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Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and ...
subject:"Poor" from books.google.com
Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.
subject:"Poor" from books.google.com
This story of modern-day slavery reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations.
subject:"Poor" from books.google.com
Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.
subject:"Poor" from books.google.com
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.
subject:"Poor" from books.google.com
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.
subject:"Poor" from books.google.com
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 ...
subject:"Poor" from books.google.com
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Arab and Jew" comes a new book that gives a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.
subject:"Poor" from books.google.com
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.
subject:"Poor" from books.google.com
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."