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Toronto's Poor

Bryan D. Palmer,Gaétan Héroux
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Author : Bryan D. Palmer,Gaétan Héroux
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771132824

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Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how people without housing, people living in poverty, and unemployed people have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present. Written by a historian of the working class and a poor people’s activist, this is a rebellious book that links past and present in an almost two-hundred year story of struggle and resistance. It is about men, women, and children relegated to lives of desperation by an uncaring system, and how they have refused to be defeated. In that refusal, and in winning better conditions for themselves, Toronto’s poor create the possibility of a new kind of society, one ordered not by acquisition and individual advance, but by appreciations of collective rights and responsibilities.

The Privileged Poor

Anthony Abraham Jack
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Author : Anthony Abraham Jack
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674239661

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An NPR Favorite Book of the Year Winner of the Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award Winner of the CEP–Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship “Eye-opening...Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on elite institutions.” —Washington Post “Jack’s investigation redirects attention from the matter of access to the matter of inclusion...His book challenges universities to support the diversity they indulge in advertising.” —New Yorker “The lesson is plain—simply admitting low-income students is just the start of a university’s obligations. Once they’re on campus, colleges must show them that they are full-fledged citizen.” —David Kirp, American Prospect “This book should be studied closely by anyone interested in improving diversity and inclusion in higher education and provides a moving call to action for us all.” —Raj Chetty, Harvard University The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In this bracing exposé, Anthony Jack shows that many students’ struggles continue long after they’ve settled in their dorms. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This powerfully argued book documents how university policies and campus culture can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why some students are harder hit than others.

Poor Things

Alasdair Gray
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Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063386693

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Basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. "Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter. Supposedly the product of the fiendish scientist Godwin Baxter, Bella was resurrected for the sole purpose of fulfilling the whims of her benefactor. As his desire turns to obsession, Archibald’s motives to free Bella are revealed to be as selfish as Godwin’s, who claims her body and soul. But Bella has her own passions to pursue. Passions that take her to aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria, and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church. Exploring her station as a woman in the shadow of the patriarchy, Bella knows it is up to her to free herself—and to decide what meaning, if any, true love has in her life. “Gray has the look of a latter-day William Blake, with his extravagant myth-making, his strong social conscience, his liberating vision of sexuality and his flashes of righteous indignation tempered with scathing wit and sly self-mockery.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “This work of inspired lunacy effectively skewers class snobbery, British imperialism, prudishness and the tenets of received wisdom.”—Publishers Weekly

Happy are You Poor

Thomas Dubay
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Author : Thomas Dubay
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681492254

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To the modern mind, the concept of poverty is often confused with destitution. But destitution emphatically is not the Gospel ideal. A love-filled sharing frugality is the message, and Happy Are You Poor explains the meaning of this beatitude lived and taught by Jesus himself. But isn't simplicity in lifestyle meant only for nuns and priests? Are not all of us to enjoy the goodness and beauties of our magnificent creation? Are parents to be frugal with the children they love so much? The renowned spiritual writer Dubay gives surprising replies to these questions. He explains how material things are like extensions of our persons and thus of our love. If everyone lived this love there would be no destitution. After presenting the richness of the Gospel message, more beautiful than any other world view, he explains how Gospel frugality is lived in each state of life.

So Rich, So Poor

Peter Edelman
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Author : Peter Edelman
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781595589576

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“A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field.” —Kirkus Reviews Income disparities in our wealthy nation are wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today’s economy has stultified wage growth for half of America’s workers—with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color—while bestowing billions on the few at the very top. In this “accessible and inspiring analysis”, lifelong anti-poverty advocate Peter Edelman assesses how the United States can have such an outsized number of unemployed and working poor despite important policy gains. He delves into what is happening to the people behind the statistics and takes a particular look at young people of color, for whom the possibility of productive lives is too often lost on the way to adulthood (Angela Glover Blackwell). For anyone who wants to understand one of the critical issues of twenty-first century America, So Rich, So Poor is “engaging and informative” (William Julius Wilson) and “powerful and eloquent” (Wade Henderson).

