"The Self-Help Myth reveals how philanthropy maintains systems of inequality by attracting attention to the behaviors and responsibilities of poor people while shifting the focus away from structural inequities and relationships of power that produce poverty. The book features foundation...

"Based on the case of migrant Filipina live-in domestic workers in Greece, this book focuses on the repercussions of precarious, low-status/low-wage occupations on their participation in primary and secondary groups of solidarity and on their representation in them, i.e., family and community,...