Globalisation and homelessness in the USA: Building a social movement to end poverty

Cheri Honkala, Richard Goldstein, Elizabeth Thul, William Baptist and Patrick Grugan

Development in Practice, 1999, vol. 9, issue 5, 526-538

Abstract: The authors explore the deleterious effects of economic globalisation on people in the USA, and explain the rise of poor people's 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.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1080/09614529952648

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