Poverty & unemployment books

6263 books were found.

The Battle with the Slum

The Battle with the Slum

Author: Jacob a (Jacob August) Riis
ISBN: 9783847224525
Format: Paperback
$51.72

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature...  Read More >>

Democracy and Social Ethics

Democracy and Social Ethics

Author: Jane Addams
ISBN: 9781481253697
Format: Paperback
$23.73

The following pages present the substance of twelve lectures on Democracy and Social Ethics which have been delivered...  Read More >>

Absolute Poverty and Global Justice

Absolute Poverty and Global Justice

Author: Elke Mack ,  Elke Mack
ISBN: 9781282295407
Format: Undefined
$395.87

It is held that absolute poverty causes approximately one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and...  Read More >>

Fixing Fuel Poverty: Challenges and Solutions

Fixing Fuel Poverty: Challenges and Solutions

Author: Brenda Boardman
ISBN: 9781282506084
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

Begins by discussing the political awakening to the issue and exploring just who constitutes the fuel poor. This...  Read More >>

Legal Empowerment Agenda

Legal Empowerment Agenda

Author: Dan Banik (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781283089777
Format: Undefined
$171.47

Despite providing society with a set of crucial services, large groups of workers in the informal economy are subject...  Read More >>

Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment

Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches...

Author: Caizhen Lu (Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
ISBN: 9781283462549
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural...  Read More >>

Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South

Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South

Author: Eduardo Cesar Marques
ISBN: 9781280689420
Format: Undefined
$303.47

A rigorous examination of poverty in Sao Paulo, a contemporary megacity, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban...  Read More >>

The Road to Wigan Pier

The Road to Wigan Pier

Author: George Orwell ,  Frederick Davidson
ISBN: 9781433265037
Format: Audio
$79.07

An angry account of working-class life in the 1930s and a call to embrace social equality. With an introduction...  Read More >>

Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin

Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin

Author: Jurgen Von Mahs
ISBN: 9781299139367
Format: Electronic book text
$196.68

Los Angeles, California, and Berlin, Germany, have been dubbed homeless capitals for having the largest homeless...  Read More >>

Pimping the Welfare System

Pimping the Welfare System

Author: Kerry C Woodward
ISBN: 9781299288836
Format: Electronic book text
$171.57

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Business Solution to Poverty

Business Solution to Poverty

Author: Paul Polak ,  Mal Warwick (Mal Warwick and Associates)
ISBN: 9781299687080
Format: Electronic book text
$110.75

Right now the number of people living on $2 a day or less is more than the entire population of the world in 1950....  Read More >>

Breaking Out of the Poverty Trap

Breaking Out of the Poverty Trap

Author: Luolin Wang ,  Ling Zhu
ISBN: 9781299651920
Format: Electronic book text
$361.68

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

Partnership for Development: Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

Partnership for Development: Alternative Approaches...

Author: Nilufa Akhter Khanom
ISBN: 9781299646544
Format: Electronic book text
$238.15

The Government of Bangladesh has recognised the use of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as an innovative and effective...  Read More >>

Contextualizing Homelessness: Critical Theory, Homelessness, and Federal Policy Addressing the Homeless

Contextualizing Homelessness: Critical Theory, Homelessness,...

Author: Kenneth Kyle
ISBN: 9781299994232
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

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

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

Author: Dorothy Marshall ,  Dick Leonard
ISBN: 9781306108232
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

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Yesterday's People

Yesterday's People

Author: Jack E Weller
ISBN: 9781306184335
Format: Electronic book text
$66.00

The distinctive way of life of the Southern Appalachian people has often been criticized, romanticized or derided,...  Read More >>

Why Fight Poverty?

Why Fight Poverty?

Author: Julia Unwin
ISBN: 9781306290487
Format: Electronic book text
$42.21

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Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages

Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages

Author: Mark R Cohen
ISBN: 9781306149990
Format: Electronic book text
$189.95

They are voices that have been silent for centuries: those of captives and refugees, widows and orphans, the blind...  Read More >>

The Battle with the Slum

The Battle with the Slum

Author: Jacob A Riis
ISBN: 9781306366649
Format: Undefined
$57.95

Classic work of reportage documents life of the urban poor at the turn of the century. Real-life tales and rare...  Read More >>

American Way of Poverty, The: How the Other Half Still Lives

American Way of Poverty, The: How the Other Half Still...

Author: Sasha Abramsky
ISBN: 9781306435390
Format: Electronic book text
$71.25

Selected as A Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Fifty years after Michael Harrington published...  Read More >>

Betting on Famine: Why the World Still Goes Hungry

Betting on Famine: Why the World Still Goes Hungry

Author: Jean Ziegler
ISBN: 9781306434577
Format: Electronic book text
$71.15

Few know that world hunger was very nearly eradicated in our lifetimes. In the past five years, however, widespread...  Read More >>

Guaranteed Annual Income

Guaranteed Annual Income

Author: Philip K Robins ,  Robert G Spiegelman
ISBN: 9781322338828
Format: Electronic book text
$231.11

A Guaranteed Annual Income: Evidence from a Social Experiment brings together the first accounting of evidence on...  Read More >>

Embodied History

Embodied History

Author: Professor Simon P Newman, Professor
ISBN: 9781322510859
Format: Electronic book text
$65.87

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Homeless

Homeless

Author: Ella Howard
ISBN: 9781322512303
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access...  Read More >>

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