Poverty & unemployment books

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Actively Seeking Work?: The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain

Actively Seeking Work?: The Politics of Unemployment...

Author: Desmond King
ISBN: 9780226436227
Format: Paperback
$65.95

The liberal political origins of work-welfare programmes and issues of conflicting goals is documented in this text....  Read More >>

Unemployment: Choices for Europe

Unemployment: Choices for Europe

Author: Daniel Cohen ,  Charles R. Bean
ISBN: 9781898128144
Format: Paperback
$99.00

This volume represents the discussions at the fifth annual Monitoring European Integration report and brings together...  Read More >>

Young, Poor, and Pregnant: The Psychology of Teenage Motherhood

Young, Poor, and Pregnant: The Psychology of Teenage...

Author: Judith S. Musick
ISBN: 9780300061956
Format: Paperback
$53.95

Discusses how psychological pressures of adolescence interact with the problems of being poor to create a situation...  Read More >>

You Have Seen Their Faces

You Have Seen Their Faces

Author: Erskine Caldwell ,  Margaret Bourke-White
ISBN: 9780820316925
Format: Paperback
$71.15

During the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White traveled across the back roads...  Read More >>

Religion and Radical Politics: An Alternative Christian Tradition in the United States

Religion and Radical Politics: An Alternative Christian...

Author: Robert Craig
ISBN: 9781566393355
Format: Paperback
$84.35

Explores the history of American left-wing Christians who discovered the convergence between radical politics and...  Read More >>

Minimum Wages in Central and Eastern Europe: From Protection to Destitution

Minimum Wages in Central and Eastern Europe: From Protection...

Author: Guy Standing ,  Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
ISBN: 9781858660424
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Explores the depths of minimum wage deprivation and the causes and consequences of this development, while also...  Read More >>

Labour Statistics for a Market Economy: Challenges and Solutions in the Transition Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Labour Statistics for a Market Economy: Challenges and...

Author: Igor Chernyshev
ISBN: 9781858660080
Format: Hardback
$131.87

The International Labour Office is behind the adoption of the Labour Force Survey in Western countries to gather...  Read More >>

Poverty and Political Culture: Rhetoric of Social Welfare in the Netherlands and France, 1815-54

Poverty and Political Culture: Rhetoric of Social Welfare...

Author: Frances Gouda
ISBN: 9789053561584
Format: Paperback
$30.36

A study on the different rhetorical approaches to poverty, charity and social welfare in the Netherlands and France...  Read More >>

Poverty Reduction and the World Bank: Progress in Fiscal 1994

Poverty Reduction and the World Bank: Progress in Fiscal...

Author:
ISBN: 9780821329283
Format: Paperback
$34.95

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Understanding Poverty in Poland: A World Bank Country Study

Understanding Poverty in Poland: A World Bank Country...

Author:
ISBN: 9780821333686
Format: Paperback
$34.95

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Participation of Nongovernmental Organizations

Participation of Nongovernmental Organizations

Author: Lee Sant'Anna Webb
ISBN: 9780821334409
Format: Paperback
$34.95

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POVERTY, FAMINE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: The Selected Essays of Meghnad Desai, Volume II

POVERTY, FAMINE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: The Selected...

Author: Meghnad Desai
ISBN: 9781852786908
Format: Hardback
$285.00

Issues discussed include econometric testing of the disguised unemployment hypothesis, theoretical and applied approaches...  Read More >>

Poverty Policy in Developing Countries

Poverty Policy in Developing Countries

Author: Stuart S. Nagel
ISBN: 9781559380546
Format: Hardback
$154.95

"This is the first volume in a series dedicated to exploring the relationship between global development and government/public...  Read More >>

Experience of Poverty: Fighting for respect and resources in village India

Experience of Poverty: Fighting for respect and resources...

Author: Tony Beck
ISBN: 9781853392184
Format: Paperback
$51.62

This book turns the standard approach to the poor and poverty upside down by focusing not on the weakness of poor...  Read More >>

Poverty and Political Culture: The Rhetoric of Social Welfare in the Netherlands and France, 1815-1854

Poverty and Political Culture: The Rhetoric of Social...

Author: Frances Gouda
ISBN: 9789053561591
Format: Hardback
$36.96

A study on different rhetorical approaches to poverty, charity and social welfare in the Netherlands and France...  Read More >>

Measuring Poverty: A New Approach

Measuring Poverty: A New Approach

Author: Panel On Pove National Research Council ,  Constance F Citro and Robert T Michael
ISBN: 9781280193538
Format: Electronic book text
$145.07

Each year's poverty figures are anxiously awaited by policymakers, analysts, and the media. Yet questions are increasing...  Read More >>

Mole People

Mole People

Author: Jennifer Toth
ISBN: 9781306033671
Format: Electronic book text
$36.93

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Europa Der Regionen: Zwischen Anspruch Und Wirklichkeit

Europa Der Regionen: Zwischen Anspruch Und Wirklichkeit...

Author: Ursula Bauer
ISBN: 9783700121091
Format: Paperback
$23.76

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Urban Poverty in Asia

Urban Poverty in Asia

Author: Ernesto M. Pernia
ISBN: 9780195867701
Format: Hardback
$77.50

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Bread & Spirit: Therapy with the New Poor: Diversity of Race, Culture, and Values

Bread & Spirit: Therapy with the New Poor: Diversity...

Author: Harry J. Aponte
ISBN: 9780393701760
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Stressing culture, community and choice, this book outlines a therapy for the new poor, a people poor more because...  Read More >>

No Easy Walk: Newark, 1980-1993

No Easy Walk: Newark, 1980-1993

Author: Helen M. Stummer ,  Helen M. Stummer
ISBN: 9781566392433
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Focusing on Central Ward's neighboring resident Carol, and her family and neighbors, this title offers a portrayal...  Read More >>

Poor Women and Children in the European Past

Poor Women and Children in the European Past

Author: John Henderson ,  Richard Wall
ISBN: 9780415077163
Format: Hardback
$409.20

This original collection provides a comparative survey of the poverty experienced by women and children in the European...  Read More >>

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