Living Poor; a Peace Corps Chronicle

Moritz Thomsen
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Author : Moritz Thomsen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0295969288

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At the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements in the human situation--including his own--and his ability to convey it in fast-moving, earthy prose have madeLiving Poora classic. "Hilariously funny at times, grimly sad at others and elavened with perceptive insights into the ways of the people and with breathtaking descriptions of the Ecuadorian landscape."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Just Give Money to the Poor

Joseph Hanlon,Armando Barrientos,David Hulme
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Author : Joseph Hanlon,Armando Barrientos,David Hulme
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781565493902

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* Argues strongly for overlooked approach to development by showing how the poor use money in ways that confound stereotypical notions of aid and handouts * Team authored by foremost scholars in the development field Amid all the complicated economic theories about the causes and solutions to poverty, one idea is so basic it seems radical: just give money to the poor. Despite its skeptics, researchers have found again and again that cash transfers given to significant portions of the population transform the lives of recipients. Countries from Mexico to South Africa to Indonesia are giving money directly to the poor and discovering that they use it wisely “ to send their children to school, to start a business and to feed their families. Directly challenging an aid industry that thrives on complexity and mystification, with highly paid consultants designing ever more complicated projects, Just Give Money to the Pooroffers the elegant southern alternative “ bypass governments and NGOs and let the poor decide how to use their money. Stressing that cash transfers are not charity or a safety net, the authors draw an outline of effective practices that work precisely because they are regular, guaranteed and fair. This book, the first to report on this quiet revolution in an accessible way, is essential reading for policymakers, students of international development and anyone yearning for an alternative to traditional poverty-alleviation methods.

Poor Economics

Abhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo
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Author : Abhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610391603

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Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo Pdf

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. Called "marvelous, rewarding" by the Wall Street Journal, the book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.

Governing the Poor

Suzan Ilcan,Anita Lacey
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Author : Suzan Ilcan,Anita Lacey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773586536

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Every day, we are barraged by statistics, images, and emotional messages that present poverty as a problem to be quantified, managed, and solved. Global generations present the poor as a heterogeneous group and stress globalized solutions to the problem of poverty. Governing the Poor exposes the ways in which such generalized descriptions and quantifications marginalize the poor and their experiences.

The Book of the Poor

Kenan Heise
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Author : Kenan Heise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poor
ISBN : 1936863332

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"Collecting dozens of interviews conducted over 50 years to give voice to the 16 percent that live below the poverty line, journalist Kenan Heise ... addresses unemployment, prison, nutrition needs and hunger, the lives of impoverished children, panhandling, health-care struggles, the role of race in poverty, and Dumpster diving"--P. [4] of cover.

Rich and Poor

Jacob Wren
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Author : Jacob Wren
Publisher : Book*hug Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771662387

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The story of a middle-class, immigrant pianist who has fallen on hard times, and now finds himself washing dishes to make ends meet. He awakens to the possibility of a solution to his troubles and begins to formulate a plan of attack, in which the only answer is to get rid of the 1%.

Information Lives of the Poor

Laurent Elder,Rohan Samarajiva,Alison Gillwald,Hernan Galperin
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Author : Laurent Elder,Rohan Samarajiva,Alison Gillwald,Hernan Galperin
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552505717

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Information Lives of the Poor by Laurent Elder,Rohan Samarajiva,Alison Gillwald,Hernan Galperin Pdf

Information and communication have always opened opportunities for the poor to earn income, reduce isolation, and respond resiliently to emergencies. With mobile phone use exploding across the developing world, even marginalized communities are now benefiting from modern communication tools. This book explores the impacts of this unprecedented technological change. It looks at how the poor use information and communication technologies (ICTs). How they benefit from mobile devices, computers, and the Internet, and what insights can research provide to promote affordable access to ICTs, so that communities across the developing world can take advantage of the opportunities they offer.

Brothers, Black and Poor

Sylvester Monroe,Peter Louis Goldman
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Author : Sylvester Monroe,Peter Louis Goldman
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001364741

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Brothers, Black and Poor by Sylvester Monroe,Peter Louis Goldman Pdf

"Newsweek book." Presents a group portrait of the author's boyhood friends growing up in a dangerous Chicago housing project.

Why Africa is Poor

Greg Mills
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Author : Greg Mills
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780143529033

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Economic growth does not demand a secret formula. Good development examples now abound in East Asia and further afield in others parts of Asia, and in Central America. But why then has Africa failed to realise its potential in half a century of independence? Why Africa is Poor demonstrates that Africa is poor not because the world has denied the continent the market and financial means to compete: far from it. It has not been because of aid per se. Nor is African poverty solely a consequence of poor infrastructure or trade access, or because the necessary development and technical expertise is unavailable internationally. Why then has the continent lagged behind other developing areas when its people work hard and the continent is blessed with abundant natural resources? Stomping across the continent and the developing world in search of the answer, Greg Mills controversially shows that the main reason why Africa's people are poor is because their leaders have made this choice.

Who Speaks for the Poor?

Karen Long Jusko
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Author : Karen Long Jusko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108419888

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Explains cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, focusing attention on the electoral geography of income.