Poverty & unemployment books

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Begging in America, 1850-1940: The Needy, the Frauds, the Charities and the Law

Begging in America, 1850-1940: The Needy, the Frauds,...

Author: Kerry Segrave
ISBN: 9786613307552
Format: Electronic book text
$158.24

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Le quai de Ouistreham

Le quai de Ouistreham

Author: Florence Aubenas
ISBN: 9782757824443
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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A Bum Deal: An Unlikely Journey from Hopeless to Humanitarian

A Bum Deal: An Unlikely Journey from Hopeless to Humanitarian...

Author: Rufus Hannah ,  Barry M. Soper
ISBN: 9781402260872
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Hannah is known to millions around the world as Rufus the Stunt Bum because of his participation in the infamous...  Read More >>

Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond

Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty...

Author: Margaret Willson
ISBN: 9780295990583
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Through a narrative brimming with honesty and grace, Dance Lest We All Fall Down unfolds the story of how friendship,...  Read More >>

God of the Empty-Handed: Poverty, Power and the Kingdom of God

God of the Empty-Handed: Poverty, Power and the Kingdom...

Author: Jayakumar Christian
ISBN: 9780987132901
Format: Paperback
$29.99

In this revised edition, Jayakumar Christian argues that in order to provide sustainable solutions to powerlessness,...  Read More >>

Targetted Public Distribution System: Performance and Inefficiencies (A Study by NCAER)

Targetted Public Distribution System: Performance and...

Author: Parmod Kumar
ISBN: 9788171887989
Format: Paperback
$184.67

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Changing Inequality

Changing Inequality

Author: Rebecca M. Blank
ISBN: 9780520266933
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Offers a comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the years: rapidly...  Read More >>

Why Poverty Persists: Poverty Dynamics in Asia and Africa

Why Poverty Persists: Poverty Dynamics in Asia and Africa...

Author: Bob Baulch
ISBN: 9780857930248
Format: Hardback
$285.00

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Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain

Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics...

Author: Stephen P. Jenkins (Professor of Economic and Social Policy, London School of Economics)
ISBN: 9780199226436
Format: Hardback
$155.95

This book documents the patterns of income mobility and poverty dynamics in Britain and how they have changed over...  Read More >>

Changing Inequality

Changing Inequality

Author: Rebecca M. Blank
ISBN: 9780520266926
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Offers a comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the years: rapidly...  Read More >>

Welfare's Forgotten Past: A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law

Welfare's Forgotten Past: A Socio-Legal History of the...

Author: Lorie Charlesworth (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415685788
Format: Paperback
$96.99

That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and...  Read More >>

Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment

Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches...

Author: Caizhen Lu
ISBN: 9786613462541
Format: Electronic book text
$443.52

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

A People's History Of Poverty In America

A People's History Of Poverty In America

Author: Stephen Pimpare
ISBN: 9781595586728
Format: Paperback
$57.95

In this compulsively readable social history, a brilliant new addition to The New Press' acclaimed People's History...  Read More >>

Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; The Remedy

Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial...

Author: Henry George
ISBN: 9780511693687
Format: Undefined
$224.40

In this volume three very different aspects of the late nineteenth-century debate on poverty are bound together:...  Read More >>

Triage

Triage

Author: Cecily Nicholson
ISBN: 9780889226579
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Triage attempts an ordered, critical response to the manufactured crises that perpetuate our public and private...  Read More >>

Progress for the Poor

Progress for the Poor

Author: Lane Kenworthy (Rochester Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9786613352590
Format: Electronic book text
$570.24

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

Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A Regional Development Issue

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

Author: Aurelia Segatti ,  Loren B Landau
ISBN: 9786613278937
Format: Electronic book text
$79.17

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Contemporary Migration to South Africa

Contemporary Migration to South Africa

Author: Aurelia Segatti ,  Loren B Landau
ISBN: 9781283278935
Format: Electronic book text
$79.17

A copublication of Agence francaise de Developpement and the World Bank.  Read More >>

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich ,  Sara Bershtel
ISBN: 9780312626686
Format: Paperback
$39.60

In 1998, Ehrenreich was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job--any...  Read More >>

Community Development: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

Community Development: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty...

Author: Hennie Swanepoel ,  Frik de Beer
ISBN: 9780702188756
Format: Paperback
$60.81

Suitable for community development workers, students and practitioners, this title contextualizes poverty against...  Read More >>

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN: 9781613832752
Format: Hardback
$80.92

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Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality

Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way...

Author: John Marsh
ISBN: 9781583672433
Format: Paperback
$43.99

When educational programs prove ineffective at reducing inequality, the ones whom these programs were intended to...  Read More >>

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