Poverty & unemployment books

Rapid economic changes throughout the world economy offer new possibilities for economic development. Yet the multitude...  Read More >>

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This text argues for a new synthesis of liberal, conservative and radical views concerning poverty in order to appreciate...  Read More >>

This volume evaluates a range of assessment measures with regard to older adults. The expert contributors address...  Read More >>

Argues that safety nets can provide an environment in which economic reform is more politically sustainable and...  Read More >>

This book is designed to help readers navigate through the vast and rapidly growing literature on poverty in urban...  Read More >>

This book is designed to help readers navigate through the vast and rapidly growing literature on poverty in urban...  Read More >>

Describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and...  Read More >>

80,000 African Americans have sickle cell disease (SCD). This study documents in social, economic and cultural terms,...  Read More >>

This volume studies what can be done for alleviating rural poverty. Four chapters address the measurement of poverty...  Read More >>

The End of the Line tells the story of the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kathryn...  Read More >>

Idle Hands focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching...  Read More >>

By combining history with sociology, Rothstein presents a new way of looking at state-supported schools. He describes...  Read More >>

A collection of essays which explores the problems of crime and racism in urban America. The author believes that...  Read More >>

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Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies...  Read More >>

One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization...  Read More >>

Layard, Nickell and Jackman have revised and updated part of their book Unemployment. The authors focus on the OECD...  Read More >>

Layard, Nickell and Jackman have revised and updated part of their book Unemployment. The authors focus on the OECD...  Read More >>

This book describes how deprived urban children and their families and communities try to cope with scarcity, neglect...  Read More >>

This monograph surveys the issues that need to be considered in answering questions relating to poverty comparisons....  Read More >>

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A comprehensive examination of the impact of single motherhood on the physical and mental health of women and their...  Read More >>

In Employment and Human Rights: The International Dimension, Richard Lewis Siegel discusses the historical evolution...  Read More >>