Poverty & unemployment books

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It Governance: Managing Information Technology for Business

It Governance: Managing Information Technology for Business...

Author: David Norfolk
ISBN: 9781280233487
Format: Electronic book text
$932.47

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Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America

Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in...

Author: Gillette Hall, Dr ,  Dr Harry Anthony Patrinos
ISBN: 9781283651349
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from widespread poverty. This...  Read More >>

Decentralization for Satisfying Basic Needs: An Economic Guide for Policy Makers. Research in Hispanic and Latino Business.

Decentralization for Satisfying Basic Needs: An Economic...

Author: J Michael McGuire
ISBN: 9781281373533
Format: Undefined
$219.78

Decentralization as a Means of Satisfying Basic Needs: An Economic Guide for Policymakers by J. Michael McGuire...  Read More >>

Backlash Against Welfare Mothers

Backlash Against Welfare Mothers

Author: Ellen Reese
ISBN: 9781282771840
Format: Electronic book text
$81.71

Backlash against Welfare Mothers is a forceful examination of how and why a state-level revolt against welfare,...  Read More >>

Globalization and Poverty

Globalization and Poverty

Author:
ISBN: 9781282434578
Format: Electronic book text
$95.04

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Storming Caesar's Palace

Storming Caesar's Palace

Author: Annelise Orleck (Dartmouth College, USA)
ISBN: 9781299563131
Format: Electronic book text
$66.00

The inspirational and little-known story of welfare mothers in Las Vegas, America's Sin City, who crafted an original...  Read More >>

Egyptian Peasant

Egyptian Peasant

Author: Father Henry Habib Ayrout
ISBN: 9781322297552
Format: Electronic book text
$102.96

A new edition of the classic study of Egypt's fellaheen farmers  Read More >>

Rural Poverty: Marginalisation and Exclusion in Britain and the United States

Rural Poverty: Marginalisation and Exclusion in Britain...

Author: Paul Milbourne
ISBN: 9780415205955
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book brings to light important issues which are often ignored - that the social effects of poverty are acute...  Read More >>

Insurance Against Poverty

Insurance Against Poverty

Author: Stefan Dercon (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199276837
Format: Hardback
$363.00

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Race, Poverty and Domestic Policy

Race, Poverty and Domestic Policy

Author: Michael Henry ,  James Tobin
ISBN: 9780300095418
Format: Hardback
$198.00

What explains the continuing hardship of so many black Americans? The essays in this volume consider the impact...  Read More >>

Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London

Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London

Author: Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
ISBN: 9781852852818
Format: Hardback
$130.00

For the poor and destitute, London's streets offered only the barest livelihood. Yet men, women and children found...  Read More >>

The Diverse Worlds of Unemployed Adults: Consequences for Leisure, Lifestyle, and Well-being

The Diverse Worlds of Unemployed Adults: Consequences...

Author: Mark E. Havitz ,  Peter A. Morden
ISBN: 9780889204645
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Because research on leisure and unemployment must cross over areas of study, as well as theoretical perspectives,...  Read More >>

Child Labor: A Global View

Child Labor: A Global View

Author: Cathryne L. Schmitz ,  Elizabeth K. Collardey
ISBN: 9780313322778
Format: Hardback
$92.00

An unprecedented number of children around the world are working today. This volume is a must-have, up-to-date survey...  Read More >>

World employment report 2004/5: employment, productivity and poverty reduction

World employment report 2004/5: employment, productivity...

Author: International Labour Office
ISBN: 9789221148135
Format: Undefined
$131.87

"The World Employment Report 2004 examines the interrelationship between employment creation, productivity growth,...  Read More >>

Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor Whites

Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor...

Author: Wayne Flynt
ISBN: 9780253217363
Format: Paperback
$34.95

For this new edition, Wayne Flynt has provided a new retrospective introduction and an up-to-date bibliography....  Read More >>

Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites

Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites

Author: Wayne Flynt
ISBN: 9780253345134
Format: Hardback
$118.80

An edition of a pioneering study of the South's poor whites.  Read More >>

Running on empty: Transport, social exclusion and environmental justice

Running on empty: Transport, social exclusion and environmental...

Author: Karen Lucas (The University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781861345691
Format: Paperback
$66.95

Lack of access to transportation among low-income groups is increasingly being recognised as a barrier to social...  Read More >>

Running on empty: Transport, social exclusion and environmental justice

Running on empty: Transport, social exclusion and environmental...

Author: Karen Lucas (The University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781861345707
Format: Hardback
$176.95

Lack of access to transportation among low-income groups is increasingly being recognised as a barrier to social...  Read More >>

Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700

Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700

Author: L a Bothelo
ISBN: 9786611949716
Format: Electronic book text
$554.40

This study is a test-case of the old poor law. In its exploration of the virtually unknown world of the aged poor...  Read More >>

Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops

Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops...

Author: Robert Ross
ISBN: 9780472030224
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its...  Read More >>

Understanding Globalization, Employment and Poverty Reduction

Understanding Globalization, Employment and Poverty...

Author: E. Lee ,  M. Vivarelli
ISBN: 9781403941497
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Do accelerating trade and foreign direct investment - experimented by most developing countries in the 1990s - imply...  Read More >>

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