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  • Crafting Policies to End Poverty in Latin America
    Ana Lorena De La O
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    124,62 €

  • Mi Rincóncito en el Cielo
    Theresa Barron-McKeagney
    Mi Rincóncito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto 'Beto' Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist. The book explores themes of family relationships, neighborhood segregation, the impacts...
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    39,44 €

  • London Lives
    Robert Shoemaker / Tim Hitchcock
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    70,91 €

  • Yokohama Street Life
    Tom Gill
    Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks and construction sites of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama. Kimitsu emerges as a unique vo...
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    118,38 €

  • Generational Poverty
    Adam D. Vass Gal / Adam DVass Gal
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    47,61 €

  • Asia-Africa Development Divergence
    David Henley
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    42,04 €

  • Poverty of Nations
    Dr Subhrendu Bhattacharya
    The book deals with the concept of poverty, its causes and cures. The rich ordinarily blaming the poor that latter remain poor, because of their being lazy and the poor feeling that their poverty, arises from the exploitation by the rich, both views have been attempted to be dismantled. The dichotomy of poverty and the affluence has not been an age old phenomenon. The inequalit...
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    16,27 €

  • Social Assistance in Developing Countries
    Armando Barrientos
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    30,10 €

  • Blaming the Victim
    Jairo Lugo-Ocando
    Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today’s news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and decontextualise the causes and consequences of poverty worldwide. The result is that the fundamental determinant of poverty - ine...
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    47,42 €

  • The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor
    Thorstein Veblen
    Originally published in 1899, this is a work by Thorstein Veblen, an American economist and sociologist. It is an article written for the American Journal of Sociology publication outlining some of his theories on work. We are republishing this work with a brand new introductory biography of the author with the aim of placing it in the context of his other writings and achievem...
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    13,50 €

  • Alleviating Global Poverty
    Lewis D. Solomon
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    23,40 €

  • Alleviating Global Poverty
    Lewis D. Solomon
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    31,80 €

  • The Hobo
    Nels Anderson
    2014 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is an account, written with insight and sympathy, of the life of the hobo, life in 'Hobohemia,' a frontier that was already beginning to vanish when this study originally appeared in 1923. The author, drawing from his own experience as a hobo, picture...
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    21,41 €

  • Legal Rights of the Poor
    Naresh Singh
    This book seeks to be relevant to the call to address inequalities, injustice, human rights, and social exclusion in a more integrated, holistic, and transformative manner. It seeks to do so by looking at what we have learned in both the development and human rights communities. Further, it addresses fundamental obstacles that neither community has dealt with in this context, s...
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    22,94 €

  • Diversity and the Processes of Marginalisation
    Sara Ashencaen Crabtree
    This edited social work collection offers diverse perspectives on the broad theme of marginalization and social inclusion in Europe. Chapter contributions have been drawn from both established academics and students of social work and sociology presenting at the 2013 SocNet (Erasmus European Network in Social Work) international symposium. This collection forms a companion piec...
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    47,29 €

  • StreetWays
    A volume in The University of Miami School of Education and Human Development SeriesSeries Editors Etiony Aldarondo and Eugene F. Provenzo Jr., University of MiamiStreetWays: Chronicling the Homeless in Miami is a collection of interviews with 28 homeless individualsliving in downtown Miami and Miami Beach. Besides extensive photographs of these people and their liveson the str...
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    62,11 €

  • Streetways
    A volume in The University of Miami School of Education and Human Development SeriesSeries Editors Etiony Aldarondo and Eugene F. Provenzo Jr., University of MiamiStreetWays: Chronicling the Homeless in Miami is a collection of interviews with 28 homeless individualsliving in downtown Miami and Miami Beach. Besides extensive photographs of these people and their liveson the str...
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    92,29 €

