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 ...

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

The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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

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."