This work is an account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England. Its insight is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of valu…
When this book was first published in 1962, it was hailed as an explosive work and became a galvanizing force for the War on Poverty. The author shed light on the lives of the poor- from farm to city- and the social forces that relegated them to poverty. He was determined to mak…
The Latin American subaltern studies reader
Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated …
Argues for the saliency of the category of the subaltern over that of class.
El de la opción por los pobres es ya un tema clásico -casi viejo, podría decirse-, pero que ha recobrado una nueva urgencia, debido a los vientos contrarios que corren en estos momentos. Los cambios acaecidos en el Este parecían inaugurar la posibilidad de un orden internacional…
Trabajo, consumismo y nuevos pobres
by Bauman, Zygmunt, Cordova, Fernando
fromSERIE CLA-DE-MA. SOCIOLOGIA
Su autor reconstruye el cambio de la condición de la pobreza desde la revolución industrial y su "ética del trabajo" hasta la sociedad del consumo y "estética", y muestra en la situación actual todas las consecuencias de esta evolución. Además, analiza hasta qué punto son adecua…
Poverty in the roman world