  • Securing the Right to Employment
    Philip Harvey
    Basing his proposal on plans developed by New Deal social welfare administrators, Harvey analyzes the feasibility and desirability of using public sector job creation to secure a right to employment. He shows that such a policy would provide more effective relief from the problems of poverty and unemployment than do existing arrangements while permitting a major expansion in th...
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    48,40 €

  • The Poverty of Revolution
    Susan Eva Eckstein
    The plight of the urban poor in Mexico has changed little since World War II, despite the country’s impressive rate of economic growth. Susan Eckstein considers how market forces and state policies that were ostensibly designed to help the poor have served to maintain their poverty. She draws on intensive research in a center city slum, a squatter settlement, and a low-cost hou...
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    85,38 €

  • Public Health in Appalachia
    Wendy Welch
    The Appalachian region of the United States sees hunger, poverty, disability, preventable illness and premature death in disproportionally high numbers. Yet, Appalachia also knows the quiet strength of people working together to lift one another up as a community. In this collection of essays, health professionals explore how clinics and communities address the barriers to heal...
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    50,28 €

  • The Squatters’ Movement in Europe
    The Squatters’ Movement in Europe is the first definitive guide to squatting as an alternative to capitalism. It offers a unique insider’s view on the movement - its ideals, actions and ways of life. At a time of growing crisis in Europe with high unemployment, dwindling social housing and declining living standards, squatting has become an increasingly popular option.The book ...
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    42,01 €

  • Zero Hunger
    Aaron Ansell
    When Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil’s Workers’ Party soared to power in 2003, he promised to end hunger in the nation. In a vivid ethnography with an innovative approach to Brazilian politics, Aaron Ansell assesses President Lula’s flagship antipoverty program, Zero Hunger (Fome Zero), focusing on its rollout among agricultural workers in the poor northeastern state of Pia...
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    51,21 €

  • Shaped by Fire
    Courtney R. Logan
    Growing up in East St. Louis, Illinois isn't easy. For a long time, it has been one of America's poorest and deadliest cities. Many residents turn to drugs, crime, and other vices. Most struggle to make ends meet, and relatively few become successful. Despite overwhelming odds, Courtney R. Logan escaped, becoming a prominent litigation attorney, professor, and family man. In t...
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    14,92 €

  • Surviving the Global Financial and Economic Downturn
    Glenda Reyes / Hossein Jalilian / Sothorn Kem
    The global financial and economic shock of 2007-09 is the third major economic crisis to have buffeted Cambodia in its post-conflict period, coming in the wake of the food crisis of 2007-08 and just a decade after the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 (the 'triple crises'). Cambodia’s post-conflict history can be divided into two periods: 1991-98, referred to as the early phase...
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    67,05 €

  • What Is to be Done for Ireland?
    John Ball
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    28,25 €

  • America’s Growing Inequality
    The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council from 2006 to the present. Authors are some of the leading figures in a range of activities around these themes. It is the fourth such book PRRAC has published over the years, each with a high-visibility foreword writer: ...
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    214,47 €

  • Perspectives on Legal Aid
    Frederick H. Zemans / Frederick HZemans
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    54,41 €

  • The Mediation of Poverty
    Joanna Redden
    The Mediation of Poverty: The News, New Media, and Politics discusses the influence of the increasing use of digital technologies on media and political responses to poverty in the United Kingdom and Canada. Considering poverty politics at symbolic and structural levels, Joanna Redden uses a frame analysis of mainstream and alternative news content to identify which narratives ...
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    132,10 €

  • Poor Relief in England, 1350-1600
    Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
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    74,08 €

  • The Fair Trade Scandal
    Ndongo Samba Sylla / David Clément Leye
    The Fair Trade Scandal takes aim at the Fair Trade consumer movement which many assume to be entirely benign. Through a razor-sharp analysis based on insider knowledge, Ndongo Sylla shows that there is a big gap between the rhetoric of Fair Trade and its practical results. Sylla shows empirically that Fair Trade excludes those who need it the most and that its benefits are esse...
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    37,16 €


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