Poverty & unemployment books

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Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation

Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided...

Author: Various Authors ,  John Freeman
ISBN: 9781665247979
Format: Audio
$184.77

Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America-including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett,...  Read More >>

Precarious Enterprise on the Margins: Work, Poverty, and Homelessness in the City

Precarious Enterprise on the Margins: Work, Poverty,...

Author: Jessica Gerrard
ISBN: 9781137594822
Format: Hardback
$263.97

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Survival of the Richest: How the Corruption of the Marketplace and the Disparity of Wealth Created the Greatest Conspiracy of All

Survival of the Richest: How the Corruption of the Marketplace...

Author: Donald Jeffries ,  Richard Syrett
ISBN: 9781510720657
Format: Hardback
$44.99

A fresh look at economic inequality in America  Read More >>

Life and Labor of a Social Activist and Her Family: A Mexican Story

Life and Labor of a Social Activist and Her Family:...

Author: Tamar Diana Wilson Ph D ,  Tamar Diana Wilson Ph D
ISBN: 9781546857938
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Ernestina took part in the flow of rural to urban migrants so common in Mexico since the second World War: she had...  Read More >>

Persistence of Poverty in India

Persistence of Poverty in India

Author: Nandini Gooptu ,  Jonathan Parry
ISBN: 9781138099661
Format: Hardback
$305.00

What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises...  Read More >>

Gender, Poverty and Livelihood in the Eastern Himalayas

Gender, Poverty and Livelihood in the Eastern Himalayas...

Author: Sanjoy Hazarika ,  Reshmi Banerjee
ISBN: 9781138696426
Format: Hardback
$210.00

This book explores the ways in which gender-sensitive and inclusive policies can be developed to address the basic...  Read More >>

Slums: The History of a Global Injustice

Slums: The History of a Global Injustice

Author: Alan Mayne
ISBN: 9781780238098
Format: Hardback
$44.99

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Youth Marginality in Britain: Contemporary Studies of Austerity

Youth Marginality in Britain: Contemporary Studies of...

Author: Anthony Rudd ,  Robert Mcpherson (Canterbury Christ Church University)
ISBN: 9781447330547
Format: Paperback
$61.95

This collections showcases contemporary research on multiple youth deprivation of personal isolation, social hardship,...  Read More >>

Youth Marginality in Britain: Contemporary Studies of Austerity

Youth Marginality in Britain: Contemporary Studies of...

Author: Anthony Rudd ,  Robert Mcpherson (Canterbury Christ Church University)
ISBN: 9781447330523
Format: Hardback
$176.95

This collections showcases contemporary research on multiple youth deprivation of personal isolation, social hardship,...  Read More >>

Caring for the Poor: Islamic and Christian Benevolence in a Liberal World

Caring for the Poor: Islamic and Christian Benevolence...

Author: Cihan Tugal
ISBN: 9781138041035
Format: Hardback
$347.00

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The Poverty of Privacy Rights

The Poverty of Privacy Rights

Author: Khiara M. Bridges
ISBN: 9781503602267
Format: Paperback
$68.64

The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived...  Read More >>

The Poverty of Privacy Rights

The Poverty of Privacy Rights

Author: Khiara M. Bridges
ISBN: 9780804795456
Format: Hardback
$277.20

The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived...  Read More >>

Pruitt-Igoe

Pruitt-Igoe

Author: Bob Hansman
ISBN: 9781540216984
Format: Hardback
$84.45

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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low Income Neighborhood

Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a...

Author: Anna Seiferle-Valencia
ISBN: 9781912302109
Format: Hardback
$51.72

MacLeod’s 1987 work, ground-breaking for the way it combines field research with theory, follows the lives of two...  Read More >>

I Need Real Tuxedo and a Top Hat!

I Need Real Tuxedo and a Top Hat!

Author: Wyatt Doyle (New Texture the Stanley J Zappa Quartet Kendra Steiner Editions League of)
ISBN: 9781943444120
Format: Hardback
$51.62

Street people and street life in photographs and stories by the author of STOP REQUESTED, DOLLAR HALLOWEEN, and...  Read More >>

Life of a Cloud........a Short Story by Kimberly Cloud: Edited by Laurie D. Willis

Life of a Cloud........a Short Story by Kimberly Cloud:...

Author: MS Kimberly Cloud
ISBN: 9780989409629
Format: Paperback
$31.68

The book is about what Kimberly Cloud goes through in her life. It speaks to how she dedicated her life trying to...  Read More >>

Caring for the Poor: Islamic and Christian Benevolence in a Liberal World

Caring for the Poor: Islamic and Christian Benevolence...

Author: Cihan Tugal
ISBN: 9781138041042
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Based on several years of fieldwork in Egypt and Turkey, Caring for the Poor tells the stories of charity providers...  Read More >>

The Open Door: Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness in the Era of Community Treatment

The Open Door: Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness...

Author: Carol L. M. Caton (Professor, Professor, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780190463380
Format: Hardback
$128.95

The Open Door provides a comprehensive, carefully documented ""state of the science"" on homelessness and mental...  Read More >>

The Great Society and the War on Poverty: An Economic Legacy in Essays and Documents

The Great Society and the War on Poverty: An Economic...

Author: John R. Burch Jr.
ISBN: 9781440833878
Format: Hardback
$148.00

An ideal resource for students as well as general readers, this book comprehensively examines the Great Society...  Read More >>

When Growth Is not Enough: Explaining the Rigidity of Poverty in the Dominican Republic

When Growth Is not Enough: Explaining the Rigidity of...

Author: Francisco Galrao Carneiro ,  Sophie Sirtaine
ISBN: 9781464810367
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Assembles a collection of empirical analyses that explore three complementary hypotheses that could help understand...  Read More >>

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