Poverty & unemployment books

This book deals with the question of whether or not poor neighbourhoods have negative impacts on their residents,...  Read More >>

In Conover's first book, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few would choose...  Read More >>

Globalization is characterised by persistent poverty and growing inequality. Conventional wisdom has it that this...  Read More >>

Outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment,...  Read More >>

Globalization is characterised by persistent poverty and growing inequality. Conventional wisdom has it that this...  Read More >>

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Analyzes the success or failure of the antipoverty programs in terms of their own discourse.  Read More >>

Presents case studies that document how well or poorly health, nutrition, and population programs have reached disadvantaged...  Read More >>

Poor people spend their money living day to day. How can they accumulate wealth? In the United States, homeownership...  Read More >>

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The enormous and chronic social problems of poverty in 1970 struck approximately 40 per cent of the families of...  Read More >>

I crouched quietly in the patch of tall weeds. Around me fell the shadow of the viaduct that carried a highway over...  Read More >>

"Though born an expatriate U.S. citizen in Nicaragua, the author's hometown has an English name, Bluefields, and...  Read More >>

"Though born an expatriate U.S. citizen in Nicaragua, the author's hometown has an English name, Bluefields, and...  Read More >>

The author explains how a group of welfare mothers living in Las Vegas mounted the most successful anti-poverty...  Read More >>

Recognizing that safe and adequate water supplies are an essential component of fighting poverty and disease, the...  Read More >>

How do young people get by in hard times and hard places? Based on close-up research with young men and women from...  Read More >>

Bill Clinton vowed to ""end welfare as we know it"" in his first run for president. Did it work? ""New York Times""...  Read More >>

How do young people get by in hard times and hard places? Based on close-up research with young men and women from...  Read More >>

This is a comparison of welfare policies from the 1930s and the present that focuses on why poor women become demonized...  Read More >>

Despite its enormous wealth, the United States leads the industrialized world in poverty. This book unravels this...  Read More >>

Framing Class introduces students to the concepts of class and media framing, examining how the media portray various...  Read More >>

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This project was undertaken to produce a Sourcebook to support the integration of poverty and gender concerns into...  Read More >>