Financially Sustainable Families: Integrated Social Work Praxis

Financial life of a family is very crucial. However less importance is given for financial literacy among structural rural poor, hence the interventional study was taken up to address the gap with Social Work Intervention. The researcher proposed In-Basket technique (one of the technique practiced in Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)) to spread financial literacy. The Present study was interventional in nature hence, Single Subject Research design (AB Model) was adopted to assess baseline and intervention phases of level of financial anxiety among families. Three structural poor families were chosen for study in Kunte village.Nelamangala block, Bengaluru rural District, Baseline assessment was done by using structured Financial Anxiety Assessment scale, Intervention was done by using In-basket technique. Considerable changes found after intervention in the level of financial anxiety of the family members.

Buenos Aires’s La Salada Market and Plebeian Citizenship

This study of La Salada, renamed by Cuartel’s residents as the “poor people’s shopping mall,” was founded in the early 1990’s at the height of neoliberalism by several dozen undocumented Bolivian immigrants and Argentine street hawkers in a pauperized, stigmatized and disenfranchised district near the city of Buenos Aires. By the early 2000’s, La Salada occupied a central place in public life in Cuartel and beyond; the European Union described it as “emblematic of counterfeit markets,” among the ten worst of its kind. In studying this market and the network of satellite ‘Saladitas’ that have proliferated in hundreds of neighborhoods across the country, my aim is to analyze the way the structural poor and recently impoverished middle class transformed themselves into citizens and have contributed to the emergence of a new form of life: plebeian democracy. In dialogue with Partha Chatterjee's work on 'governmentalized populations' in the global south, my discussion highlights some of the particular and distinctive features of plebeianism in contemporary Buenos Aires and its implications for the future of democratic life across the global south.

Conjunctural poor and structural poor: some preliminary considerations on poverty, the life-cycle and economic crisis in early-nineteenth-century Italy

Cet article traite des concepts de la pauvreté (c.à.d. de la condition de ceux qui, faute de biens ou d'un capital, sont obligés de travailler pour gagner leur vie) et de l'indigence (qui est l'état de quiconque est dans l'impossibilité de pourvoir aux besoins de sa famille). Les nombreuses baisses et crises de l'économie préindustrielle et les privations au cours de la vie sont responsables de la détérioration périodique du niveau de vie des personnes dont la subsistance dépend uniquement de leur travail. A la suite de Gutton, auteur de La Société et les pauvres en Europe (XVI-XVII siècles) (Paris, 1974), ces personnes sont définies comme pauvres conjoncturaux d'une part, parce qu'ils sont périodiquement exposés à la chute en dessous de l'indigence. D'autre part, des circonstances individuelles telles qu'une maladie permanente et le grand âge vient à causer une pauvreté structurelle, acceptée ensuite comme une situation permanente. Le présent article examine les définitions de la pauvreté tant conjoncturale que structurelle au départ d'une étude d'un cas spécifique; il prend également en considération la mesure dans laquelle les dimensions de chacun des deux types de pauvreté sont modifiées par les restrictions au cours de la vie, par les fluctuations économiques et par les situations individuelles.