with skyrocketing income inequality and poverty in America and widened fractures within the Democratic Party that persist to this day.

Author : Annessa Ann Babic,Tanfer Emin Tunc
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443814560

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The Globetrotting Shopaholic by Annessa Ann Babic,Tanfer Emin Tunc Pdf

The thrust of the literature on consumer space and society focuses on product labeling, marketing techniques and approaches to branding, as well as how mass consumer culture has reshaped individuals' interaction with needs and desires. Globetrotting Shopaholics departs from this current discourse by examining both consumption venues and the cultural, political and social reasons why we consume. It elucidates international trends in consumption politics, and how they impact the creation of consumer spaces, which, in this book, takes the form of numerous global loci including Canada's West Edmonton Mall, Japanese theme parks, shopping venues in the Philippines, and expat boutiques in Budapest. Using a wide range of epistemological frameworks including cultural ethnography, historical analysis, literary theory, sociological dissection, anthropological examination, and philosophical ruminations, this collection conveys how material objects and lifestyles are accumulated and represented internationally, and how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.

Author : Bert O. States
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0300105649

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Seeing in the Dark by Bert O. States Pdf

Explores the nature of dream imagery, the metaphorical processes in dreaming, and the nature and sources of dream narratives.

Author : Whitney L. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351862011

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Dare, Dream, Do by Whitney L. Johnson Pdf

Thinkers50 Management Thinker of 2015 Whitney Johnson has a goal: to help us identify and achieve our dreams. Her belief is that we can each achieve greater happiness when focusing both on our dreams and on other people in our lives. In this inspiring book, Johnson directs her attention to teaching women, in particular, a three-step model for personal advancement and happiness. She first encourages us to Dare to boldly step out, to consider disrupting life as we know it. Then she teaches us how to Dream, to give life to the many possibilities available, whether to start a business, run a marathon, or travel the world. She shows us how to "date" our dreams (no need to commit!) and how to make space for dreams. Finally, Whitney's model brings out the businesswoman in her; she teaches us to Do, to execute our dreams. She showcases the importance of sharing dreams with others to give them life, creating your own "dream team." Rich with real stories of women who have dared to dream, Dare, Dream, Do offers a practical framework for making remarkable things happen.

Author : James DeFilippis,Susan Saegert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135705237

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The Community Development Reader by James DeFilippis,Susan Saegert Pdf

The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With chapters written by some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, the book presents a diverse set of perspectives on community development. These selections inform the reader about established and emerging community development institutions and practices as well as the main debates in the field. The second edition is significantly updated and expanded to include a section on globalization as well as new chapters on the foreclosure crisis, and emerging forms of community .

Author : S. Pickering,J. McCulloch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137283825

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Borders and Crime by S. Pickering,J. McCulloch Pdf

The collection considers the growing importance of the border as a prime site for criminal justice activity and explores the impact of border policing on human rights and global justice. It covers a range of subjects from e-trafficking, child soldiers, the 'global war on terror' in Africa and police activities that generate crime.

Author : Drew Humphries
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Women, Violence, and the Media by Drew Humphries Pdf