Poverty & unemployment books

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Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers

Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers

Author: Dick J Reavis
ISBN: 9781439154809
Format: Paperback
$42.21

In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich, Reavis joins the ranks of day laborers, exposing the reality of this tough,...  Read More >>

Faces of State Terrorism

Faces of State Terrorism

Author: Laura Westra (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy and University of Windsor, Canada)
ISBN: 9781280688171
Format: Electronic book text
$718.08

This book examines the numerous illegal measures states use, from unlawful imprisonment and curtailing of civil...  Read More >>

Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin: The Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People

Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin: The Sociospatial...

Author: Jurgen von Mahs ,  Jeurgen Von Mahs
ISBN: 9781439908266
Format: Hardback
$201.96

An international account of homelessness, comparing Berlin and Los Angeles and the possibility of exiting homelessness...  Read More >>

Critiques of Research in the Social Sciences, V1: An Appraisal of Thomas and Znaniecki's the Polish Peasant in Europe and America

Critiques of Research in the Social Sciences, V1: An...

Author: Herbert Blumer
ISBN: 9781258557881
Format: Hardback
$83.42

Foreword By Edmund E. Day. Summary And Analysis By Read Bain. Additional Contributors Are Gordon W. Allport, George...  Read More >>

Take Back the Land: Land, Gentrification, and the Umoja Village Shantytown

Take Back the Land: Land, Gentrification, and the Umoja...

Author: Max Rameau
ISBN: 9780983059752
Format: Paperback
$39.47

In October 2006 a group of housing activists called Take Back The Land seized control of a plot in Miami and built...  Read More >>

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope...

Author: Katherine Boo (Staff Writer, New Yorker, Y)
ISBN: 9781846274510
Format: Paperback
$28.44

A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he...  Read More >>

Home and Away: One Writer's Inspiring Experience at the Homeless World Cup

Home and Away: One Writer's Inspiring Experience at...

Author: Dave Bidini
ISBN: 9781620874745
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London

Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141393032
Format: Paperback
$16.99

Documents the author's 'first contact with poverty'. This title shows a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor...  Read More >>

Critiques of Research in the Social Sciences, V1: An Appraisal of Thomas and Znaniecki's the Polish Peasant in Europe and America

Critiques of Research in the Social Sciences, V1: An...

Author: Herbert Blumer
ISBN: 9781258566999
Format: Paperback
$84.35

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Poverty and Social Exclusion Around the Mediterranean Sea

Poverty and Social Exclusion Around the Mediterranean...

Author: Valerie Berenger ,  Florent Bresson
ISBN: 9781283910712
Format: Undefined
$340.56

The events taking place in several of South Mediterranean countries since December 2010 show that multiple deprivations...  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 No

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

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781605207339
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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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 No

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

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781605207353
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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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 No

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

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781605207377
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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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 No

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

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781605207391
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Poverty Reduction and Changing Policy Regimes in Botswana

Poverty Reduction and Changing Policy Regimes in Botswana...

Author: O. Selolwane
ISBN: 9781137270160
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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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 No

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

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781605207346
Format: Hardback
$131.87

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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 No

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

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781605207407
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper Morning Chronicle throughout 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 No

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

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781605207384
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper Morning Chronicle throughout 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 No

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

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781605207360
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper Morning Chronicle throughout the...  Read More >>

London Labour and the London Poor

London Labour and the London Poor

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781616408527
Format: Paperback
$246.72

This groundbreaking investigation into the lives of London's underclass was undertaken by Henry Mayhew in the 1850s....  Read More >>

Defying Poverty with Bicycles

Defying Poverty with Bicycles

Author: Sue Knaup
ISBN: 9780985988906
Format: Paperback
$38.79

"Defying Poverty with Bicycles lays out all the necessary steps for providing durable, affordable transportation...  Read More >>

London Labour and the London Poor

London Labour and the London Poor

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781616408534
Format: Hardback
$334.31

This groundbreaking investigation into the lives of London's underclass was undertaken by Henry Mayhew in the 1850s....  Read More >>

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