Poverty And Pacification

Author : Dorothy J. Solinger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538154960

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Poverty and Pacification by Dorothy J. Solinger Pdf

This groundbreaking book powerfully humanizes the little-known urban workers who have been left behind in China’s single-minded drive to modernize. Dorothy Solinger traces the origins of their plight to the mid-1990s, when the Chinese government found that state-owned factories were failing in large numbers in the face of market reforms just as the country was about to enter the World Trade Organization. Under these circumstances, leaders urged firms to lay off tens of millions of previously lifetime-employed, welfare-secure, under-educated, middle-aged employees. As these dislocated people were left without any source of livelihood, the regime settled on a tiny welfare effort, the Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (dibao), to provide some support and, most important from the viewpoint of the leadership, to keep them quiet so that enterprise reform could proceed peacefully. Solinger explores the induced urban poverty that resulted and relates the painful struggle for survival of these discarded laborers. She also details the history and workings of the dibao and its missteps, as well as changes in policy over time. Drawing on dozens of interviews, this book brings to life the urban workers who have been relegated to obsolescence, isolation, and invisibility by China’s quest for modernity.

Author : Brendan McQuade
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520299740

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Pacifying the Homeland by Brendan McQuade Pdf

The United States has poured over a billion dollars into a network of interagency intelligence centers called “fusion centers.” These centers were ostensibly set up to prevent terrorism, but politicians, the press, and policy advocates have criticized them for failing on this account. So why do these security systems persist? Pacifying the Homeland travels inside the secret world of intelligence fusion, looks beyond the apparent failure of fusion centers, and reveals a broader shift away from mass incarceration and toward a more surveillance- and police-intensive system of social regulation. Provided with unprecedented access to domestic intelligence centers, Brendan McQuade uncovers how the institutionalization of intelligence fusion enables decarceration without fully addressing the underlying social problems at the root of mass incarceration. The result is a startling analysis that contributes to the debates on surveillance, mass incarceration, and policing and challenges readers to see surveillance, policing, mass incarceration, and the security state in an entirely new light.

Author : Ananya Roy,Emma Shaw Crane
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820348421

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Territories of Poverty by Ananya Roy,Emma Shaw Crane Pdf

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people’s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty—whether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundations—as multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation.

Author : Sjoerd Rijpma
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004293731

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David Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease by Sjoerd Rijpma Pdf

This study about David Livingstone is different from all other publications about him. Here, Livingstone is not the main topic of interest; the focus of the author is on nutrition and health in pre-colonial Africa and Livingstone is his key informant. David Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease is an unusual book. After a close examination of Livingstone’s writings and comparative reading of contemporary authors, Sjoerd Rijpma has been able to draw cautious conclusions about the relatively favourable conditions of health and nutrition in southern and central Africa during the pre-colonial period. His findings shed new light on the medical history of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : John Cooper
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : African American police
ISBN : 9780595170357

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The Police and the Ghetto by John Cooper Pdf

The Black Ghettos are no descendents. They are political statements forced upon the minorities by the majority. The ghettos are to house throwaway people and keep them out of the mainstream. In this the guard, the police are not there to catch wrong doers, but rather they are there in the ghetto to help maintain the status quo and social order.

Author : Mai Elliott
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833049155

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RAND in Southeast Asia by Mai Elliott Pdf

This volume chronicles RAND's involvement in researching insurgency and counterinsurgency in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand during the Vietnam War era and assesses the effect that this research had on U.S. officials and policies. Elliott draws on interviews with former RAND staff and the many studies that RAND produced on these topics to provide a narrative that captures the tenor of the times and conveys the attitudes and thinking of those involved.

Author : John Atkinson Hobson
Publisher : London : Methuen
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PRNC:32101068977758

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Problems of Poverty by John Atkinson Hobson Pdf

Author : Christine Adams
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252090011

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Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood by Christine Adams Pdf

This far-reaching study of maternal societies in post-revolutionary France focuses on the philanthropic work of the Society for Maternal Charity, the most prominent organization of its kind. Administered by middle-class and elite women and financed by powerful families and the government, the Society offered support to poor mothers, helping them to nurse and encouraging them not to abandon their children. In Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood, Christine Adams traces the Society's key role in shaping notions of maternity and in shifting the care of poor families from the hands of charitable volunteers with religious-tinged social visions to paid welfare workers with secular goals such as population growth and patriotism. Adams plumbs the origin and ideology of the Society and its branches, showing how elite women in Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Rouen, Marseille, Dijon, and Limoges tried to influence the maternal behavior of women and families with lesser financial means and social status. A deft analysis of the philosophy and goals of the Society details the members' own notions of good mothering, family solidarity, and legitimate marriages that structured official, elite, and popular attitudes concerning gender and poverty in France. These personal attitudes, Adams argues, greatly influenced public policy and shaped the country's burgeoning social welfare system.

Author : J. A. Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135118051

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Problems of Poverty (Routledge Revivals) by J. A. Hobson Pdf

First published in 1891, this seminal work examines the primary causes of poverty during the industrial age. Through considering how poverty is measured, the growth of urbanisation and the supply of low-skilled labour in the workforce, Hobson arrives at possible solutions to the problem of poverty and explores the ethical issues surrounding it.

