Fattigdom & arbetslöshet

Nästan vart tionde barn i Sverige bor i en familj med så låga inkomster att det inte täcker boendet och de nödvändigaste levnadsomkostnaderna. Det innebär både materiell fattigdom och risk för socialt utanförskap. Hur påverkas barnen och hur agera...

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A perfect companion to Evicted and Nickel and Dimed , this work reveals one woman's experience of working-class poverty with a startlingly observed, eye-opening, and topical personal story.

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Brought to you by Penguin. ''If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?'' Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Ca...

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Aboveground, Manhattans Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people have taken shelter. The sociologist Terry Wil...

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'Brilliant, horrifying and really f***ing funny' KATHY BURKE 'Give[s] powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britain's current fracturing' OBSERVER I'm a scrounger, a liar, a hypocrite, a st...

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The unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland is having profound impacts on Generation Rent, the wellbeing of children, worsening wider inequality and threatening the economy. Hearne contextualises the Irish housing crisis within th...

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a sweeping argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

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*NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay' Rory Stewart 'Hilarious, shocking and deeply sad often in the same sentence' Sunday Times 'The Wolf of Wall Street with a ...

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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 practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer ...

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In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when in 1941 Let Us...

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Vinnare av Orwell-priset 2018 En Sunday Times bestseller. Darren McGarvey har personligen upplevt fattigdom och dess förödande effekter. Han vet varför folk från utsatta områden känner sig arga och förbisedda. Och han vill förklara! Därför bjuder ...

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Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this Wolfson History Prize-shortlisted portrait by a rising-star historian and New Generation Thinker Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered throu...

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A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities In recent years, the digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about inclusivity and scopebut what change will these conver...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023 'Essential and instructive, hopeful and enraging' Ann Patchett 'Desmond is utterly convincing: we must all become poverty abolitionists' Emily Ken...

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Ekonomiskt bistånd är ett av de mest grund¿läggande uppdragen för ett välfärdssamhälle och har en genomgripande betydelse för de fattigaste i samhället. Det bygger på mycket gamla föreställningar och sätt att organisera arbetet med fattigdomsbekäm...

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The Bioshock series looms large in the industry and culture of video games for its ambitious incorporation of high-minded philosophical questions and retro-futuristic aesthetics into the ultraviolent first-person shooter genre. Beyond the Sea mark...

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'This book flips your world upside down. Daniel Markovits argues that meritocracy isn't a virtuous, efficient system that rewards the best and brightest. Instead it rewards middle-class families who can afford huge investments in their c...

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The Road to Wigan Pier is a book in two parts: the first half is Orwells description of working-class life in industrial communities of the north of England, the second examines his own political views. Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a ...

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A Nobel Peace Prize-winner outlines his radical economic vision for a better future. Muhammad Yunus is the economist who invented microcredit, founded Grameen Bank, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work towards alleviating poverty. Here, he ...

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Den här boken handlar om min arbetslöshetsperiod. Från min första arbetslösa dag fram till nu. Med bra utbildning och många många års arbetslivserfarenhet var jag säker på att snart få en anställning. Nu efter fyra år är jag inte säker längre, men...

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A passionate account of how the gulf between Frances metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an American societyone that is both incre...

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'A breath of fresh air' - Norman Finklestein Workers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world. While these workers appear isolated from the Global North, they are in fact deeply ...

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The term collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in human ...

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This great orator addresses the question of wealth and poverty in the lives of people of his day, yet Chrysostom's words proclaim the truth of the gospel to all people of all times.

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This major expression of one of the leaders of the Chicago School, one of the most important schools of thought in contemporary American sociology, includes his recognized masterpieces of sociological research and writing. Hughes pioneered studies...

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Two-thirds of the population of the world are poor, and their number is growing in the first as well as in the third world, despite billions of dollars of aid. The economic development policies of the last two decades, and the theory which gave ri...

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*WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable ... If you want a good understanding of how the issues that cause poverty are intertwined, you should read this book' Bill Gat...

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What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Portugal to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere, hoping for better? Who...

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As Bill and Melinda Gates point out in their Foreword, Singer's classic essay "Famine, Affluence and Morality," is as relevant today as it ever was.

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Work hard, have fun, make history proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazons warehouses. This cheerful message hides a reality of digital surveillance, aggressive anti-union tactics and disciplinary layoffs. Reminiscent of the tumult of early in...

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