All Change: Preventing Trafficking in the UK.

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ASI_2012_HT_UK_All_Change.pdf: 187 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020.0-ASI_2012_HT_UK_All Change Summary.pdf: 16 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Health Benefits of Urban Agriculture

Health professionals increasingly recognize the value of farm-and garden-scale urban agriculture. Growing food and non-food crops in and near cities contributes to healthy communities by engaging residents in work and recreation that improves individual and public well-being. This article outlines the benefits of urban agriculture with regard to nutrition, food security, exercise, mental health, and social and physical urban environments. Potential risks are reviewed. Practical recommendations for health professionals to increase the positive benefits of urban agriculture are provided

Holding Up Half the Sky

Through our in-depth research conducted in 2006-2007, we have concluded that the most critical need of women and girls in Fairfield County is economic security for low-income working women, especially single working mothers. Due in part to the high cost of living in our area, economic security was a recurring theme in almost every avenue of our research. As the most economically vulnerable population in our region, low-income working women need jobs with fair wages and benefits that will support high quality child care, stable housing, health care, as well as the education and skills necessary to improve their position over the course of their lives. A position of economic security enables women and children to move beyond a daily struggle of making ends meet and trading one basic need, such as food, medicine or rent, for another

Where has all the youth crime gone? youth justice in an age of austerity

Youth justice under the Coalition government in England and Wales has been characterised by considerable gains — falling youth crime, increased diversion and substantial reductions in child imprisonment — that would generally be associated with a progressive agenda. Focusing on youth justice policy in England and Wales, this article suggests that the tensions implicit in a government of the new right delivering outcomes that demonstrate an increased tolerance to children who offend can be explained by the logic of austerity. That same logic brings with it other policy measures that are potentially less compatible with children's well-being