The Poverty Industry

The Poverty Industry
Title The Poverty Industry PDF eBook
Author Daniel L. Hatcher
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 287
Release 2016-06-21
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1479874728

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"Hatcher [posits that] state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net, turning America's most vulnerable populations into sources of revenue"--

Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry

Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry
Title Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry PDF eBook
Author Susanne Soederberg
Publisher Routledge
Pages 347
Release 2014-09-19
Genre Political Science
ISBN 131764672X

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WINNER of the BISA IPEG Book Prize 2015 http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/ipeg-book-prize-2015-winner-announced/ Under the rubric of ‘financial inclusion’, lending to the poor –in both the global North and global South –has become a highly lucrative and rapidly expanding industry since the 1990s. A key inquiry of this book is what is ‘the financial’ in which the poor are asked to join. Instead of embracing the mainstream position that financial inclusion is a natural, inevitable and mutually beneficial arrangement, Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry suggests that the structural violence inherent to neoliberalism and credit-led accumulation have created and normalized a reality in which the working poor can no longer afford to live without expensive credit. The book further transcends economic treatments of credit and debt by revealing how the poverty industry is extricably linked to the social power of money, the paradoxes in credit-led accumulation, and ‘debtfarism’. The latter refers to rhetorical and regulatory forms of governance that mediate and facilitate the expansion of the poverty industry and the reliance of the poor on credit to augment/replace their wages. Through a historically grounded analysis, the author examines various dimensions of the poverty industry ranging from the credit card, payday loan, and student loan industries in the United States to micro-lending and low-income housing finance industries in Mexico. Providing a much-needed theorization of the politics of debt, Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry has wider implications of the increasing dependence of the poor on consumer credit across the globe, this book will be of very strong interest to students and scholars of Global Political Economy, Finance, Development Studies, Geography, Law, History, and Sociology. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315761954, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lU6PHjyOzU

Lords of Poverty

Lords of Poverty
Title Lords of Poverty PDF eBook
Author Graham Hancock
Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages 258
Release 1989
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780871134691

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"First published in Great Britain in 1989 by Macmillan London Limited"--T.p. verso. Bibliography: p. 195-226.

Problems of Poverty

Problems of Poverty
Title Problems of Poverty PDF eBook
Author John Atkinson Hobson
Publisher London : Methuen
Pages 264
Release 1891
Genre Great Britain
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Broke, USA

Broke, USA
Title Broke, USA PDF eBook
Author Gary Rivlin
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 472
Release 2010-05-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0061997943

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From the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Drive By comes a unique and riveting exploration of one of America’s largest and fastest-growing industries—the business of poverty. Broke, USA is a Fast Food Nation for the “poverty industry” that will also appeal to readers of Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and David Shipler (The Working Poor).

Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance

Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance
Title Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance PDF eBook
Author Vincent Lyon-Callo
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 193
Release 2008-07-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1442600861

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"This is a terrific book. Lyon-Callo's descriptions shatter stereotypes about homeless people and focus instead on the dysfunction of the system that allegedly serves them." - Susan Greenbaum, University of South Florida

Poverty as Ideology

Poverty as Ideology
Title Poverty as Ideology PDF eBook
Author Andrew Martin Fischer
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 337
Release 2018-12-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1786990466

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Winner of the International Studies in Poverty Prize awarded by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Zed Books. Poverty has become the central focus of global development efforts, with a vast body of research and funding dedicated to its alleviation. And yet, the field of poverty studies remains deeply ideological and has been used to justify wealth and power within the prevailing world order. Andrew Martin Fischer clarifies this deeply political character, from conceptions and measures of poverty through to their application as policies. Poverty as Ideology shows how our dominant approaches to poverty studies have, in fact, served to reinforce the prevailing neoliberal ideology while neglecting the wider interests of social justice that are fundamental to creating more equitable societies. Instead, our development policies have created a 'poverty industry' that obscures the dynamic reproductions of poverty within contemporary capitalist development and promotes segregation in the name of science and charity. Fischer argues that an effective and lasting solution to global poverty requires us to reorient our efforts away from current fixations on productivity and towards more equitable distributions of wealth and resources. This provocative work offers a radical new approach to understanding poverty based on a comprehensive and accessible critique of key concepts and research methods. It upends much of the received wisdom to provide an invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers across the social sciences.