Poverty & unemployment books

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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second...

Author: Annette Lareau ,  Xe Sands
ISBN: 9798200087556
Format: Audio
$59.37

The second edition of Annette Lareau's Unequal Childhoods contains the classic analysis of how social class shapes...  Read More >>

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second...

Author: Annette Lareau ,  Xe Sands
ISBN: 9798200087549
Format: Audio
$59.37

The second edition of Annette Lareau's Unequal Childhoods contains the classic analysis of how social class shapes...  Read More >>

Social Welfare: Fighting Poverty and Homelessness

Social Welfare: Fighting Poverty and Homelessness

Author: Melissa J Doak ,  Corporate Contributor
ISBN: 9781414448671
Format: Paperback
$153.12

Volumes in the Information Plus Reference Series are completely revised and updated every two years.  Read More >>

Divide, Provide and Rule: An Integrative History of Poverty Policy, Social Reform, and Social Policy in Hungary under the Habsburg Monarchy

Divide, Provide and Rule: An Integrative History of...

Author: Susan Zimmermann
ISBN: 9786155053191
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Covers a key dimension of the social and political history of the Hungarian Kingdom before 1918, in a comprehensive,...  Read More >>

Homeless Come Home: An Advocate, the Riverbank, and Murder in Topeka, Kansas

Homeless Come Home: An Advocate, the Riverbank, and...

Author: Benedict F. Giamo
ISBN: 9780268029814
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment

Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches...

Author: Caizhen Lu
ISBN: 9780415618229
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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

The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980

The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980...

Author: Annelise Orleck ,  Lisa Gayle Hazirjian
ISBN: 9786613267917
Format: Electronic book text
$85.38

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Rainbow Pie: A Memoir Of Redneck America

Rainbow Pie: A Memoir Of Redneck America

Author: Joe Bageant
ISBN: 9781846272585
Format: Paperback
$23.26

The spokesman for redneck America is back - and this time it's personal.  Read More >>

The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man

The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man

Author: Nels Anderson ,  Robert E Park
ISBN: 9781258154028
Format: Paperback
$94.91

2014 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software....  Read More >>

20 Years at Hull-House

20 Years at Hull-House

Author: Jane Addams
ISBN: 9781466400016
Format: Paperback
$26.27

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The Ghetto: Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies

The Ghetto: Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies...

Author: Ray Hutchison ,  Bruce D. Haynes
ISBN: 9780813345031
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This book discusses more general consideration of marginalized urban spaces and peoples around the globe. It considers...  Read More >>

Voices of Victorian London: In Sickness and in Health

Voices of Victorian London: In Sickness and in Health...

Author: Henry Mayhew ,  Jonathan Miller
ISBN: 9781843913504
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Poor Relief in Ireland, 1851-1914

Poor Relief in Ireland, 1851-1914

Author: Mel Cousins
ISBN: 9783034307376
Format: Paperback
$146.32

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Progress for the Poor

Progress for the Poor

Author: Lane Kenworthy (Professor of Sociology and Political Science, University of Arizona.)
ISBN: 9780199591527
Format: Hardback
$170.95

One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least...  Read More >>

The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity

The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue...

Author: Jeffrey D Sachs ,  Richard McGonagle
ISBN: 9780307913036
Format: Audio
$105.60

A searing and incisive diagnosis of our country's economic ills, and an urgent call for Americans to restore the...  Read More >>

Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy

Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy...

Author: Lisa D. Brush (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Sociology Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)
ISBN: 9780195398502
Format: Hardback
$186.95

This book presents findings from research on the intersection of poverty and men's coercive control of their wives...  Read More >>

The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity

The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue...

Author: Center for International Development Jeffrey D Sachs (Columbia University Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University) ,  Richard McGonagle
ISBN: 9780307913050
Format: Audio
$105.60

A searing and incisive diagnosis of our country's economic ills, and an urgent call for Americans to restore the...  Read More >>

Persistent Poverty: Voices from the Margins

Persistent Poverty: Voices from the Margins

Author: Brice Balmer ,  Mira Dineen
ISBN: 9781897071731
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Gives voice to our most vulnerable neighbors-people marginalized by joblessness, disability, poverty level wages,...  Read More >>

Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural Violence

Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural...

Author: Paul Farmer ,  Margaret Connors, MS
ISBN: 9781567513462
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Reviews the massive epidemic sweeping Sub-Saharan Africa and many other parts of the Third World.  Read More >>

Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A Regional Development Issue

Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A Regional Development...

Author: Aurelia Segatti ,  Loren Landau
ISBN: 9780821387672
Format: Paperback
$54.95

Building on global interest in migration development, this volume draws attention to one of the most important migration...  Read More >>

Social Panorama of Latin America: 2010

Social Panorama of Latin America: 2010

Author: United Nations
ISBN: 9789211217544
Format: Paperback
$92.40

In 2010 the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) proposed a comprehensive development...  Read More >>

Rainbow Pie: A Memoir of Redneck America

Rainbow Pie: A Memoir of Redneck America

Author: Joe Bageant
ISBN: 9781846274077
Format: Electronic book text
$37.04

As Obama's triumphant 'Yes we can' continues to reverberate, it's tempting to believe that an era of opportunity...  Read More >>

Beyond the Resources of Poverty: Gecekondu Living in the Turkish Capital

Beyond the Resources of Poverty: Gecekondu Living in...

Author: Sebnem Eroglu ,  Professor Chris Pickvance
ISBN: 9781409407461
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Researches the lives of gecekondu settlers in the capital city of Turkey in order to understand how households cope...  Read More >>

The last safety net: A handbook of minimum income protection in Europe

The last safety net: A handbook of minimum income protection...

Author: Thomas Bahle ,  Vanessa Hubl
ISBN: 9781847427267
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

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Policy Creation and Evaluation: Understanding Welfare Reform in the United States

Policy Creation and Evaluation: Understanding Welfare...

Author: Richard Hoefer (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
ISBN: 9786613891723
Format: Electronic book text
$131.87

Although practitioners do not often identify an explicit focus on social welfare policy, the analysis (what it is)...  Read More >>

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