Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her
important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to …

Food poverty is an important contributing factor to health inequalities in industrialised
countries; it refers to the inability to acquire or eat an adequate quality or sufficient quantity of …

Demonstrating the relevance of theory to political and policy debates and practice, this lively
and accessible second edition helps students to grasp the real-life implications of social …

Purpose–Over the last 20 years, food banks in Australia have expanded nationwide and are
a well-organised “industry” operating as a third tier of the emergency food relief system. The …

'Power, not pity'is a demand articulated by the Poor People's Economic Human Rights
Campaign in the United States. The article discusses the ways in which some poverty …

First World Hunger: Food Security and Welfare Politics (Riches, 1997a) offered the first cross-
national study of the emergence and entrenchment of food aid and charitable food banking …

This study uses repeated Cox Proportional Hazards models to explore the characteristics
significant in predicting social assistance (SA) exit rates in Ontario, Canada. The results …

The National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) was formed in the 1930s against a backdrop
of fascism and'popular front'movements. In this volatile political atmosphere, the aim of the …

This exploratory study seeks to identify ways in which the international development
community (IDC) can contribute to improved educational provision for young people with …

Any health outbreak is beyond the biomedical approach. The COVID-19 pandemic exposes
a calamitous need to address social inequalities prevalent in the global health community …