Poverty & unemployment books

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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

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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
$179.00

First published in 1981, The Logic of Poverty consists of eight essays that look at rural structure and the role...  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
$59.99

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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
$273.00

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

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment...  Read More >>

The Poverty of Growth

The Poverty of Growth

Author: Olivier De Schutter ,  Kate Raworth
ISBN: 9780745350233
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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

Poor: The No. 1 bestseller – ‘Moving, uplifting, brave heroic’ BBC Woman’s Hour

Poor: The No. 1 bestseller – ‘Moving, uplifting, brave...

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 >>

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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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 >>

The Handbook of Research on Trauma with Children: Working with High Poverty Schools and Communities

The Handbook of Research on Trauma with Children: Working...

Author: La Vera C. Brown ,  Tahani Dari
ISBN: 9781793511874
Format: Paperback
$93.50

The Handbook of Research on Trauma with Children: Working with High Poverty Schools and Communities helps readers...  Read More >>

Undercurrent: Nero Book Awards shortlist 2023

Undercurrent: Nero Book Awards shortlist 2023

Author: Natasha Carthew
ISBN: 9781399706513
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2023, Undercurrent is a vivid, lyrical and powerful exploration of rural poverty,...  Read More >>

Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema

Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American...

Author: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
ISBN: 9780520390362
Format: Paperback
$49.95

"In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward...  Read More >>

How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland

How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in...

Author: Brad Evans
ISBN: 9781913462840
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Providing a searing insight and honest portrayal of post-industrial communities ravaged by decades of abandonment,...  Read More >>

Broke

Broke

Author: Tom Clark
ISBN: 9781785908293
Format: Paperback
$22.99

"A dozen years into austerity, statistical warning lights are flashing to suggest a return to types of deprivation...  Read More >>

The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation

The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation...

Author: Sarah Wise
ISBN: 9780861544554
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The shocking story of how the British government locked up thousands of innocent people – then forgot about them....  Read More >>

School Communities of Strength: Strategies for Educating Children Living in Deep Poverty

School Communities of Strength: Strategies for Educating...

Author: Peter W. Cookson, Jr. ,  David C. Berliner
ISBN: 9781682538807
Format: Paperback
$87.12

Lays out a blueprint for providing equitable educational opportunities for students from all socioeconomic strata,...  Read More >>

The Song of the Poor: And other stories from El Salvador

The Song of the Poor: And other stories from El Salvador...

Author:
ISBN: 9781915412386
Format: Hardback
$43.96

The Song of the Poor is a record of Fr Tommy Greenan's experiences as a young Scottish priest who chose to live...  Read More >>

Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City

Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City

Author: Yousuf Al-Bulushi
ISBN: 9783031424328
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Poverty, by America

Poverty, by America

Author: Matthew Desmond
ISBN: 9780141998794
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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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
$160.91

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

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making a Home

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making...

Author: Tony Sparks
ISBN: 9780295752617
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United States Tent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people...  Read More >>

The Death of Home: Aura and Space in the Age of Digitalization

The Death of Home: Aura and Space in the Age of Digitalization...

Author: Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde
ISBN: 9783111078311
Format: Hardback
$261.33

Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overcome spatial obstacles that used to shield...  Read More >>

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making a Home

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making...

Author: Tony Sparks
ISBN: 9780295752600
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United States Tent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people...  Read More >>

Enough: Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-Rich

Enough: Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-Rich

Author: Luke Hildyard
ISBN: 9780745348544
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A call for an end to obscene wealth  Read More >>

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