Poverty & unemployment books

This report was conducted under the overall direction of Vinod Thomas ... [et al.]--Acknowledgements  Read More >>

In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her...  Read More >>

Studies the working poor in the United States, focusing on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among...  Read More >>

Studies the working poor in the United States, focusing on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among...  Read More >>

Explores a widespread ideological crisis concerning poverty that emerged in the aftermath of the plague in late...  Read More >>

Examines how food aid, population policies and policy against domestic violence reflected and reproduced existing...  Read More >>

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Tanzania has come across traditional forms of cooperation, which have survived the impact of colonialism and the...  Read More >>

This evaluation represents the first independent evaluation of the PSIA experience. It assesses the effect PSIAs...  Read More >>

Drawing from case studies of marginalized individuals in Mexico and the U.S., this book explores the colonizing...  Read More >>

Globalization and Security: An Encyclopedia addresses the need for an authoritative, but accessible analysis of...  Read More >>

This volume includes a selection of seminal articles on poverty andwelfate in the United States from the Journal...  Read More >>

A work of photojournalism that deals with the New York City's slums in the 1880s. It includes the images of the...  Read More >>

Led by the Office of Economic Opportunity, Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty reflected the president's belief that...  Read More >>

The consequence of this was, as in all tyrannies and persecutions it is, the people fled and scatter'd themselves...  Read More >>

The first condition of sweating is an abundant and excessive supply of low-skilled and inefficient labour. It...  Read More >>

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This evaluation examines the relevance and effectiveness of Poverty Reduction Support Credits (PRSCs), introduced...  Read More >>

A unique intergenerational ethnography about Oaxaca that uses Pierre Bourdieu's practice-theoretical approach  Read More >>

The first in-depth examination of Lyndon Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity and its role in the rise and fall...  Read More >>

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Largely because of data limitations, profound gaps exist in the understanding of rural poverty in Argentina. As...  Read More >>

Although the definition of what constitutes low income varies significantly from one country to the next, it is...  Read More >>

Ragged Dick is a children's novel by Horatio Alger, about a poor bootblack and his rise to middle-class comfort...  Read More >>