1. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
   The Experience of Modernity
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
   
2. Alternatives to Poverty and Welfare in Alberta
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1973
   A basic accounting of the extent of poverty and of those on Welfare in Canada and Alberta.
3. The Anglican Church of Canada
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
4. Approaches to Skid Row: Rosewater? Rehabilitation? Radical Renewal?
   Notes on the Conference of December 3, 4, 5, 1974
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1975
   Report of the first National Conference of the Skid Row National Coalition.
5. Bangladesh: Of Disasters and a Disastrous Development
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Dispossession, disparities in land distribution, and inappropriate development strategies in Bangladesh.
6. The Blackest Streets
   The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2008
   
7. Bowling Alone
   The Collapse and Revival of American Community
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
   
8. Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
9. Bringing the Economy Home from the Market
   Resource Type: Book
   
10. Canada's Great Divide
    The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    
11. The Canadian Fact Book on Poverty 1989
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
12. Canadian Federation of University Women
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
13. Canadian Feed The Children
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
14. Das Capital, Volume 1
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1890
    Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
15. CHF
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
16. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
17. Christians, Church and People Called the Poor...
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    
18. CIBC and CAW honoured for supporting vulnerable children
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Canadian Feed The Children recognizes CIBC and CAW union members on June 6, 2010 at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto from 6:30 to 9 pm for their support of vulnerable children.
19. Citizens for Public Justice
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
20. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
21. Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    To effect desired change, it is necessary to have the power to set a different agenda, and therefore to challenge the current concentration of economic and political power. One of the keys to building an effective movement is mutual acts of solidarity, inspired by the principle that `an injury to one is an injury to all'.
22. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
23. The Corporations and the State
    Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
24. The Creation of World Poverty
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
25. Crime and Criminals
    Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1902
    So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
26. CUSO-VSO
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
27. Daily Bread Food Bank
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
28. Debt Bondage Or Self-Reliance
    A Popular Perspective on the Global Debt Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    
29. Decline of the English Murder
    And Other Essays
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    A collection of essays by George Orwell.
30. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
    
31. Dossier Homme Seul Itinerant
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1974
    Theoretical base for organising and educative effort with single itinerant men in Montreal.
32. Down and Out in Paris and London
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Life near the bottom in France and England in the early 1930s.
33. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
34. The Economics of Injustice
    Poverty
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    Various aspects of poverty in Canada, the guaranteed income plan & social justice.
35. Everybody Loves a Good Drought
    Stories from India's Poorest Districts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    P. Sainath devoted 2½ years to visiting and recording the realities - delving into the fundamentals, the why of the realities - in India's 10 poorest districts.
36. Falling Behind
    The State of Working Canada, 2000
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
37. Family Service Toronto
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
38. Federated Anti-Poverty Groups of British Columbia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    
39. Food Banks and the Welfare Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    
40. Food Banks Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
41. Gandhi's Truth
    On the origins of militant nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
42. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
43. The Global Gang Thang
    A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    
44. Global Thoughts, Local Actions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
45. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    
46. Hair care line nourishes children affected by poverty
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Beginning April 2009, Laboratoire Cosmepro will donate two percent of sales from its Light Blue Shade hair care products to Canadian Feed The Childrenâ##s National Nutrition Program, which provides nutritional support to children living in poverty.
47. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
48. Hogtown
    Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
49. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
50. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
51. Income and Health
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
52. International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
53. Jobs and Poverty
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    
54. Just Like You and Me
    Images of the downtown eastside, Vancouver
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    Photographic and poetic images of the people of the "skid row" area of Vancouver.
55. Local Places In the Age of the Global City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
56. A Look at Skid Row 1976 - Where is it Going?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    A final report to the Non-Medical Use of Drugs Directorate on trends in Skid-Row movement.
57. Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
58. Malcolm X Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
59. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
60. Mastering the Machine
    Poverty, Aid and Technology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
61. A Model of Theological Reflection
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    Training document to organise analysis of the conditions that foster the existence of skid row.
62. Modernes Grosstadtelend
    Resource Type: Book
    
