Poverty & Homelessness

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact...

'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' SpectatorYou can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business.When he was a struggling writer in his twenties, George Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest...

The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters. And the problem of the American city is epitomized in public space. Mean Streets offers, in a single,...

Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience reveals untold stories from people who have been left out of the media narrative and left behind by government policy. Featuring the work of accomplished documentary photographers, the book presents...

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues...

A Washington Post bestseller While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor. It is a plague of everyday violence. Beneath the...

FROM THE MAN BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF HARVEST'The Melody takes its place among his finest [novels] . . . an ecological fable for modern times' Guardian'Seductively atmospheric . . . deeply moving' Daily Mail'Brilliant' ObserverAlfred Busi, famed in...

A revolutionary approach to poverty that takes human irrationality into account-and unlocks the mystery of making philanthropic spending really work. American individuals and institutions spent billions of dollars to ease global poverty and accomplished...

Today 13 million people are living in poverty in the UK. According to a 2017 report, 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line. The new poor, however, are an even larger group than these official figures suggest. They are more often than not in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060878849Author William T. VollmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Why are houses so expensive? Is our banking system going to collapse again? Should we be worried that robots are going to take all our jobs? And just what exactly is the economy anyway? Economists and politicians would have you believe it is a rarified...

The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the literature on poverty, communal welfare systems and alternative welfare strategies. Offers a new perspective on how we should conceptualise poverty and how ordinary families and communities responded...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A raw, intimate story of trust and betrayal' - A. L. Kennedy, The Observer'It's heartbreaking. It's scary. It's beautiful' - Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called OveWill You Care If I Die? is a disarmingly direct memoir...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798770Author Jacqueline NovogratzFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

What if the idealized image of American society-a land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic success-is completely wrong? Few topics have as many myths, stereotypes, and misperceptions surrounding them as that of poverty in America...

Drawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest charitable food organisations, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity. As the welfare state withdraws,...

'A jaw-dropping investigation' - THE BOOKSELLER 'Succeeds brilliantly in dismantling casual assumptions about the drudgery of cleaning' - THE GUARDIAN 'A great book, well researched, funny and poignant. I loved it.' - KIT DE WAAL Dishing the...

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearFifty years after Michael Harrington published his ground-breaking book The Other America , in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a...

Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this...

"Fluffy was covered all over in thick, black fur and he was - well - fluffy ..."; Fluffy the cat likes the quiet life. Unfortunately, he has a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles who love to squabble and fight and sing. And he is never allowed indoors,...

14 Nights is a timely and essential conversation about how we understand homelessness in the UK. Compiled by The Archer Project - a charity based in Sheffield who have been providing support for the homeless community for over 30 years - the book is...

Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundingsCallous Objects unearths cases in which cities push homeless people out of public spaces through a combination of policy and strategic design. Robert Rosenberger examines such commonplace devices...

From Venezuelan reporter Paula Ramon comes a powerful memoir about one woman's complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin. In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic...

The author raises some fundamental questions about the distribution of wealth. Why is it that those who produce the wealth, the workers, receive only a small portion of what they have produced? Why are there so many unemployed and so cannot provide for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546188Author Elizabeth Carpenter-SongFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In Indiana, one million people lose their healthcare, food stamps, and cash benefits in three years-because a new computer system interprets any application mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative...

This absorbing book explores all aspects of life in that feared institution, the workhouse. From the staff who lived and worked there to the poor souls kept in the medical wing, it reveals a side of Basingstoke that has long since been forgotten. It...

The political debate about poverty is entirely dominated by groups calling for more income transfers to the poor. However, now that the scope of our welfare state has reached - or even surpassed - Scandinavian levels, surely this approach has run its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541645721Author Thomas AbtFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm * 30mm

Over recent years, tabloid readers have become familiar with the concept of the "white working class", those thought to have been "left behind" by globalization, including immigration. Such sentiments were weaponized by politicians on all sides to fuel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247328Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951724160Author Christian LivermoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Indie Blue Publishing LLCPublisher Indie Blue Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855983185Author Kevin WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Oxfam ProfessionalPublisher Oxfam PublishingWeight(grams) 560g

At a time of growing wealth and income inequality in the United States during recent decades, Class and Inequality in the United States examines the nature and sources of social inequality based on class, race, and gender relations throughout the course...

A profound exploration into the spiritual beliefs and practices of Seattle's unhoused youth Soul Woundedness is an intimate, piercing book about everyday life for young adults living on the streets of Seattle. Based on over five years of research and as...

Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United StatesTent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people with a place to create and sustain not just shelter but a home. In 2000 it became one of the first organized, peer-operated tent encampments...

Can entrepreneurship serve as a pathway out of poverty? Are the poor able to create ventures that can improve their economic circumstances and enhance their lives? Poverty, Disadvantage and the Promise of Enterprise: A Capabilities Perspective argue that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111078311Author Saladdin Ahmed BahozdeFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter

One of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends, is the reduction of the homeless to what Hannah Arendt calls "the abstract nakedness of humanity" and what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life." Feldman argues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060954864Author Loretta Schwartz-NobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 227g