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Voices of the Poor in Africa : Moral Economy and the Popular Imagination
Elizabeth Isichei
Paperback - $41.95
Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and the poetics of memory - an approach different from the quantitative and demographic studies which have transformed the subject over the past twenty years. ...
Cracks in the Pavement : Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods
Martin Sanchez Jankowski
Paperback - $51.95
The Persistence of Poverty : Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor
Charles Karelis
Hardcover - $54.95
In this important book, one of our boldest and most original thinkers charges that conventional explanations of poverty are mistaken, and that the anti-poverty policies built upon them are doomed to fail. Using science, history, fables, philosophical ...
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse : A Social History of Welfare in America, Tenth Anniversary Edition
Michael B. Katz
Paperback - $57.95
In this history, Katz explores the roots of our ambivalence toward welfare and the welfare state, revealing the patterns which have recurred from era to era and which continue to frustrate reformers to this day. From the poorhouse era to the New Deal ...
Water Supply and Sanitation Services for the Rural Poor : The Gram Vikas Experience
Pamela Keirns
Paperback - $62.95
Poverty and the Underclass : Changing Perceptions of the Poor in America
William A. Kelso
Hardcover - $117.95
In this timely work, William Kelso analyzes how the persistence of poverty has reversed liberal and conservative positions during the last thirty years. While liberals in the 1960s hoped to eliminate the causes of poverty, today they increasingly see ...