Poverty & unemployment books

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A Deal They Can’t Resist: Adaptive Accumulation and American Public Policy

A Deal They Can’t Resist: Adaptive Accumulation and...

Author: Rodney Loeppky
ISBN: 9783111540832
Format: Paperback
$44.85

This work argues that a component part of US neoliberalism involves adaptive accumulation, a process in which capital...  Read More >>

Ending Famine in India: A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, C. 1890-1950

Ending Famine in India: A Transnational History of Food...

Author: Joanna Simonow
ISBN: 9789360806965
Format: Hardback
$172.07

Ending Famine in India examines the tripartite relationship of India, Britain and the United States, linking the...  Read More >>

Crooked Smile: What It Took to Escape a Decade of Homelessness, Addiction, & Crime

Crooked Smile: What It Took to Escape a Decade of Homelessness,...

Author: Jared Klickstein ,  Michael Shellenberger
ISBN: 9798888452523
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Featured In the Wall Street Journal As Seen on Jesse Watters As Heard on the Patrick Bet-David Podcast Crooked...  Read More >>

Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women

Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working...

Author: Batya Ungar-Sargon
ISBN: 9781641773614
Format: Hardback
$62.99

A personal, journalistic ethnography of the modern American working class, based on the travels and interactions...  Read More >>

Sanctuary: The Inner Life of Home

Sanctuary: The Inner Life of Home

Author: Valerie Andrews ,  Jean Shinoda Bolen
ISBN: 9781685032173
Format: Paperback
$71.28

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Sanctuary: The Inner Life of Home

Sanctuary: The Inner Life of Home

Author: Valerie Andrews ,  Jean Shinoda Bolen
ISBN: 9781685032180
Format: Hardback
$110.88

Featuring Jean Shinoda Bolen, James Hollis and more. If you want to know someone, listen to their story of home....  Read More >>

The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations

The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations

Author: Prof. Christof Parnreiter (University of Hamburg)
ISBN: 9781788215596
Format: Paperback
$64.66

A corrective to the view that cities are only ever ""good"", arguing that the same urban properties which make cities...  Read More >>

The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations

The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations

Author: Prof. Christof Parnreiter (University of Hamburg)
ISBN: 9781788215589
Format: Hardback
$194.06

A corrective to the view that cities are only ever ""good"", arguing that the same urban properties which make cities...  Read More >>

Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru

Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft...

Author: Kristin Skrabut
ISBN: 9781477329108
Format: Paperback
$92.27

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.  Read More >>

Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru

Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft...

Author: Kristin Skrabut
ISBN: 9781477329092
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost...

Author: Monica Potts
ISBN: 9780141986746
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller now in paperback- an unforgettable story of friendship and lost promise...  Read More >>

Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty in Victorian London

Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty...

Author: Lynn Hamilton
ISBN: 9781399054546
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Discover the realities of Victorian England that informed the famous Dickens characters.  Read More >>

The Logic of Poverty: The Case of the Brazilian Northeast

The Logic of Poverty: The Case of the Brazilian Northeast...

Author: Simon Mitchell
ISBN: 9781032762593
Format: Hardback
$196.00

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Just ACT: We Are the Solution to Poverty

Just ACT: We Are the Solution to Poverty

Author: Angie Peters
ISBN: 9781998815173
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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The Girl Who Lived On Her Clothes: The People of Paisley and the New Poor Law, 1839–76

The Girl Who Lived On Her Clothes: The People of Paisley...

Author: Valentina Bold ,  Wendy Gordon
ISBN: 9781800799905
Format: Paperback
$103.50

An engaging, compassionate social history of poverty and poor relief in Paisley, including the implementation of...  Read More >>

Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows

Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh:...

Author: Sabina Faiz Rashid (Brac University, Bangladesh)
ISBN: 9781032740607
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts of the slums of Dhaka city and will appeal to the fields...  Read More >>

Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty

Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty...

Author: Ali A. Allawi
ISBN: 9780300214284
Format: Hardback
$51.95

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Fiscal Incidence in Timor-Leste: Impact of Taxation and Public Expenditure on Poverty and Inequality

Fiscal Incidence in Timor-Leste: Impact of Taxation...

Author: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9789292705954
Format: Paperback
$51.70

This report presents policy simulations that consider the revenue and distributional impacts of possible changes...  Read More >>

Making Room: Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging, and a Safe Place for LGBTQ Youth

Making Room: Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging,...

Author: Carl Siciliano
ISBN: 9780593444245
Format: Paperback
$47.52

From a pioneering advocate for LGBTQ youth, a gripping, impassioned account of how an unhoused queer youth's murder...  Read More >>

Estuve Aqui Y Me Acorde de Nosotros

Estuve Aqui Y Me Acorde de Nosotros

Author: Anna Pacheco
ISBN: 9788433922304
Format: Paperback
$36.83

An essay on job insecurity. Between the chronicle and the essay, a chilling x-ray of the labor dynamics in the tourism...  Read More >>

The Poverty of Growth

The Poverty of Growth

Author: Olivier De Schutter ,  Kate Raworth
ISBN: 9780745350233
Format: Paperback
$30.95

An accessible, jargon-free manifesto for how to achieve prosperity without growth  Read More >>

Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning

Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty,...

Author: Steven T. Moga
ISBN: 9780226833330
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Poor

Poor

Author: Katriona O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9780241996768
Format: Paperback
$24.99

'One of the best books I have ever read about the complexities of poverty . . . one of the most remarkable people...  Read More >>

Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

Author: Niall O’Flaherty ,  Robin Mills
ISBN: 9781526166777
Format: Hardback
$206.99

This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious...  Read More >>

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