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| Abstract title: | Globalisation and homelessness in the USA: building a social movement to end poverty |
| Author: |
Cheri Honkala, Richard Goldstein, and Elizabeth Thul, with William Baptist and Patrick Grugan |
| Issue: | Volume 9, Number 5 1999 |
The authors explore the deleterious effects of economic globalisation on people in the USA, and explain the rise of poor peoples organisations as a response to these conditions. They look at the impact of economic changes in terms of public policy and argue that the global economy is preventing a growing number of people from being able to meet their basic needs, by limiting or eliminating living-wage jobs as well as welfare programmes. However, poor people in the USA are organising to end poverty, and the Kensington Welfare Rights Union is given as a case study. Finally, the authors discuss the challenges faced by social workers and how they can be most effective in the face of a dying welfare state alongside growing exploitation and exclusion of the poor.
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