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An Atlas of Poverty in America : One Nation, Pulling Apart, 1960-2003 with CDROM
Amy K. Glasmeier
Paperback - $92.95
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 ...
From Poverty to Power : How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World
Duncan Green
Paperback - $58.95
Cardboard Condo : How the Homeless Survive the Streets
Robert C. Greene
Paperback - $27.95
This is a book about homeless people. What do you feel when you encounter one? Fear? Pity? Revulsion? Guilt? Indifference? Or, do you not see them at all?
In an effort to make the reader see homeless persons as real people, each one a separate and ...
Poverty and Inequality
David B. Grusky
Paperback - $40.95
“ This slim volume offers ample food for thought to scholars with a serious interest in social or economic inequality. The star contributors— economists, sociologists, political scientists, and philosophers— present concepts, theori ...
Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work : One State's Successful Experiment
Dave Hage
Paperback - $30.95
One of the most controversial and divisive issues in America, welfare reform stirs endless legislative study and heated debate but often results in political gridlock. Such was the case in the late 1980s when the Minnesota legislature came to a stale ...
Hands to Work : Three Women Navigate the New World of Welfare Deadlines and Work Rules
LynNell Hancock
Paperback - $26.95
In this illuminating examination of our national welfare policy, award-winning veteran reporter and writer LynNell Hancock offers an intimate, heart-wrenching, and beautifully rendered portrait of three women and their families as they struggle to fi ...
Inventing the Needy : Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary
Lynne A. Haney
Paperback - $56.95
"In her beautifully written, deeply researched, and elegantly argued book, Lynne Haney shows how much American policy-makers can learn from Hungary's social welfare experience. By unpacking the very different strategies that Hungary has adopted durin ...
The Problem of the Distressed Areas - An Examination of Poverty and Unemployment
Wal Hannington
Paperback - $62.95
An examination of poverty and unemployment, originally published in the 1930s. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing ...
Good Company : A Tramp Life
Douglas A. Harper
Paperback - $41.95
Good Company: A Tramp Life is a vivid portrait of a lifestyle long part of America's history, yet rapidly disappearing. The author traveled extensively by freight train to gain rich insights into the elusive world of the tramp. Richly illustrated wit ...