Poverty & unemployment books

6263 books were found.

Gender and Social Protection in the Developing World: Beyond Mothers and Safety Nets

Gender and Social Protection in the Developing World:...

Author: Rebecca Holmes ,  Nicola Jones
ISBN: 9781780320410
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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The Specter of ""the People"": Urban Poverty in Northeast China

The Specter of ""the People"": Urban Poverty in Northeast...

Author: Mun Young Cho
ISBN: 9780801451652
Format: Hardback
$343.20

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Pimping the Welfare System: Empowering Participants with Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital

Pimping the Welfare System: Empowering Participants...

Author: Kerry C. Woodward
ISBN: 9780739168820
Format: Hardback
$117.95

Pimping the System is an ethnographic study of two welfare offices that empowered welfare-reliant women by providing...  Read More >>

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Author: Rob Nixon
ISBN: 9780674072343
Format: Paperback
$45.95

“Slow violence” from climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of...  Read More >>

Poverty, Class and Gender in Rural Africa: A Tanzanian Case Study

Poverty, Class and Gender in Rural Africa: A Tanzanian...

Author: John Sender ,  Sheila Smith
ISBN: 9780415850117
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine

The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine

Author: William Carleton
ISBN: 9781484063422
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Critical Reflections on Development

Critical Reflections on Development

Author: D. Kingsbury
ISBN: 9780230389045
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): A Primer & Profile

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): A...

Author: Leonard Ramsey ,  Gillian Cummings
ISBN: 9781622578597
Format: Paperback
$219.91

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily...  Read More >>

The English Poor in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in Social and Administrative History

The English Poor in the Eighteenth Century: A Study...

Author: Dorothy Marshall
ISBN: 9780415847407
Format: Paperback
$105.00

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Food and Poverty: The Political Economy of Confrontation

Food and Poverty: The Political Economy of Confrontation...

Author: Radha Sinha
ISBN: 9780415847681
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Deals with contemporary tensions between the West and the Third World, caused by hunger, malnutrition and poverty,...  Read More >>

Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Narratives of Young Women

Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Narratives...

Author: Vanessa Oliver
ISBN: 9781442645318
Format: Hardback
$135.00

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Mexican American and Immigrant Poverty in the United States

Mexican American and Immigrant Poverty in the United...

Author: Ginny Garcia
ISBN: 9789400735118
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the experience of poverty among Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants...  Read More >>

Ending Poverty: Jobs, Not Welfare

Ending Poverty: Jobs, Not Welfare

Author: Hyman P Minsky
ISBN: 9781936192311
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Although Hyman P. Minsky is best known for his ideas about financial instability, he was equally concerned with...  Read More >>

Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy

Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform...

Author: Nicholas Terpstra
ISBN: 9780674067097
Format: Hardback
$109.95

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Poverty and Exclusion in the Western Balkans: New Directions in Measurement and Policy

Poverty and Exclusion in the Western Balkans: New Directions...

Author: Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi ,  Sara Savastano
ISBN: 9781461449447
Format: Hardback
$448.77

​This book maps the latest developments in the policy relevant analysis on poverty, inclusion and the social agenda...  Read More >>

Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Narratives of Young Women

Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Narratives...

Author: Vanessa Oliver
ISBN: 9781442613447
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Without Apology

Without Apology

Author: Jacqueline S Homan
ISBN: 9780981567952
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This direct and powerfully written book on the real history and status of women from a feminist analysis perspective,...  Read More >>

Alleys, Back Streets, Souls Lost

Alleys, Back Streets, Souls Lost

Author: Clark Goodrich
ISBN: 9780615785943
Format: Paperback
$26.93

"The story of a young boy growing up in a distressed neighborhood of a coal mining town and how he ""learned the...  Read More >>

Disadvantage

Disadvantage

Author: Jonathan Wolff (Professor of Philosophy, University College, London) ,  Avner de-Shalit (Professor of Democracy and Human Rights, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
ISBN: 9780199655588
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Disadvantage combines a philosophical analysis of the idea of disadvantage with practical proposals for moving society...  Read More >>

Women's Retirement Security: Challenges & Trends

Women's Retirement Security: Challenges & Trends

Author: Ray McCoy ,  Oliver Hubbard
ISBN: 9781622578948
Format: Hardback
$367.40

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A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse

A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse

Author: Peter Higginbotham
ISBN: 9780752487397
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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