Poverty & unemployment books

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Poverty: Public Crisis or Private Struggle?

Poverty: Public Crisis or Private Struggle?

Author: Erin L McCoy ,  Joan Axelrod-Contrada
ISBN: 9781502642608
Format: Hardback
$120.49

Millions of Americans struggle with poverty every day. The United States prides itself on being the land of opportunity,...  Read More >>

Education Reform and Gentrification in the Age of #CamdenRising: Public Education and Urban Redevelopment in Camden, NJ

Education Reform and Gentrification in the Age of #CamdenRising:...

Author: Keith E. Benson
ISBN: 9781433160714
Format: Hardback
$318.38

Education Reform and Gentrification in the Age of #CamdenRising: Public Education and Urban Re-development in Camden,...  Read More >>

Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap: When and How Governments Power the Lives of the Poor

Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap: When and How Governments...

Author: Michaël Aklin (Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh) ,  Patrick Bayer (Lecturer, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9780262535861
Format: Paperback
$85.00

The first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, arguing that governments can improve energy...  Read More >>

Learned Helplessness, Welfare, and the Poverty Cycle

Learned Helplessness, Welfare, and the Poverty Cycle...

Author: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp
ISBN: 9781534504639
Format: Paperback
$87.12

"""This volume looks at the issue of poverty, the various theories about why it proliferates, and a number of proposed...  Read More >>

You Have Seen Their Faces

You Have Seen Their Faces

Author: Erskine Caldwell ,  Margaret Bourke-White
ISBN: 9780820355870
Format: Hardback
$290.27

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

Representations of Poverty and Place: Using Geographical Text Analysis to Understand Discourse

Representations of Poverty and Place: Using Geographical...

Author: Laura L Paterson ,  Ian N Gregory
ISBN: 9783319935027
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This book explores a novel methodological approach which combines analytical techniques from linguistics and geography...  Read More >>

The New Poverty

The New Poverty

Author: Stephen Armstrong
ISBN: 9781786634658
Format: Paperback
$22.99

We are living in an age with unprecedented levels of poverty. Who are the new poor? And what can we do about it?...  Read More >>

Beyond Suffering and Reparation: The Aftermath of Political Violence in the Peruvian Andes

Beyond Suffering and Reparation: The Aftermath of Political...

Author: Timothy James Bowyer
ISBN: 9783319989822
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book presents the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches, and questions that together define the lives of...  Read More >>

SDG1 - No Poverty: Making the Dream a Reality

SDG1 - No Poverty: Making the Dream a Reality

Author: Katarzyna Cichos (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland) ,  Amanda Lange Salvia (University of Passo Fundo, Brazil)
ISBN: 9781787696280
Format: Paperback
$79.00

This work provides a new look at global problems of poverty and presents applicable solutions to show that the global...  Read More >>

The Evolution of China's Poverty Alleviation and Development Policy (2001-2015)

The Evolution of China's Poverty Alleviation and Development...

Author: Changsheng Zuo
ISBN: 9789811316890
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This book explains in simple language the change of perspective and the transition of the systems for poverty alleviation,...  Read More >>

Money, Autonomy and Citizenship: The Experience of the Brazilian Bolsa Família

Money, Autonomy and Citizenship: The Experience of the...

Author: Alessandro Pinzani ,  Walquiria Leão Rego
ISBN: 9783030013608
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book analyzes the impacts on peoples’ lives of the largest antipoverty social program in the world: the Brazilian...  Read More >>

Punching and Kicking: Leaving Canada's Toughest Neighbourhood

Punching and Kicking: Leaving Canada's Toughest Neighbourhood...

Author: Kathy Dobson
ISBN: 9781550655001
Format: Paperback
$52.67

People don't leave the Point, even if they move far away. Or at least that's how it seems to journalist Kathy Dobson....  Read More >>

Walking By the Homeless

Walking By the Homeless

Author: Laura Sandretti
ISBN: 9781948365833
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Walking By the Homeless is a book about one suburban woman's journey from ignoring the homeless to identifying with...  Read More >>

Into the Hollow

Into the Hollow

Author: Lynn Vroman
ISBN: 9781945654169
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Poverty, Food Insecurity and Commercialization in Rural China

Poverty, Food Insecurity and Commercialization in Rural...

Author: Zhong Tong
ISBN: 9781138368996
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This study, first published in 1993, analyses the relationship among poverty, food insecurity and commercialization...  Read More >>

Down and Out Today: Notes from the Gutter

Down and Out Today: Notes from the Gutter

Author: Matthew Small
ISBN: 9781785079962
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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Tracing the consequences of child poverty: Evidence from the Young Lives study in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam

Tracing the consequences of child poverty: Evidence...

Author: Jo Boyden ,  Andrew Dawes
ISBN: 9781447348313
Format: Paperback
$32.95

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Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience

Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience...

Author: Paul Sng
ISBN: 9781447344117
Format: Paperback
$41.95

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London Labour and the London Poor; A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not Work

London Labour and the London Poor; A Cyclopaedia of...

Author: Henry Mayhew ,  William Tuckniss
ISBN: 9780344612527
Format: Paperback
$72.32

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

London Labour and the London Poor; A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not Work

London Labour and the London Poor; A Cyclopaedia of...

Author: Henry Mayhew ,  William Tuckniss
ISBN: 9780344612534
Format: Hardback
$98.20

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The Private Sector's Role in Poverty Reduction in Asia

The Private Sector's Role in Poverty Reduction in Asia...

Author: Scott Hipsher (Fort Hays State University's program in China, China)
ISBN: 9780081016169
Format: Paperback
$382.80

The private sector has an important role in poverty reduction in Asia. The Private Sector's Role in Poverty Reduction...  Read More >>

A World of Three Zeroes: the new economics of zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero carbon emissions

A World of Three Zeroes: the new economics of zero poverty,...

Author: Muhammad Yunus
ISBN: 9781911617273
Format: Paperback
$33.61

A Nobel Peace Prize-winner outlines his radical economic vision for a better future. Muhammad Yunus is the economist...  Read More >>

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