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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in...

Author: J D Vance
ISBN: 9781504734325
Format: Audio
$131.97

""A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers.""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in...

Author: J D Vance
ISBN: 9781504734332
Format: Audio
$79.17

Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile...  Read More >>

Iqtisad al-fuqara'

Iqtisad al-fuqara'

Author: Esther Duflo ,  Abhijit Banerjee
ISBN: 9789992195246
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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The People of the Abyss (Annotated)

The People of the Abyss (Annotated)

Author: Jack London
ISBN: 9781534682757
Format: Paperback
$15.81

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Urban Poverty and Climate Change: Life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America

Urban Poverty and Climate Change: Life in the slums...

Author: Manoj Roy (Lancaster University, UK) ,  Sally Cawood (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781138860506
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change...  Read More >>

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in...

Author: Nancy Isenberg ,  Kirsten Potter
ISBN: 9781515955443
Format: Audio
$79.17

In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the present, Nancy...  Read More >>

Feeding the Future: School Lunch Programs As Global Social Policy

Feeding the Future: School Lunch Programs As Global...

Author: Jennifer Geist Rutledge
ISBN: 9780813573311
Format: Paperback
$102.83

A century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368 million children receive school lunches...  Read More >>

Pauperism, Its Causes and Remedies

Pauperism, Its Causes and Remedies

Author: Henry Fawcett
ISBN: 9781356346899
Format: Hardback
$68.51

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Feeding the Future: School Lunch Programs As Global Social Policy

Feeding the Future: School Lunch Programs As Global...

Author: Jennifer Geist Rutledge
ISBN: 9780813573328
Format: Hardback
$396.00

A century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368 million children receive school lunches...  Read More >>

A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor

A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for...

Author: Alexes Harris
ISBN: 9780871544612
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa: A Multi-faceted Economic Approach

Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa: A Multi-faceted...

Author: Almas Heshmati
ISBN: 9783319309804
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. The studies highlighted...  Read More >>

Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Summary

Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the...

Author: Ant Hive Media
ISBN: 9781533638014
Format: Paperback
$18.35

This is a Summary of Matthew Desmond's New York Times Bestseller: EVICTED Poverty and Profit in the American City...  Read More >>

The People of the Abyss

The People of the Abyss

Author: Jack London
ISBN: 9781355906995
Format: Hardback
$73.79

This sociological study of London during the height of the British Empire exposes the poverty at the heart of the...  Read More >>

London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not Work

London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of...

Author: Henry Mayhew ,  William Tuckniss
ISBN: 9781355657170
Format: Hardback
$79.07

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in...

Author: Nancy Isenberg ,  Kirsten Potter
ISBN: 9781799984443
Format: Audio
$58.05

The New York Times bestseller: a ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular...  Read More >>

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in...

Author: Nancy Isenberg ,  Kirsten Potter
ISBN: 9781799984450
Format: Audio
$58.05

The New York Times bestseller: a ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular...  Read More >>

London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not Work Volume 1

London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of...

Author: Henry Mayhew ,  William Tuckniss
ISBN: 9781354995075
Format: Hardback
$79.07

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting Pieces

Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting Pieces

Author: Ian Frazier ,  Ian Frazier
ISBN: 9781427272720
Format: Audio
$134.61

""A generous selection of Frazier's most sophisticated and uproarious feature stories""--  Read More >>

Poor Workers' Union: Rebuilding Labor from Below

Poor Workers' Union: Rebuilding Labor from Below

Author: Vanessa Tait
ISBN: 9781608465200
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative...  Read More >>

London Labour and the London Poor: The Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Cannot Work, and Will Not Work, Volume 3

London Labour and the London Poor: The Condition and...

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781354512067
Format: Hardback
$79.07

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor

Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working...

Author: Lisa Goff
ISBN: 9780674660458
Format: Hardback
$74.95

Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America’s urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings...  Read More >>

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