Employers are rushing to find new ways of producing more with fewer people, in order to survive in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Harrington argues that late twentieth-century poverty is different from either of the forms of ...
Author: David J. Cheal
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780313294440
Category: Social Science
Page: 209
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Examines the nature of contemporary family poverty.This book charts new directions for cutting-edge research on poverty, policy, and politics in the United States. The essays collected here highlight the ways in which economic restructuring and changes in state policies create new ...
Author: Judith G. Goode
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814731161
Category: Social Science
Page: 509
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Stock market euphoria and blind faith in the post cold war economy have driven the topic of poverty from popular and scholarly discussion in the United States. At the same time the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. The New Poverty Studies critically examines the new war against the poor that has accompanied the rise of the New Economy in the past two decades, and details the myriad ways poor people have struggled against it. The essays collected here explore how global, national, and local structures of power produce poverty and affect the material well-being, social relations and politicization of the poor. In updating the 1960s encounter between ethnography and U.S. poverty, The New Poverty Studies highlights the ways poverty is constructed across multiple scales and multiple axes of difference. Questioning the common wisdom that poverty persists because of the pathology, social isolation and welfare state "dependency" of the poor, the contributors to The New Poverty Studies point instead to economic restructuring and neoliberal policy "reforms" which have caused increased social inequality and economic polarization in the U.S. Contributors include: Georges Fouron, Donna Goldstein, Judith Goode, Susan B. Hyatt, Catherine Kingfisher, Peter Kwong, Vin Lyon-Callo, Jeff Maskovsky, Sandi Morgen, Leith Mullings, Frances Fox Piven, Matthew Rubin, Nina Glick Schiller, Carol Stack, Jill Weigt, Eve Weinbaum, Brett Williams, and Patricia Zavella. "These contributions provide a dynamic understanding of poverty and immiseration" —North American Dialogue, Vol. 4, No. 1, Nov. 2001Moreover, much of the debate is concerned with levels of purchasing power and with the various social minimum payments which can help to prevent poverty, rather than with poverty itself. 2.2 NEW POVERTY AND THE NEW POOR In various ...
Author: Graham Room
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781349210886
Category: Social Science
Page: 135
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During the 1980s, poverty became a major issue of debate in the countries of the E.C. Social researchers, political decision-makers and the mass media have argued that this poverty takes new forms and affects new groups of the population. This book first provides a critical analysis of these debates and the political interests which are involved. It then brings together the latest evidence on the changing patterns of poverty in the Community countries during the 1970s and 1980s and concludes by examining the likely effects on poverty of the Single European Market.Definitions of poverty which go beyond income into education, health, vulnerability, and political freedoms are ... to be acted on for anti-poverty strategy to work properly is an insight which not only the 'new poverty strategies', ...
Author: P. Mosley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9780230371156
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 285
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The contributors to this collection examine the progress and impact of the 'new poverty strategies' which have governed the policies of development agencies over the past decade. While in some areas progress has been impressive, in others it has been hampered by persisting inequalities, civil conflict, institutional gaps and turbulence in the international financial system. In light of this, The New Poverty Strategies proposes a range of new policies and donor initiatives designed to achieve greater success in poverty reduction in the new century.The difficulties experienced by the 'new poor' were connected less with the high level of de facto unemployment in Russia than with the restructuring of the economy and, in particular, with lengthy non-payment of wages (up to 18 months ...
Author: Nataliya Tikhonova
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781351909624
Category: History
Page: 305
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Presenting the findings of a major research project funded by the EU (INTAS), this key volume investigates the regional, ethnic and socio-cultural aspects of poverty and social exclusion in Russia in recent years. In-depth household interviews and survey data allowed teams from the UK, Denmark and Russia to compare different societies and communities in Russia across several different themes: the definition of poverty in different regional, ethnic and socio-cultural settings; the reproduction and formation of poverty subcultures in different societies and communities; the ethnic/national and political values of poor people; the readiness of poor people for social protest; and a comparison of Russia with other EU countries. Offering a wealth of original data collected following a period of rapid impoverishment of the Russian population, the study considers the challenge this presents to Western European models of poverty and social exclusion.That calculation would produce a new " poverty line " of $ 6,432 for a family of four . That a new poverty line might be calculated out of new consumption data using housing , food , medical expenses ( or none of these items ) as a base ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
Publisher:
ISBN: UCBK:C055436070
Category: Food relief
Page: 566
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In the VTsIOM approach, the poor included those members of the Russian population whose income was no more than ... The New Poor: The Poverty of the Strong Thus far, we have been primarily concerned with examining the increasing ...
Author: Bertram Silverman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781315500805
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 192
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Now expanded to cover the consequences of Russia's 1998 financial collapse, this book focuses on the social consequences of a modern-day great depression. The text examines the unequal distribution of the costs and benefits of Russia's leap into capitalism. The topics covered include: the emergence of the "new poor"; the recruitment of a business elite; the changing social and economic status of women; and the impact of marketization on employment. The study draws on a range of statistics and survey research data to present a portrait of the lives and circumstances of comtemporary Russians.Soon a third threat was added to the other two: the poor who meekly accepted their plight as divine verdict and made no effort to extricate themselves from their misery proved immune to the blandishments of factory work and refused to ...
Author: Bauman, Zygmunt
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 033521598X
Category: Education
Page: 137
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Explores the relationship between social theory, families and changing issues in familial relationships and charts social and economic changes and their impact on the family.THE NEW POOR LAW ; ITS EVILS AND THEIR REMEDIES . 6 rich POVERTY is frequently mentioned in Scripture ; and the duty of showing kindness to the poor is repeatedly enforced . But the poor , who are particularly commended to our notice ...
Author: Thomas Spencer
Publisher:
ISBN: BL:A0023602571
Category:
Page: 16
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sentiments ; and by asserting the deep conviction of their minds , that the New Poor Law , under the judicious superintendence of the Commissioners , will promote prudent and moral habits amongst the · working classes , and the ...
Author: Thomas SPENCER (Perpetual Curate of Hinton Charterhouse.)
Publisher:
ISBN: BL:A0023882797
Category:
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