63. National Anti-Poverty Organization
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    
64. National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
65. National Skid Row Coalition Conference, Vancouver May 12-15, 1975
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    Description of conference with replections on implications for Calgary.
66. The Next Liberation Struggle
    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
67. 1988 Poverty Lines:
    Estimates By The National Council Of Welfare
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1988
    
68. 1987 Poverty Lines
    Estimates By The National Council of Welfare
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1987
    
69. The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
    
70. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
71. The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty
    Resource Type: Book
    
72. On the Edge
    A Journey into the Heart of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
73. Pensions Under Attack
    What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    
74. Photography and the Powerless
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1971
    A critique of photographers who come to exploit "the poor."
75. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1889
    
76. Poverty and Policy in Canada
    Implications for Health and Qualityof Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    
77. Poverty in Wealth
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
78. The poverty of sociology
    A review of James Lorimer's "Working People"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1971
    
79. Poverty Profile 1988
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1988
    
80. Poverty Report and Recommendations
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    
81. Poverty: A Study/Action Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
82. Progress Against Poverty
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1987
    
83. A Report Card on Women and Poverty
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
    
84. Report on the Conference; Vancouver 1975
    May 12-13, 1975
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    Conference on stategies used on Skid Row, focusing on Vancouver organisations.
85. Reporting the Realities of Poverty
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
86. Reporting the realities of poverty; Truth about global warming (reviews)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    
87. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
88. Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
89. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7 from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but some articles and other background are available on this Web site.
90. The Seventh Fire
    The Struggle for Aboriginal Government
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Describes the struggles of aboriginal people to run their own affairs.
91. Simon Fraser University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
92. SNCC
    The New Abolitionists
    Resource Type: Book
    
93. Society of Citizens of the World
    Resource Type: Book
    
94. Submission to the Poverty Task Force of the United Church of Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    
95. Submission to the Poverty Task Force of the United Church of Canada:
    How Social and Economc Justice Can be Improved in Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    
96. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
97. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
98. Theological Reflection Re: Skid Row
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    Reflection on the conditions that foster the existence of Skid Rows in Canada.
99. Toronto Survival Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
100. Under the Viaduct
     Homeless in Beautiful B.C.
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1991
     
101. University of Winnipeg
     Media Profile in Sources
     Resource Type: Organization
     
102. The War at Home
     An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1999
     
103. Weatherman
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1971
     A history of the Weatherman organization.
104. Welfare Office
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Trying to get welfare.
105. What A.G.A.I.N.?
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 1975
     Adequate Guaranteed Annual Income and Skid Row.
106. Who do we try to rescue today?
     Canada under corporate rule
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2000
     A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
107. Winter of Discontent
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 1991
     Whole communities are being plunged into a poverty culture that is very difficult to escape.
108. Women and Poverty: A Report by the National Council of Welfare
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 1979
     
109. Women, Resistance and Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     
110. Working People
     Life in a Downtown City Neighbourhood
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1971
     
111. You Can't Win
     The Autobiography of Jack Black
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1989
     Memoirs of a "desperado" who rode the rails, etc., around the turn of the century. Reviewed in the New York Review of Books, April 27, 1989.

Experts on Poverty in the Sources Directory

1. Asian Development Bank
2. CHF
3. CUSO-VSO
4. Canadian Feed The Children
5. Commonwealth Secretariat
6. Daily Bread Food Bank
7. Family Service Toronto
8. Food Banks Canada
9. History & Policy
10. International Development Law Organization
11. International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
12. International Fund for Agricultural Development
13. International Labor Rights Forum
14. International Monetary Fund
15. Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology
16. National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
17. Partners in Population and Development
18. Simon Fraser University
19. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
20. United Nations
21. United Nations Human Rights Council
22. University of Winnipeg
23. World Bank