Social Issues & Processes

I can''t imagine how it could be possible for me to complete my high school studies four years ago without your intervention. In a nutshell, Red Ru...

This book opens with a review of urban poverty in Bangladesh, analysing socioeconomic aspects of the marginal poor under three headings: migration ...

Each year, millions of people die from poverty-related causes. In this groundbreaking and thought-provoking book, Gwilym David Blunt argues that th...

The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her c...

''It''s a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb.'' Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing ...

The current moment faced by the microfinance field reflects the opening lines from Charles Dickens'' A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of time...

This book presents edited and revised versions of most of the papers presented at the First International Conference on Sustainable Alternatives fo...

Does everyone in the US have an equal chance to make it ? What explains the enduring power of racism and sexism? How does our sociopolitical syste...

Through a rich mix of essays, memoirs, and poetry, the contributors to The Poverty and Education Reader bring to the fore the schooling experiences...

Despite an overhaul in the 1990s, the American welfare system remains with a business model focused on the bottom line. Crafted by male-dominate...

Through a rich mix of essays, memoirs, and poetry, the contributors to The Poverty and Education Reader bring to the fore the schooling experiences...

How many times have you walked by homeless people and pretended not to notice them? B. J. Lacasse, photographer and author of The Street, decided t...

As outlined by Suman Bery in his Foreword to this volume: in India, the Public Distribution System (PDS) continues to be a major instru-ment for en...

Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a food service worker in a cha...