Poverty & unemployment books

6232 books were found.

Get Going: Solve Homelessness Today

Get Going: Solve Homelessness Today

Author: Carol Hollowell
ISBN: 9798822945036
Format: Paperback
$34.29

The real solutions that lead to a marked change in the landscape of homelessness and how communities can follow...  Read More >>

The Journey to Hangtown Haven

The Journey to Hangtown Haven

Author: Arthur Edwards
ISBN: 9798893569131
Format: Paperback
$36.93

"How a group of committed volunteers led by a retired aerospace engineer built a homeless shelter in a gold rush...  Read More >>

The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work

The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of...

Author: Jason Read
ISBN: 9781839767623
Format: Paperback
$34.99

How Marx and Spinoza can explain our perverse attachment to the indignities of work  Read More >>

The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations

The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations

Author: Prof. Christof Parnreiter (University of Hamburg)
ISBN: 9781788215596
Format: Paperback
$64.66

"A corrective to the view that cities are only ever ""good"", arguing that the same urban properties which make...  Read More >>

Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema

Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American...

Author: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
ISBN: 9780520390362
Format: Paperback
$49.95

"In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward...  Read More >>

The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations

The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations

Author: Prof. Christof Parnreiter (University of Hamburg)
ISBN: 9781788215589
Format: Hardback
$194.06

"A corrective to the view that cities are only ever ""good"", arguing that the same urban properties which make...  Read More >>

Migrants, Markets, and Mayors: Rising above the Employment Challenge in Africa's Secondary Cities

Migrants, Markets, and Mayors: Rising above the Employment...

Author: Luc Christiaensen ,  Nancy Lozano
ISBN: 9781464819032
Format: Paperback
$116.03

In a rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their cities' labour markets and a threat...  Read More >>

Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City

Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City

Author: Yousuf Al-Bulushi
ISBN: 9783031424328
Format: Hardback
$343.17

How are poor people in South Africa confronting the persistent legacy of apartheid spatial segregation and anti-blackness?...  Read More >>

Dark and Light

Dark and Light

Author: Dave Kinnaman
ISBN: 9798350939910
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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If You See Them: Crisis and Hope for Unhoused, Unaccompanied Youth

If You See Them: Crisis and Hope for Unhoused, Unaccompanied...

Author: Vicki Sokolik
ISBN: 9781954118492
Format: Hardback
$49.99

"""An exploration of the crisis of homeless youth--told through the stories of a woman on the frontlines and the...  Read More >>

Poverty, by America

Poverty, by America

Author: Matthew Desmond
ISBN: 9780593239933
Format: Paperback
$52.80

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making...  Read More >>

Displaced: Refugees, Trauma, and Integration Within Nations

Displaced: Refugees, Trauma, and Integration Within...

Author: Shaifali Sandhya (Director, Director, Care Family Consultation, Chicago, IL)
ISBN: 9780197579886
Format: Hardback
$87.95

Armed conflicts, natural disasters, poverty, and the pandemic have forced over 117 million people to abandon their...  Read More >>

Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru

Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft...

Author: Kristin Skrabut
ISBN: 9781477329108
Format: Paperback
$92.27

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.  Read More >>

Making Room: Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging, and a Safe Place for LGBTQ Youth

Making Room: Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging,...

Author: Carl Siciliano
ISBN: 9780593444245
Format: Paperback
$47.52

From a pioneering advocate for LGBTQ youth, a gripping, impassioned account of how an unhoused queer youth's murder...  Read More >>

Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru

Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft...

Author: Kristin Skrabut
ISBN: 9781477329092
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in Buenos Aires' Villas Miseria

The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in Buenos...

Author: Agnese Codebo
ISBN: 9780822948094
Format: Hardback
$132.00

The Argentine capital is largely perceived as a middle-class space. Yet in reality, urban poverty and precarious...  Read More >>

In the Balance: The Case for a Universal Basic Income in South Africa and Beyond

In the Balance: The Case for a Universal Basic Income...

Author: Hein Marais
ISBN: 9781776146932
Format: Hardback
$234.96

Examines the need and prospects for a UBI As jobs disappear and wages flat-line, paid work is an increasingly...  Read More >>

Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning

Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty,...

Author: Steven T. Moga
ISBN: 9780226833330
Format: Paperback
$57.95

"Interrogates the connections between a city's physical landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often...  Read More >>

Les Mis�rables de l'An Deux Mille...: La maraude tend la main

Les Mis�rables de l'An Deux Mille...: La maraude tend...

Author: Djamal Hamadache
ISBN: 9782954423210
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers

This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers

Author: Jeff Sharlet (Dartmouth College)
ISBN: 9781324075196
Format: Paperback
$52.77

“A luminous, moving and visual record of fleeting moments of connection.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’...  Read More >>

How to Adopt a Village in Africa: A Story of Joy, Pain, and Purpose

How to Adopt a Village in Africa: A Story of Joy, Pain,...

Author: Sheena Ashdown
ISBN: 9781039174764
Format: Hardback
$129.33

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Work and the Well-Being of Poor Families with Children: When Work is Not Enough

Work and the Well-Being of Poor Families with Children:...

Author: Andrea L. Ziegert ,  Dennis H. Sullivan
ISBN: 9781498556798
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This book evaluates the effectiveness of multiple policy proposals—including those of the Biden Administration—in...  Read More >>

Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal

Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant...

Author: Janice Harvey
ISBN: 9780228020561
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Before the advent of state-financed social services, poor relief in Quebec was private and sectarian. In Montreal...  Read More >>

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