Poverty & unemployment books

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Fire in the Ashes Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America

Fire in the Ashes Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest...

Author: Jonathan Kozol
ISBN: 9780606320801
Format: Hardback
$74.45

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Homelessness

Homelessness

Author: Noël Merino ,  Greenhaven Press Editor
ISBN: 9780737738513
Format: Hardback
$115.18

A discussion of issues relating to homelessness, presented in a and con format.  Read More >>

Poverty and the Poor Law in Ireland, 1850–1914

Poverty and the Poor Law in Ireland, 1850–1914

Author: Virginia Crossman
ISBN: 9781846319419
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis

Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches...

Author: Paul Shaffer (Associate Professor, Department of International Development Studies, Trent University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780199676903
Format: Hardback
$206.00

This book is about poverty in the Global South. It presents results from a wide range of mixed method, or Q-Squared...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Katherine Boo ,  Sunil Malhotra
ISBN: 9781743178188
Format: Audio
$49.11

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Katherine Boo ,  Sunil Malhotra
ISBN: 9781743178171
Format: Audio
$56.87

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to...  Read More >>

A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home

A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for...

Author: Laura Gottesdiener ,  Clarence Lusane
ISBN: 9781884519215
Format: Paperback
$42.11

A moving exploration of homeownership, freedom, and the American Dream in light of the ongoing financial crisis...  Read More >>

Rhythms of Poverty: Reconsidering Our Affluent Approach to the Poor

Rhythms of Poverty: Reconsidering Our Affluent Approach...

Author: Murray Nickel
ISBN: 9780992020910
Format: Paperback
$42.24

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Inner City Poverty in Paris and London

Inner City Poverty in Paris and London

Author: Charles Madge ,  Peter Willmott
ISBN: 9780415864725
Format: Paperback
$94.99

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Poverty and Social Exclusion: New Methods of Analysis

Poverty and Social Exclusion: New Methods of Analysis...

Author: Gianni Betti (University of Siena, Italy) ,  Achille Lemmi (University of Siena, Italy)
ISBN: 9781299744851
Format: Electronic book text
$427.68

Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty...  Read More >>

Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945

Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945

Author: Ronald D Eller
ISBN: 9780813142463
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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Means-Tested Programs & Tax Credits for Low Income People: Spending Trends

Means-Tested Programs & Tax Credits for Low Income People:...

Author: Efrain B White ,  Connie C Mitchell
ISBN: 9781626185524
Format: Paperback
$219.91

The federal government devotes roughly one-sixth of its spending to ten major means-tested programs and tax credits,...  Read More >>

Legacies of the War on Poverty

Legacies of the War on Poverty

Author: Martha J. Bailey ,  Sheldon H. Danziger
ISBN: 9780871540072
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Many believe that the War on Poverty, launched by President Johnson in 1964, ended in failure. In 2010, the official...  Read More >>

Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality

Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality

Author: David Card ,  Steven Raphael
ISBN: 9780871544988
Format: Paperback
$171.60

The rapid rise in the proportion of foreign-born residents in the United States since the mid-1960s is one of the...  Read More >>

My Eyes Feel They Need to Cry: Stories from the Formerly Homeless

My Eyes Feel They Need to Cry: Stories from the Formerly...

Author: Martha Aladjem Bloomfield
ISBN: 9781611860917
Format: Paperback
$79.07

As intimate as they are inspiring, these stories of transformation, drawn from the oral histories of formerly homeless...  Read More >>

Limos Kai Loimos: A Study of the Galenic Plague

Limos Kai Loimos: A Study of the Galenic Plague

Author: Danielle Gourevitch
ISBN: 9782701803364
Format: Paperback
$116.16

Danielle Gourevitch continues her investigation of pathocenosis in the Roman Empire in the footsteps of Mirko Grmek...  Read More >>

Breaking Out Of The Poverty Trap: Case Studies From The Tibetan Plateau In Yunnan, Qinghai And Gansu

Breaking Out Of The Poverty Trap: Case Studies From...

Author: Luolin Wang (Chinese Academy Of Social Sciences, China) ,  Ling Zhu (Chinese Academy Of Social Sciences, China)
ISBN: 9781938134074
Format: Hardback
$277.20

This book provides unique insights into the challenges and potential solutions to alleviate poverty in western China....  Read More >>

Poverty and Social Exclusion: New Methods of Analysis

Poverty and Social Exclusion: New Methods of Analysis...

Author: Gianni Betti (University of Siena, Italy) ,  Achille Lemmi (University of Siena, Italy)
ISBN: 9780415636346
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty...  Read More >>

The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns: Volume 1

The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns: Volume...

Author: Thomas Chalmers
ISBN: 9781108062350
Format: Paperback
$87.98

This influential three-volume work (1821–6) by the Scottish churchman and social reformer Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847)...  Read More >>

The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns: Volume 2

The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns: Volume...

Author: Thomas Chalmers
ISBN: 9781108062367
Format: Paperback
$87.98

This influential three-volume work (1821–6) by the Scottish churchman and social reformer Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847)...  Read More >>

The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns: Volume 3

The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns: Volume...

Author: Thomas Chalmers
ISBN: 9781108062374
Format: Paperback
$95.74

This influential three-volume work (1821–6) by the Scottish churchman and social reformer Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847)...  Read More >>

The Education of the Poor: The History of the National School 1824-1974

The Education of the Poor: The History of the National...

Author: Pamela Silver ,  Harold Silver
ISBN: 9780415864770
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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