Poverty & unemployment books

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Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty

Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those...

Author: Jairo Lugo-Ocando
ISBN: 9780745334424
Format: Hardback
$152.95

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Development, Poverty and Power in Pakistan: The impact of state and donor interventions on farmers

Development, Poverty and Power in Pakistan: The impact...

Author: Syed Mohammad Ali (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138804531
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Rural development remains a major challenge for governments of developing countries such as Pakistan. While a broad...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States

The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States...

Author: Stephen Haymes (DePaul University, USA) ,  Maria Vidal de Haymes (Loyola University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415673440
Format: Hardback
$483.00

This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of the relationship of poverty in the US with the rise of neoliberal...  Read More >>

Poverty and Social Exclusion around the Mediterranean Sea

Poverty and Social Exclusion around the Mediterranean...

Author: Valerie Berenger ,  Florent Bresson
ISBN: 9781489999580
Format: Paperback
$290.37

The ""Arab Spring"" events unfolding in southern Mediterranean countries show that multiple deprivations may be...  Read More >>

The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor

The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor...

Author: Thorstein Veblen
ISBN: 9781473324152
Format: Paperback
$15.50

Originally published in 1899, this is a work by Thorstein Veblen, an American economist and sociologist. It is an...  Read More >>

Educational Binds of Poverty: The lives of school children

Educational Binds of Poverty: The lives of school children...

Author: Ceri Brown (University of Bath, UK)
ISBN: 9780415719391
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Shortlisted for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed's second Ethnography Awards in partnership with the British Sociological...  Read More >>

Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire

Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire...

Author: Nazan Maksudyan
ISBN: 9780815633181
Format: Hardback
$71.50

History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations....  Read More >>

The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man

The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man

Author: Nels Anderson
ISBN: 9781614277446
Format: Paperback
$36.83

2014 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software....  Read More >>

Poverty and Shame: Global Experiences

Poverty and Shame: Global Experiences

Author: Elaine Chase (Research Officer, Research Officer, University of Oxford) ,  Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo (Professor, Professor, Makerere University, Uganda)
ISBN: 9780199686728
Format: Hardback
$236.00

This book challenges thinking about the nature and causes of poverty in both the Global North and Global South....  Read More >>

Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea

Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and...

Author: Jesook Song
ISBN: 9781438450124
Format: Paperback
$89.63

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House Keys Not Handcuffs

House Keys Not Handcuffs

Author: Paul Boden ,  Jos Sances
ISBN: 9780915117246
Format: Paperback
$79.20

House Keys Not Handcuffs is a reflection on over 30 years of homeless organizing in San Francisco. It is an attempt...  Read More >>

Poverty in the United States: 2012

Poverty in the United States: 2012

Author: Thomas Gabe
ISBN: 9781503277236
Format: Paperback
$42.21

In 2012, 46.5 million people were counted as poor in the United States-the number, statistically unchanged over...  Read More >>

Living in the Shadows of Milwaukee

Living in the Shadows of Milwaukee

Author: Arn Quakkelaar ,  Laura Marsh
ISBN: 9781505272314
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Can you spare some change? When you think of a homeless person, you probably think of that dirty, smelly man or...  Read More >>

On the Trail

On the Trail

Author: Laura Marsh
ISBN: 9781505291049
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Can you spare some change? Dirty, smelly, talking to themselves...that's how most people think of the homeless,...  Read More >>

Living in the Shadows of Milwaukee and On the Trail: Combined Edition

Living in the Shadows of Milwaukee and On the Trail:...

Author: Arn Quakkelaar ,  Laura Marsh
ISBN: 9781505294378
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Available now as two books in a single volume, read Laura Marsh's journal of her life as a homeless person in a...  Read More >>

Breaking Through: India's Stories of Beating the Odds on Poverty

Breaking Through: India's Stories of Beating the Odds...

Author: Meera Mitra
ISBN: 9788129134882
Format: Hardback
$51.72

If India is described in conflicting and exaggerated terms-a growth miracle, yet a poverty stricken country-Breaking...  Read More >>

Armut in Der Renaissance

Armut in Der Renaissance

Author: Klaus Bergdolt ,  Andreas Tonnesmann
ISBN: 9783447100175
Format: Hardback
$248.16

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Inside-Outside: Two Views of Social Change in Rural India

Inside-Outside: Two Views of Social Change in Rural...

Author: B S Baviskar ,  D W Attwood
ISBN: 9788132113508
Format: Hardback
$110.50

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Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty

Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights...

Author: Scott Myers-Lipton
ISBN: 9781612057262
Format: Hardback
$252.00

A resounding call for a new Economic Bill of Rights to combat increasing poverty and economic bifurcation  Read More >>

The Illusion of Hopelessness: Coaching Youth at Risk Breaking the Cycle of Poverty, Violence and Abuse

The Illusion of Hopelessness: Coaching Youth at Risk...

Author: Fran Fisher
ISBN: 9780979875434
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The Illusion of Hopelessness was inspired by Craig Trowhill, who lived the street experience - gangs, drugs, and...  Read More >>

The Limits of Marriage: Why Getting Everyone Married Won't Solve All Our Problems

The Limits of Marriage: Why Getting Everyone Married...

Author: Gary R Lee
ISBN: 9781498512930
Format: Electronic book text
$224.37

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