Poverty & unemployment books

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Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America

Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America
Author: Katherine Beckett (Professor of Sociology and the Law, Societies & Justice Program, Professor of Sociology and the Law, Societies & Justice Program, University of Washington in Seattle) , Steve Herbert (Professor of Geography and the Law, Societies & Justice Program, Professor of Geography and the Law, Societies & Justice Program, University of Washington in Seattle) ISBN: 9780199830008 Format: Paperback	$51.95
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Unemployment & Crime: Experimental Evidence of the Causal Effects of Intensified ALMPs on Crime Rates Among Unemployed Individuals

Unemployment & Crime: Experimental Evidence of the Causal...
Author: Signe Hald Andersen ISBN: 9788790199647 Format: Paperback	$14.23
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99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do about It

99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World...
Author: Chuck Collins ISBN: 9786613532145 Format: Electronic book text	$69.54
We are the 99 percent is the rallying cry of millions of people involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement.... Read More >>

Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress

Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress
Author: Daniel Ben-Ami ISBN: 9786613532541 Format: Electronic book text	$313.63
In Ferraris for all, Daniel Ben-Ami argues that society as a whole benefits from greater affluence and action is... Read More >>

Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953

Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953...
Author: Janet Y. Chen ISBN: 9780691152103 Format: Hardback	$99.99
In the early twentieth century poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of... Read More >>

Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action

Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts,...
Author: Alberto Minujin , Shailen Nandy ISBN: 9781447301141 Format: Electronic book text	$330.00
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Homelessness: A Documentary and Reference Guide

Homelessness: A Documentary and Reference Guide
Author: Neil Larry Shumsky ISBN: 9780313377006 Format: Hardback	$180.00
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Life of Octavia Hill: As Told in her Letters

Life of Octavia Hill: As Told in her Letters
Author: Octavia Hill , C. Edmund Maurice ISBN: 9780511790126 Format: Undefined	$224.40
Octavia Hill (1838–1912) was involved in education and housing reform, campaigned against enclosure to keep open... Read More >>

Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class

Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class
Author: Katherine Porter ISBN: 9780804777018 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Broke explores the consequences of recent unprecedented growth in consumer debt and shows how excessive borrowing... Read More >>

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's,...
Author: Tracie McMillan ISBN: 9781439171950 Format: Hardback	$66.00
Inspired by the growing interest in food and the conversation about what people should be eating and from where... Read More >>

Scaling Social Impact: New Thinking

Scaling Social Impact: New Thinking
Author: P. Bloom , E. Skloot ISBN: 9780230338371 Format: Paperback	$116.41
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Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class

Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class
Author: Katherine Porter ISBN: 9780804777001 Format: Hardback	$211.20
Broke explores the consequences of recent unprecedented growth in consumer debt and shows how excessive borrowing... Read More >>

Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action

Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts,...
Author: Alberto Minujin ISBN: 9786613532527 Format: Electronic book text	$348.48
This book brings together theoretical, methodological and policy-relevant contributions by leading researchers on... 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 ISBN: 9781400067558 Format: Hardback	$73.92
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes... Read More >>

Appalachian Legacy: Economic Opportunity After the War on Poverty

Appalachian Legacy: Economic Opportunity After the War...
Author: James P Ziliak (University of Kentucky) ISBN: 9786613531551 Format: Electronic book text	$110.72
<p>In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty. The following... Read More >>

Women and Poverty in 21st Century America

Women and Poverty in 21st Century America
Author: Paula vW. Dáil ISBN: 9780786449033 Format: Paperback	$43.95
This intriguing volume offers a feminist perspective on the 21st century war on poverty, illustrated by the words... Read More >>

Working Hard, Working Poor: A Global Journey

Working Hard, Working Poor: A Global Journey
Author: Gary S. Fields (John P. Windmuller Professor of International and Comparative Labor, John P. Windmuller Professor of International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University) ISBN: 9780199794645 Format: Hardback	$77.95
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope...
Author: Katherine Boo , Katherine ISBN: 9780307934086 Format: Downloadable audio file	$175.56
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes... Read More >>

Africa Doesn't Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do about It

Africa Doesn't Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest...
Author: Giles Bolton ISBN: 9781611453065 Format: Paperback	$39.47
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How The Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (with 100+ endnotes)

How The Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements...
Author: Lorenzo Dominguez , Lorenzo Dominguez ISBN: 9781470004477 Format: Paperback	$34.29
WHAT'S NEW IN THIS EDITION - 123 new endnotes that provide insight to the contemporary reader to understand the... Read More >>

Against the Odds: Politicians, Institutions and the Struggle Against Poverty

Against the Odds: Politicians, Institutions and the...
Author: Marcus Andre Melo , Njuguna Ng'ethe ISBN: 9781849041195 Format: Paperback	$55.00
This is a case study of how three developing countries, Brazil, Uganda and India, all developed broadly similar... Read More >>

The Battle with the Slum

The Battle with the Slum
Author: Jacob A Riis ISBN: 9781420944563 Format: Paperback	$29.01
First published in 1902 this volume is a sequel to Riis's earlier book on the New York Slums How the Other Half... Read More >>

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

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life and Death in a Mumbai...
Author: Katherine Boo ISBN: 9781846274503 Format: Electronic book text	$62.59
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New Pathways Out of Poverty

New Pathways Out of Poverty
Author: Sam Daley-Harris , Anna Awimbo ISBN: 9781565494381 Format: Paperback	$33.95
Third in a book series spanning a decade that has documented the microfinance industry’s highs and lows, New Pathways... 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: 9780307934055 Format: Audio	$92.40
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes... Read More >>

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