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Empire of Scrounge : Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging
Jeff Ferrell
Paperback - $50.95
A firecracker of a book. Prepare yourself for total immersion. It reads like Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell with a sense of fun; it has all the detail and magic of James Agee. A pleasure to read: anarchic, irreverent and totally rele ...
Class : A Guide Through the American Status System
Paul Fussell
Paperback - $23.95
In his highly entertaining observations of class in America, Fussell shows how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. Funny, insightful, and at times outrageous, Class is guaranteed to amuse everyone, from high-class to low. Line d ...
Social Exclusion and Mobility in Brazil
Estanislao Gacitua Mario
Paperback - $62.95
Brazil is a country of sharp disparities. The gap between the richest and the poorest is one of the largest in the world. Brazil inequality is well known, but few studies have sought to investigate how forms of social exclusion constraint socioeconom ...
The True Cost of Low Prices : The Violence of Globaliztion
Vincent A. Gallagher
Paperback - $24.95
An expose of the results of Today's Global economy on the poor. Low prices that benefit first-world consumers often put the poor at even greater risk. As tansnational corporations try to increase profits by reducing costs, laborers in Latin America, ...
The War Against the Poor : The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy
Herbert Gans
Paperback - $42.95
"In his withering dissection of the origins and misuse of the term "underclass" to stereotype and stigmatize the poor, Herbert J. Gans shows how this ubiquitous label has relegated a wide variety of pe"
Underbelly : The Palm Beach No One Talks about
David Martin Geliebter
Hardcover - $54.95
Underbelly is a look at homelessness and addiction in Palm Beach County, through the eyes of the homeless people themselves, told through a series of first-person stories.
Invisible City : Poverty, Housing, and New Urbanism
John I. Gilderbloom
Paperback - $54.95
A legendary figure in the realms of public policy and academia, John Gilderbloom is one of the foremost urban-planning researchers of our time, producing groundbreaking studies on housing markets, design, location, regulation, financing, and communit ...
Labour and the Poor in England and Wales 1849-1951 : V.1. Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire
Jules Ginswick
Paperback - $101.95
An Atlas of Poverty in America : One Nation, Pulling Apart 1960-2003 with CDROM
Amy K. Glasmeier
Hardcover - $187.95
Persistant poverty has long been one of Americas most pressing and intractable problems. According to some estimates, by 2003: almost 25% of the America's counties had per-capita incomes below one half the national average, high unemployment, low lab ...