Poverty & Homelessness

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605207346Author Henry MayhewFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 907g

The poverty that drives people to begging has been a pressing social issue in this country since its inception. This historical book explores begging and beggars in the period 1850 to 1940, with emphasis on how the police, the courts, the media and...

In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039105553Author Eric W SagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 299g

This book consists of papers that present the findings of research done by the SMERU Research Institute in Jakarta, Indonesia. Most describe the effects on the poor of the Indonesian economic crisis of 1997-98 and the response of the Indonesian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464800948Author Victoria MonchukFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

This study documents the effects of the 2008-09 global financial crisis on poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In doing so, it describes and decomposes the effects of the crisis on poverty using data from comparable household budget surveys...

In A People's War on Poverty, Wesley G. Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. He argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and...

Credit and debt appear to be natural, permanent facets of Americans' lives, but a debt-based economy and debt-financed lifestyles are actually recent inventions. In 1951 Diners Club issued a plastic card that enabled patrons to pay for their meals at...

In a provocative assessment of American poverty and policy from 1950 to the present, Frank Stricker examines an era that has seen serious discussion about the causes of poverty and unemployment. Analyzing the War on Poverty, theories of the culture of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087879062Author Phillip FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint City of Hope OutreachPublisher City of Hope OutreachWeight(grams) 68g

This book deals with poverty monitoring and alleviation in East Asia. This is currently an area of great interest to scholars, activists, policy-makers and the public. Prior to the onset of the Asian financial crisis in 1997, many were optimistic that...

There are estimated to be almost 60 million people living in poverty throughout the European Union. This bleak statistic underlines the value of this important book which explores the nature and extent of poverty and social exclusion in six European...

This remarkable book presents a series of vignettes of homeless people from the streets of New York. Riveting photographs of each person accompany the stories. Many of us tend to lump all the homeless together into a single, faceless category. It's easy...

Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality: Do we have a...

It has been said that the poor will always be with us. But that does not mean we are obliged to ignore squalor. Concern about poverty stretches across national borders, from the third world to the street corners of Manhattan; whether one believes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781313592703Author Henry MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Most governments attempt to target resources directly at the poor through a variety of measures including food and credit subsidies, job creation schemes and basic health and education projects. These measures are usually classified as being either...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670082728Author Dipankar GuptaFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Viking (India)Publisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

For fourteen remarkable years, the Sophia Project in California served over one hundred mothers and children, all of whom were at risk of or had experienced homelessness and abuse.Drawing on the principles of Camphill and a Waldorf approach to child...

Despite Western society's preoccupation with safety and protection, its most vulnerable members still lack access to the level of security that many of us take for granted. In this trailblazing study, Laura Huey illustrates the issue of a 'security gap'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853459057Author Sheila CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853459040Author Sheila D CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039105560Author Eric W SagerFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789766402303Author Dick ThornburghFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint University of the West Indies PressPublisher University of the West Indies Press

Does the American Dream still exist when nearly 30 million Americans live in families in which workers find a paycheck and poverty in the same envelope? Just as Michael Harrington's The Other America shocked the nation with its disclosure of poverty in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060512163Author Lynnell HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 254g

"When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through." Ghostbread makes real for us the shifting homes and unending hunger that shape the life of a girl growing up in poverty during the 1970s.One of seven children brought up by a single...

In this book, Charles Sackrey analyzes the problem of urban poverty, pointing out the severe limitations of all existing data. He explains the different theories of the principal causes of urban poverty, in particular the poverty among urban blacks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375713286Author Thomas Homer-DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Does the American Dream still exist when nearly 30 million Americans live in families in which workers find a paycheck and poverty in the same envelope? Just as Michael Harrington's The Other America shocked the nation with its disclosure of poverty in...

This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex stories on how children’s social identities (gender, caste, and religion), cultural norms, and personal aspirations influence their...

The idea for this volume resulted from the preparation of a bulletin on poor relief in North Carolina for the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. Beginning with the problems of pauperism, the author discusses the conditions of the three classes...

Being homeless in one's homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenouspeoples from their lands. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996808767Author Shirley AlarieFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Alarie Enterprises, LLCPublisher Alarie Enterprises, LLCWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993979965Author Dennis CardiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint 978-0-9939799-6-5Publisher 978-0-9939799-6-5Weight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993979927Author Karen SilvestriFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Dennis CardiffPublisher Dennis CardiffWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993979910Author Dennis CardiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint 978-0-9939799-1-0Publisher 978-0-9939799-1-0Weight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911312942Author Philippe DiazFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Robert Shackelford PublisherPublisher Robert Shackelford PublisherWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692633137Author Joseph H CrowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Stillwater River PublicationsPublisher Stillwater River PublicationsWeight(grams)...