Poverty & unemployment books

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Living Low Paid: The Dark Side of Prosperous Australia

Living Low Paid: The Dark Side of Prosperous Australia...

Author: Helen Masterman-Smith ,  Barbara Pocock
ISBN: 9781283907439
Format: Electronic book text
$100.77

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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class...

Author: Joe Bageant
ISBN: 9781299021426
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

This fine book sheds a devastating light on Bush & Co.'s notorious 'base, ' i.e. America's white working class,...  Read More >>

Closing the Food Gap

Closing the Food Gap

Author: Mark Winne
ISBN: 9781299562820
Format: Electronic book text
$44.88

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Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 27, 2007: Biopsychosocial Approaches to Longevity

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume...

Author: Leonard W Poon, PhD, Dphil (University of Georgia) ,  Leonard W Poon, PhD, Dphil (University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9781281806642
Format: Undefined
$211.20

Examines longevity issues in the fields of biology, behavioral and social sciences, and contemporary methodology....  Read More >>

Breakfast at Sally's

Breakfast at Sally's

Author: Richard LeMieux
ISBN: 9781322385785
Format: Electronic book text
$39.47

One day, Richard LeMieux had a happy marriage, a palatial home, and took $40,000 Greek vacations. The next, he was...  Read More >>

Paths to Property: Approaches to Institutional Change in International Development

Paths to Property: Approaches to Institutional Change...

Author: Peter J. Boettke
ISBN: 9780255365826
Format: Paperback
$25.88

Argues that instead of traditional approaches to development policy in Sub-Saharan Africa, the focus needs to be...  Read More >>

Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare

Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from...

Author: Chad Alan Goldberg
ISBN: 9780226300771
Format: Paperback
$54.95

There was a time when America's poor faced a stark choice between access to social welfare and full civil rights...  Read More >>

Trade, Growth, and Inequality

Trade, Growth, and Inequality

Author: Christopher Bliss (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199204649
Format: Hardback
$153.95

This advanced text successfully links the two fields of trade theory and economic development. It combines mathematical...  Read More >>

Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare

Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from...

Author: Chad Alan Goldberg
ISBN: 9780226300764
Format: Hardback
$145.20

There was a time when America's poor faced a stark choice between access to social welfare and full civil rights...  Read More >>

MOVING OUT of POVERTY, VOLUME 1 : CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES on MOBILITY

MOVING OUT of POVERTY, VOLUME 1 : CROSS-DISCIPLINARY...

Author: World Bank Group ,  Patti L. Petesch
ISBN: 9780821371114
Format: Hardback
$139.95

This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. Leading development...  Read More >>

The Political Economy of European Employment: European Integration and the Transnationalization of the (Un)Employment Question

The Political Economy of European Employment: European...

Author: Henk W Overbeek (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780415459808
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Focuses on the emergence of employment policy as a political issue and examines unemployment in Europe in the context...  Read More >>

Western Aid in Postcommunism: Effects and Side-Effects

Western Aid in Postcommunism: Effects and Side-Effects...

Author: Anna Korhonen ,  David Lehrer
ISBN: 9781403945549
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Thoughts of a Blind Begger: Reflections from a Journey to God

Thoughts of a Blind Begger: Reflections from a Journey...

Author: Gerard Thomas Straub
ISBN: 9781570757396
Format: Paperback
$47.52

Inspired by the spirit of St Francis, the author went on an improbable journey that led him from the glamour of...  Read More >>

Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty

Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty...

Author: John R. Burch
ISBN: 9780786432646
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Giving and Solidarity: Resource Flows for Poverty Alleviation in South Africa

Giving and Solidarity: Resource Flows for Poverty Alleviation...

Author: Adam Habib ,  Brij Maharaj
ISBN: 9780796922014
Format: Paperback
$45.10

While the South African government is tackling poverty amongst its citizenry as a national priority and has developed...  Read More >>

Democracy and Social Policy

Democracy and Social Policy

Author: Y. Bangura
ISBN: 9780230546950
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Economic development is a necessary but not sufficient condition for welfare development. This book examines complex...  Read More >>

Kidwatching in Josie's World: A Study of Children in Homelessness

Kidwatching in Josie's World: A Study of Children in...

Author: Neva Ann Medcalf
ISBN: 9780761838746
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Over twenty years of work and research with homeless children comes together in a scholarly work that puts a real...  Read More >>

Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City

Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in...

Author: Nicole P. Marwell
ISBN: 9780226509075
Format: Paperback
$57.95

When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and '70s, government services and investment capital...  Read More >>

Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City

Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in...

Author: Nicole P. Marwell
ISBN: 9780226509068
Format: Hardback
$163.95

When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and '70s, government services and investment capital...  Read More >>

Minding the Gaps: Integrating Poverty Reduction Strategies and Budgets for Domestic Accountability

Minding the Gaps: Integrating Poverty Reduction Strategies...

Author: Vera A. Wilhelm ,  Philipp Krause
ISBN: 9780821372050
Format: Paperback
$66.00

By integrating their poverty reduction strategies, national budgets, and the corresponding reporting processes,...  Read More >>

Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader

Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism,...

Author: M. Marable ,  K. Middlemass
ISBN: 9781403977670
Format: Paperback
$76.56

African Americans today face a systemic crisis of mass underemployment, mass imprisonment, and mass disfranchisement....  Read More >>

Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader

Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism,...

Author: M. Marable ,  K. Middlemass
ISBN: 9781403977663
Format: Hardback
$237.60

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Growth, Development & Poverty Alleviation in the Asia-Pacific

Growth, Development & Poverty Alleviation in the Asia-Pacific...

Author: Kartik C Roy ,  Srikanta Chatterjee
ISBN: 9781594549311
Format: Hardback
$447.61

The major bulk of humanity lives in the continent of Asia, and it is here that some of the contrasts in both economic...  Read More >>

Street Stories: 100 Years of Homelessness in Vancouver

Street Stories: 100 Years of Homelessness in Vancouver...

Author: Michael Barnholden ,  Nancy Newman
ISBN: 9781895636857
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Homelessness is not new to Vancouver. There have been homeless people in Vancouver since it was founded in 1886....  Read More >>

Changing the Face of Hunger: The Story of How Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, and People of Faith are Joining Forces in a New Movement to Help the Hungry, the Poor, and the Oppressed

Changing the Face of Hunger: The Story of How Liberals,...

Author: Tony Hall ,  Tony Price
ISBN: 9780849918698
Format: Paperback
$32.99

If Tony Hall was to be true to his faith, he must find a way to bring God into the political world in which he worked....  Read More >>

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