Poverty & unemployment books

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Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871

Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871...
Author: Silvia Marina Arrom ISBN: 9780822325611 Format: Paperback	$45.95
A social history of poverty in Mexico City, based on a study of a poorhouse designed to incarcerate and train ""deserving""... Read More >>

Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871

Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871...
Author: Silvia Marina Arrom ISBN: 9780822325277 Format: Hardback	$170.95
A social history of poverty in Mexico City, based on a study of a poorhouse designed to incarcerate and train ""deserving""... Read More >>

Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies

Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies
Author: I. Gough ISBN: 9780312235994 Format: Book	$219.00
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Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History

Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and...
Author: Alice O'Connor ISBN: 9780691009179 Format: Hardback	$151.80
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Rethinking Development: Putting an End to Poverty

Rethinking Development: Putting an End to Poverty
Author: Henri Bartoli ISBN: 9781902282077 Format: Paperback	$48.84
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Development as Freedom

Development as Freedom
Author: Amartya Sen, FBA (Master, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge) ISBN: 9780192893307 Format: Paperback	$34.95
Amartya Sen is an economist. This book is a synthesis of his thought, viewing economic development as a means to... Read More >>

Child well-being, child poverty and child policy in modern nations: What do we know?

Child well-being, child poverty and child policy in...
Author: Koen Vleminckx , Timothy M. Smeeding ISBN: 9781847425256 Format: Electronic book text	$316.80
With an updated introduction and conclusion providing insights into the key issues, this edition features contributors... Read More >>

Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America

Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America...
Author: Jean M Hartman , John Lewis ISBN: 9780765607270 Format: Paperback	$56.99
This text on controversial American social issues covers topics like: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's... Read More >>

Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita

Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and...
Author: Javier Auyero ISBN: 9780822326212 Format: Paperback	$41.95
""Political clientelism"" is a term used to characterise the contemporary relationships between political elites... Read More >>

The City Poverty Assessment: A Primer

The City Poverty Assessment: A Primer
Author: Jesko Hentschel , Radha Sechagiri ISBN: 9781280088407 Format: Undefined	$79.15
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Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America

Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America...
Author: Jean M Hartman , John Lewis ISBN: 9780765607263 Format: Hardback	$175.00
This text on controversial American social issues covers topics like: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's... Read More >>

Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise

Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise
Author: Vivyan Adair , Sandra Dahlberg ISBN: 9781592130214 Format: Hardback	$207.24
Offers essays written by women who changed their lives through the pathway of higher education. This volume presents... Read More >>

Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita

Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and...
Author: Javier Auyero ISBN: 9780822326274 Format: Hardback	$161.95
Revealing a deep familiarity with the lives of the urban poor in Villa Paraiso, a stigmatised and destitute shantytown... Read More >>

Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long Term Unemployment

Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long Term Unemployment...
Author: Thomas J. Cottle ISBN: 9780275969844 Format: Hardback	$140.00
This book examines the experiences of eight men and their families, after periods of six months or more without... Read More >>

Breadline Europe: The measurement of poverty

Breadline Europe: The measurement of poverty
Author: David Gordon (Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol) , Peter Townsend (Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science) ISBN: 9781861342928 Format: Paperback	$61.95
The first book to examine poverty in Europe within the international framework agreed at the 1995 World Summit on... Read More >>

Growing up Untouchable in India: A Dalit Autobiography

Growing up Untouchable in India: A Dalit Autobiography...
Author: Vasant Moon , Gail Omvedt ISBN: 9780742508811 Format: Paperback	$37.95
'In this English translation, Moon's story is usefully framed by apparatus necessary to bring its message to even... Read More >>

Urban Girls: Empowerment in especially difficult circumstances

Urban Girls: Empowerment in especially difficult circumstances...
Author: Gary Barker , Felicia Knaul ISBN: 9781853394751 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Mastering the Machine Revisited: Poverty, aid and technology

Mastering the Machine Revisited: Poverty, aid and technology...
Author: Ian Smillie ISBN: 9781853395079 Format: Paperback	$94.91
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Risk-Mapping and Local Capacities: Lessons from Mexico and Central America

Risk-Mapping and Local Capacities: Lessons from Mexico...
Author: Monica Trujillo (Emergencies Support Person, Oxfam) , Amado Ordonez ISBN: 9780855984205 Format: Paperback	$79.07
This working paper maps the range of natural hazards and other risks to which people in Mexico and Central America... Read More >>

Environments and Livelihoods: Strategies for Sustainability

Environments and Livelihoods: Strategies for Sustainability...
Author: Koos Neefjes (Head of Sustainable Development Cluster, United Nations Development Programme) ISBN: 9780855984403 Format: Paperback	$64.56
This book is intended to be used to support the campaigning and lobbying work of local and international development... Read More >>

Mastering the Machine Revisited: Poverty, aid and technology

Mastering the Machine Revisited: Poverty, aid and technology...
Author: Ian Smillie ISBN: 9781853395147 Format: Hardback	$158.27
Mastering the Machine Revisited is about the connection between poverty, aid and technology. It is about the search... Read More >>

Waltzing With the Ghost of Tom Joad: Poverty, Myth, and Low-Wage labor in Oklahoma

Waltzing With the Ghost of Tom Joad: Poverty, Myth,...
Author: Robert Lee Maril , Robert McCormack ISBN: 9780806132556 Format: Hardback	$52.67
In Oklahoma, eighth-poorest state in the nation, poverty is a pressing social problem. Even so, Robert Lee Maril's... Read More >>

Poverty: A study of town life

Poverty: A study of town life
Author: B. Seebohm Rowntree , Jonathan Bradshaw (Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York) ISBN: 9781861342027 Format: Paperback	$55.95
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War and Underdevelopment: Volume 1: The Economic and Social Consequences of Conflict

War and Underdevelopment: Volume 1: The Economic and...
Author: Frances Stewart (, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK) , Valpy Fitzgerald (, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK) ISBN: 9780199241866 Format: Hardback	$213.95
Wars, especially civil wars, are known to be one of the most potent causes of human suffering and underdevelopment.... Read More >>

Healthcare Reform and Poverty in Latin America

Healthcare Reform and Poverty in Latin America
Author: Peter Lloyd-Sherlock ISBN: 9781900039345 Format: Paperback	$31.05
This volume identifies key problems facing healthcare systems in Latin America and evaluates the reforms that have... Read More >>

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