Poverty & unemployment books

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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age...

Author: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
ISBN: 9780743254434
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, ""Random Family"" charts atumultuous decade in which girls...  Read More >>

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age...

Author: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
ISBN: 9781680656152
Format: Hardback
$76.03

The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, Random Family charts atumultuous decade in which girls become...  Read More >>

Vertigo: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Vertigo: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated...

Author: James N Parker, M.D. ,  Phillip M Parker
ISBN: 9781281193421
Format: Electronic book text
$155.07

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Down and Out in Early America

Down and Out in Early America

Author: Billy G. Smith (Michael P. Malone Professor of History, Montana State University)
ISBN: 9780271023168
Format: Hardback
$218.99

It has often been said that early America was the ""best poor man's country in the world."" After all, wasn't there...  Read More >>

Money in Their Own Name: The Feminist Voice in Poverty Debate in Canada, 1970-1995

Money in Their Own Name: The Feminist Voice in Poverty...

Author: Wendy McKeen
ISBN: 9780802085443
Format: Paperback
$79.99

In her analysis, McKeen underscores this persistent familialism that has been written and rewritten into Canadian...  Read More >>

Poverty and Health

Poverty and Health

Author: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
ISBN: 9789241562362
Format: Paperback
$95.04

This DAC reference document on poverty and health extends the DAC guidelines on poverty reduction by setting out...  Read More >>

Rural Poverty, Risk and Development

Rural Poverty, Risk and Development

Author: Marcel Fafchamps
ISBN: 9781843764366
Format: Hardback
$277.50

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Measuring Poverty in Nigeria

Measuring Poverty in Nigeria

Author: Sofo Ali-Akpajiak ,  Toni Pyke
ISBN: 9780855985028
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Mugged: Poverty in your coffee cup

Mugged: Poverty in your coffee cup

Author: Charis Gresser (Head of Research, Meteos) ,  Sophia Tickell (Founder and Managing Director, Meteos)
ISBN: 9780855985271
Format: Paperback
$25.75

This accessible report, with illustrations and many visual aids, outlines the extent of the crisis in the coffee...  Read More >>

Poverty, Democracy and Development: Issues for Consideration by the Commonwealth Expert Group on Democracy and Development

Poverty, Democracy and Development: Issues for Consideration...

Author: S.K. Rao
ISBN: 9780850927993
Format: Paperback
$47.39

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Law and Poverty: The Legal System and Poverty Reduction

Law and Poverty: The Legal System and Poverty Reduction...

Author: Lucy Williams ,  Asbjørn Kjønstad
ISBN: 9781842773970
Format: Paperback
$69.99

A comparative examination of the role of law in the causes, structures and alleviation of poverty.  Read More >>

The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio

The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the...

Author: Dan Dohan
ISBN: 9780520238893
Format: Paperback
$57.95

As Mexican-Americans stand poised to become the largest nonwhite minority in the United States, their struggles...  Read More >>

Law and Poverty: The Legal System and Poverty Reduction

Law and Poverty: The Legal System and Poverty Reduction...

Author: Lucy Williams ,  Asbjørn Kjønstad
ISBN: 9781842773963
Format: Hardback
$277.07

A comparative examination of the role of law in the causes, structures and alleviation of poverty.  Read More >>

Poverty in Guatemala

Poverty in Guatemala

Author: World Bank Group
ISBN: 9780821355527
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Poverty in Guatemala provides a comprehensive assessment of the social and economic factors that impact the poor...  Read More >>

Perspectives on Growth and Poverty

Perspectives on Growth and Poverty

Author: Rolph Van Der Hoeven ,  Anthony Shorrocks
ISBN: 9789280810912
Format: Paperback
$84.48

The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. The essays in this book...  Read More >>

This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940

This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern...

Author: Elna C. Green
ISBN: 9780820324517
Format: Hardback
$184.67

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Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown

Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality...

Author: Donna M. Goldstein
ISBN: 9780520235977
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Challenges much of what we think we know about the 'culture of poverty'. This title provides an intimate portrait...  Read More >>

Poverty and Exclusion in a Global World

Poverty and Exclusion in a Global World

Author: A S Bhalla ,  Senior Employment and Informal Economy Specialist Frederic Lapeyre (International Labour Organization)
ISBN: 9781280282799
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

This volume looks at the three dimensions of social exclusion: economic, social and political. Exclusion is analyzed...  Read More >>

Politics of the Poor, The: The East End of London 1885-1914

Politics of the Poor, The: The East End of London 1885-1914...

Author: Lecturer in Historical Studies Marc Brodie (Monash University)
ISBN: 9781280757747
Format: Electronic book text
$530.75

This book is about the political views of the 'classic' poor of London's East End in the late Victorian and Edwardian...  Read More >>

On the Parish?: The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England C. 1550-1750. Oxford Studies in Social History.

On the Parish?: The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in...

Author: Steve Hindle (Professor of History, University of Warwick University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781280841132
Format: Electronic book text
$705.67

On the Parish? is a study of the negotiations which took place over the allocation of poor relief in the rural...  Read More >>

The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio

The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the...

Author: Dan Dohan
ISBN: 9780520227569
Format: Hardback
$171.60

As Mexican-Americans stand poised to become the largest nonwhite minority in the United States, their struggles...  Read More >>

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