Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.

In 1890, when the book was published, the Lower East Side was a landscape of teeming streets and filthy tenements crowded with immigrants living in dreadful conditions.

Focusing on two romances--Jessica's dizzying infatuation with a hugely successful young heroin dealer, Boy George, and Coco's first love with Jessica's little brother, Cesar--Random Family is the story of young people trying to outrun their ...

This story of modern-day slavery reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations.

Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.

In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.

The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists--from a leading national poverty expert who "defies convention" (New York Times) Praise for $2.00 a Day An eye-opening account of the lives ...

Humoristisk roman om nogle landstrygere i Californien, som har forkærlighed for vin. De lever et sorgløst dag-til-dag-liv blandt den fattige befolkning, som er af forskellig oprindelse

Moreover, it provides a new vision that inextricably links the study of poverty to the broader study of political economy. This book will be discussed and debated for many years.

Annotation Reports Nightingale's accomplishments in developing a public heath care system based on disease prevention. Includes papers, letters and "Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes."