Poor Relief or Poor Deal?: The Social Fund, Safety Nets and Social Security

Social Safety and Security

✍ Joannes Chliaoutakis (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 MDPI AG 🌐 English

<p>Social safety in social environments entails the sense of feeling safe with other people. Thus, social safety and security are very important to our life. Although research in this area has made significant progress in the past few years, there are still many social problems that require attentio

The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money,

📁 The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies

✍ Viviana A. Zelizer 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

<p>A dollar is a dollar—or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winnin

The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money,

📁 The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies

✍ Viviana A. Zelizer; Viviana A. Zelizer; Nigel Dodd 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

<p>A dollar is a dollar—or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winnin

Social capital and poor communities

📁 Social capital and poor communities

✍ Saegert, Susan; Thompson, J. Phillip; Warren, Mark R. 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Russell Sage Foundation 🌐 English

Social Capital and Poor Communities

📁 Social Capital and Poor Communities

✍ Susan Saegert; J. Phillip Thompson; Mark R. Warren 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Russell Sage Foundation 🌐 English

Neighborhood support groups have always played a key role in helping the poor survive, but combating poverty requires more than simply meeting the needs of day-to-day subsistence. Social Capital and Poor Communities shows the significant achievements that can be made through collective strategies, w

📁 Social administration including the poor laws

📂 Library 🌐 English