A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title This work assesses the possibilities and limitations of reducing poverty among families with children by increasing the work effort of the adults in those families. Following a historical review of family poverty since 1995, the authors present several policy simulations, including increased ......
Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self
Carceral Recovery is a medical anthropologist's account of demoralizing disciplinary and punitive approaches that continue to shape people's experience of recovery in an American city and makes a case for dis-entangling punitive approaches from the experience of substance use.
This book argues that the best sources for how to address the issues of homelessness are people experiencing homelessness themselves. The author examines how stigmatization, metaphorical language, and spatial segregation relating to homelessness serve as tools for systemic oppression.
Racism, Urban Citizenship, and the Privilege of Mobility
The American Housing Question reframes the question of affordable housing through the concepts of urban citizenship and racism. As the author aptly demonstrates, solving America's housing question means addressing both the effects of racism on housing and revaluing the notion of the public.
Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms
By the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but forgotten institution focuses on the connection between agriculture, provisions for the disadvantaged, and the daily realities of life at poor farms. Conceived as an inexpensive way to provide care for ......
History and Tragedy of an Intractable Social Problem
This book examines the history, governmental and private responses, and future prospects of this intractable challenge. Stephen Eides explains why homelessness persists in America and offers concrete recommendations for how we can do better for the homeless population.
Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms
By the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but forgotten institution focuses on the connection between agriculture, provisions for the disadvantaged, and the daily realities of life at poor farms. Conceived as an inexpensive way to provide care for ......
Homeless Voices: Stigma, Space, and Social Media argues that the best sources for how to address issues of homelessness are people experiencing homelessness themselves, particularly as they express their experiences through personal blogs and memoirs. Mary L. Schuster discusses how space and land have been historically denied to marginalized ......