Poverty & unemployment books

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Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed

Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed

Author: Martha Long, (Ir
ISBN: 9781609805999
Format: Electronic book text
$131.74

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The Borders of Inequality: Where Wealth and Poverty Collide

The Borders of Inequality: Where Wealth and Poverty...

Author: Íñigo Moré ,  Lyn Dominguez
ISBN: 9780816531622
Format: Paperback
$84.48

The Borders of Inequality illustrates how longstanding ""multidirectional misunderstandings"" can exacerbate cross-border...  Read More >>

Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: A. Estache ,  Q. Wodon
ISBN: 9781137381491
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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The Political Responsibilities of Everyday Bystanders

The Political Responsibilities of Everyday Bystanders...

Author: Stephen L. Esquith (Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University)
ISBN: 9780271036687
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A discussion of how everyday bystanders can learn to recognize and meet their shared and institutional political...  Read More >>

Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us

Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and...

Author: John Hills
ISBN: 9781447320036
Format: Paperback
$30.95

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Hero's Fight

Hero's Fight

Author: Professor Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (Princeton University, USA) ,  Patricia Ndez-Kelly
ISBN: 9781322519494
Format: Electronic book text
$116.03

Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the...  Read More >>

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Author: Yvonne Vissing
ISBN: 9781322595399
Format: Electronic book text
$79.20

Homelessness in small towns and rural areas is on the rise. Drawing on interviews with and case studies of three...  Read More >>

Appalachia in the Sixties

Appalachia in the Sixties

Author: Professor David S Walls (Sonoma State University) ,  John B Stephenson
ISBN: 9781322593890
Format: Electronic book text
$79.20

In The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey, published by the University Press of Kentucky in 1962, Rupert Vance...  Read More >>

Poverty and Power

Poverty and Power

Author: Edward Royce
ISBN: 9781322880907
Format: Electronic book text
$95.01

Poverty and Power asserts that American poverty is a structural problem resulting from failings in our social system,...  Read More >>

Hard Living in America's Heartland

Hard Living in America's Heartland

Author: Paula Vw DIL
ISBN: 9781322871844
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

Despite living hard, endlessly challenging lives, the rural poor remain tirelessly optimistic, believing things...  Read More >>

Worlds Apart

Worlds Apart

Author: Cynthia M Duncan ,  Angela Blackwell
ISBN: 9781322244556
Format: Electronic book text
$66.00

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Asia-Africa Development Divergence

Asia-Africa Development Divergence

Author: David Henley (KITLV, the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781322949956
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

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Yokohama Street Life

Yokohama Street Life

Author: Tom Gill, Dr
ISBN: 9781336197725
Format: Electronic book text
$197.97

Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career...  Read More >>

Transition to Common Work

Transition to Common Work

Author: Joe Mancini ,  Stephanie Mancini
ISBN: 9781771121613
Format: Electronic book text
$224.40

The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community...  Read More >>

Crafting Policies to End Poverty in Latin America

Crafting Policies to End Poverty in Latin America

Author: Ana Lorena De La O (Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781316384244
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

This book provides a theory and evidence to explain the initial decision of governments to adopt a conditional cash...  Read More >>

Gotta Find a Home: Conversations with Street People

Gotta Find a Home: Conversations with Street People...

Author: Karen Silvestri ,  Dennis Cardiff
ISBN: 9780993979903
Format: Paperback
$40.79

Writing about the homeless and helping the homeless, has given my life a purpose that it didn't have before. Documenting...  Read More >>

Civic Sermons: Ideas for a Different Civic Culture

Civic Sermons: Ideas for a Different Civic Culture

Author: Gerald Britt
ISBN: 9780990347736
Format: Paperback
$38.68

All politics is local is a well-worn aphorism that provides the reason why the words of Gerald Britt are significant....  Read More >>

Arm Und Reich: Sammelband Der Vortrage Des Studium Generale Der Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg Im Wintersemester 2012/2013

Arm Und Reich: Sammelband Der Vortrage Des Studium Generale...

Author: Christoph Butterwegge ,  Martin Fuchs, Pro
ISBN: 9783825363987
Format: Paperback
$26.40

"Arm und Reich"" - das Thema des Studium Generale im Wintersemester 2012/13 ist vielfaltiger Natur. Trefflich lasst...  Read More >>

Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century

Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st...

Author: Paul Collier
ISBN: 9780141042169
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Looks at how people from the world's poorest societies struggle to migrate to the rich West: the effects on those...  Read More >>

Do African Children Have an Equal Chance?: A Human Opportunity Report for Sub-Saharan Africa

Do African Children Have an Equal Chance?: A Human Opportunity...

Author: Andrew Dabalen ,  Ambar Narayan
ISBN: 9781464803321
Format: Paperback
$70.95

We have long known that a person's chance of success in life is deeply influenced by early access to education,...  Read More >>

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and...

Author: Jacqueline Novogratz ,  Jacqueline Novogratz
ISBN: 9781491574546
Format: Audio
$26.37

Eleven years after donating her blue sweater to Goodwill, Novogratz spotted a young boy in Africa wearing that very...  Read More >>

Unemployment Insurance in the Wake of the Recent Recession

Unemployment Insurance in the Wake of the Recent Recession...

Author: Congressional Budget Office
ISBN: 9781505261646
Format: Paperback
$39.47

The unemployment insurance (UI) system is a partnership between the federal government and state governments that...  Read More >>

Whuzup with the Hood: The inner city's state, source & solution

Whuzup with the Hood: The inner city's state, source...

Author: Richard D Siems
ISBN: 9781502829115
Format: Paperback
$18.45

This book describes the inner city, how urban impoverished residents live, what causes the environment in which...  Read More >>

Forgotten People: Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia: The Case of the Madurese

Forgotten People: Poverty, Risk and Social Security...

Author: Gerben Nooteboom
ISBN: 9789004282506
Format: Hardback
$456.72

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