Author : Laurinda Abreu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317020882

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The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal by Laurinda Abreu Pdf

By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies. As this book demonstrates, Portugal was among them and actively participated in such reforms. Providing the first English language monograph on this this topic, Laurinda Abreu examines the Portuguese experience and places it within the broader European context. She shows that, in line with much that was happening throughout the rest of Europe, Portugal had not only set up a systematic reform of the hospitals but had also developed new formal arrangements for charitable and welfare provision that responded to the changing socioeconomic framework, the nature of poverty and the concerns of political powers. The defining element of the Portuguese experience was the dominant role played by a new lay confraternity, the confraternity of the Misericórdia, created under the auspices of King D. Manuel I in 1498. By the time of the king's death in 1521 there were more than 70 Misericórdias in Portugal and its empire, and by 1640, more than 300. All of them were run according to a unified set of rules and principles with identical social objectives. Based upon a wealth of primary source documentations, this book reveals how the sixteenth-century Portuguese crown succeeded in implementing a national poor relief and health care structure, with the support of the Papacy and local elites, and funded principally though pious donations. This process strengthened the authority of the royal government at a time which coincided with the emergence of the early modern state. In so doing, the book establishes poor relief and public health alongside military, diplomatic and administrative authorities, as the pillars of centralization of royal power.

Author : J. A. Hobson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547233442

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Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor by J. A. Hobson Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor" by J. A. Hobson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : John Atkinson Hobson,V. I. Lenin
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781528788960

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Problems of Poverty - An Inquiry Into The Industrial Condition of the Poor by John Atkinson Hobson,V. I. Lenin Pdf

John Atkinson Hobson (1858 – 1940) was an English social scientist and economist most famous for his work on imperialism—which notably had an influence on Vladimir Lenin—as well as his theory of underconsumption. His early work also questioned the classical theory of rent and predicted the Neoclassical "marginal productivity" theory of distribution. In his 1891 work “Problems of Poverty”, Hobson explores the subject of poverty and the industrial condition of the poor, looking at such factors as the introduction of machinery, women workers, moral considerations, law, and much more. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in the history of European industrial development, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Hobson's seminal work. Contents include: “The Measure of Poverty”, “The Effects of Machinery on the Condition of the Working Class”, “The Influx of Population into Large Towns”, “'The Sweating System'”, “The Causes of Sweating”, “Remedies for Sweating”, “Over-supply of Low-skilled Labour”, “The Industrial Condition of Women-workers”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition together with an excerpt from “Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism” by V. I. Lenin.

Author : George S. Rigakos
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474413688

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Security/Capital by George S. Rigakos Pdf

What is security, and what is its relationship to capitalism? George S. Rigakos' explosive treatise charts the rise of the security-industrial complex. Starting from a critical appraisal of 'productive labour' in the works of Karl Marx and Adam Smith, Rigakos builds a conceptual model of pacification based on practices of dispossession, exploitation and the fetish of security commodities. Rigakos argues that a defining characteristic of the global economic system is its ability to productively sell (in)security to those it makes insecure. Materially and ideologically, the security-industrial complex is the blast furnace of global capitalism, fuelling the perpetuation of the system while feeding relentlessly on the surpluses it has exacted.

Author : Fred W Powell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847871558

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The Politics of Social Work by Fred W Powell Pdf

`Fred Powell argues for social work as civic engagement, promoting inclusion and justice through dialogue and trust. His book is an impressive combination of deep scholarship and fresh, up-to-date analysis of current issues′- Bill Jordan, University of Exeter `An illuminating discussion of the influence of postmodern trends on the practice of social work that also offers a bracing guide for the future of the profession. Social work practice, Powell argues, needs to be anchored in a commitment to an inclusive idea of citizenship, and especially the inclusion of the most vulnerable citizens′- Francis Fox-Piven, City University of New York `[T]his is an extraordinarily useful book for studies of social policy, especially in its presentation of a condensed history of social work′s relationship to social policy... The book is well documented, well written and challenging. It stimulates more thought than is common in professional literature′ - International Social Work The Politics of Social Work provides a major contribution to debates on the politics of social work at the beginning of the 21st Century. It locates social work within wider political and theoretical debates and deals with important issues currently facing social workers and the organisations in which they work. By setting the current crisis of identity social workers are experiencing in international context, Fred Powell analyses the choices facing social work in postmodern society. Fred Powell explores in this text contemporary and historical paradigms of social work from its Victorian origins to the development of reformist practice in the welfare state to radical social work, responses to social exclusion, the rennaissance of civil society, multiculturalism, feminism and anti-oppressive practice. In conclusion the he examines the options facing social work in the 21st century and argues for a civic model of social work based on the pursuit of social justice in an inclusive society. The Politics of Social Work will be essential reading for students on qualifying and post-qualifying social work courses, as well as courses in sociology, social policy, social administration and politics.

Author : Bradford W. Morse,Gordon R. Woodman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783110854800

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Indigenous law and the state by Bradford W. Morse,Gordon R. Woodman Pdf

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