Poverty & unemployment books

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Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present

Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness...

Author: Art Hazelwood ,  Paul Boden
ISBN: 9780915117208
Format: Paperback
$68.51

""A traveling exhibition from Exhibit Envoy. Curated by Art Hazelwood""  Read More >>

Ragged London: The Life of London's Poor

Ragged London: The Life of London's Poor

Author: Michael Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780752460055
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A history of ragged London  Read More >>

Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Author: Jez Butterworth
ISBN: 9781559364089
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Winner of Best Play, 2009 Evening Standard Awards, Best New Play, Critics Circle Awards, and Best New Play, Whatsonstage.com...  Read More >>

Practical Debt Advice: Your Guide for the Relief of Debt in Scotland

Practical Debt Advice: Your Guide for the Relief of...

Author: Elizabeth McCue
ISBN: 9781906775216
Format: Paperback
$25.85

The future in Britain is unpredictable. Many people are finding themselves in a debt crisis for the first time...  Read More >>

Ending Hunger Worldwide

Ending Hunger Worldwide

Author: George Kent
ISBN: 9781594518935
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Disability and poverty: A global challenge

Disability and poverty: A global challenge

Author: Arne H. Eide (Department of Global Health and Welfare, SINTEF.) ,  Benedicte Ingstad (Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo.)
ISBN: 9781847428851
Format: Hardback
$176.95

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the lived realities of people with disabilities...  Read More >>

Social Justice, Poverty and Race: Normative and Empirical Points of View

Social Justice, Poverty and Race: Normative and Empirical...

Author: Paul Kriese ,  Randall E Osborne
ISBN: 9786613250537
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

A clear understanding of social justice requires complex rather than simple answers. It requires comfort with ambiguity...  Read More >>

Poverty, Hunger, and Democracy in Africa: Potential and Limitations of Democracy in Cementing Multiethnic Societies

Poverty, Hunger, and Democracy in Africa: Potential...

Author: D. Bigman
ISBN: 9780230205284
Format: Hardback
$277.20

The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing...  Read More >>

The Social Fund 20 Years On: Historical and Policy Aspects of Loaning Social Security

The Social Fund 20 Years On: Historical and Policy Aspects...

Author: Chris Grover
ISBN: 9780754678663
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India

The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India

Author: Shelley Seale
ISBN: 9781463780760
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Amidst the growing prosperity of India, there is an entire generation of parentless children growing up. They are...  Read More >>

Expanding Work Programs for Poor Men

Expanding Work Programs for Poor Men

Author: Lawrence M. Mead
ISBN: 9780844743974
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State: Down and Out in Theme Park Nation

Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State: Down and Out...

Author: James Wright ,  Amy M. Donley
ISBN: 9781412842211
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Fighting Poverty Together: Rethinking Strategies for Business, Governments, and Civil Society to Reduce Poverty

Fighting Poverty Together: Rethinking Strategies for...

Author: A. Karnani
ISBN: 9780230105874
Format: Hardback
$181.10

In this hard-hitting polemical Karnani demonstrates what is wrong with today's approaches to reducing poverty. He...  Read More >>

Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age

Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age...

Author: Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)
ISBN: 9780745652955
Format: Paperback
$32.95

* Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time. * This new book focuses...  Read More >>

Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age

Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age...

Author: Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)
ISBN: 9780745652948
Format: Hardback
$103.95

* Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time. * This new book focuses...  Read More >>

The Night Cleaner

The Night Cleaner

Author: Florence Aubenas (Éditions du Seuil)
ISBN: 9780745651996
Format: Hardback
$16.95

The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously....  Read More >>

Poverty and Social Exclusion in India

Poverty and Social Exclusion in India

Author: The World Bank
ISBN: 9780821386903
Format: Paperback
$38.95

This book presents evidence on how three groups that have traditionally faced exclusion in India- the Scheduled...  Read More >>

Perspectives on Poverty in India: Stylized Facts from Survey Data

Perspectives on Poverty in India: Stylized Facts from...

Author: World Bank Group ,  World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821386897
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Examines India’s experience with poverty reduction in a period of rapid economic growth. Marshalling evidence from...  Read More >>

Homeless in Las Vegas: Stories from the Street

Homeless in Las Vegas: Stories from the Street

Author: Kurt Borchard
ISBN: 9780874178371
Format: Paperback
$50.60

The homeless men and women represented in this book speak candidly about their plight, its origins, and the many...  Read More >>

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight...

Author: Abhijit Banerjee ,  Esther Duflo
ISBN: 9781586487980
Format: Hardback
$71.25

Drawing on the authors' years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, this title identifies fresh aspects...  Read More >>

Working Poverty in Europe

Working Poverty in Europe

Author: Neil Fraser
ISBN: 9786613210036
Format: Electronic book text
$285.12

Offering a comparative perspective, thisbook examines working poverty - those in work who are still classified as...  Read More >>

Wagging the Dragon's Tail: Emerging Practices in Participatory Poverty Reduction in China

Wagging the Dragon's Tail: Emerging Practices in Participatory...

Author:
ISBN: 9781843698005
Format: Paperback
$84.48

China's social transformation over the last 30 years has beenamong history's most dramatic ones. Economic growth...  Read More >>

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