Catálogo de libros: Pobreza y desempleo

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  • Resist the Punitive State
    To examine government policy and state practice on housing, welfare, mental health, disability, prisons or immigration is to come face-to-face with the harsh realities of the ’punitive state’.But state violence and corporate harm always meet with resistance. With contributions from a wide range of activists and scholars, Resist the Punitive State highlights and theorises the fr...
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    134,71 €

  • Families in Economically Hard Times
    The purpose of the edited collection Families in Economically Hard Times: Experiences and Coping Strategies in Europe is to provide readers with unique sociological knowledge on European families’ experiences and behavioural strategies a decade after economic crisis of the 21st century. ...
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    152,48 €

  • Life Beyond Circumstance
    Jullian Smallwood
    A story about a young man's mental struggles between living in poverty or gaining success. With practically being homeless himself. Due to the Circumstances that was beyond his control. With both of his parents being on drugs. To his mother getting kicked out the family shelter because her drug abuse. Eventually, his mother was send to jail. With all of the things going on ...
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    15,62 €

  • Social Action and Self-Directed Groupwork
    Authors give attention to the theory and practice of social action and self-directed groupwork. These papers present a range of perspectives and experiences to provide a vivid account of social action as a values‑based approach committed to social justice and empowerment. In addition, they contain a wealth of ideas and practices, a detailed resource which we hope will inspire a...
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    44,01 €

  • Platform
    Jaime Jackson
    Democratic Egalitarianism is a belief in human equality and opportunity especially with respect to the social, political, and economic lives of a nation’s people.Platform points directly at a new and virulent strain of post-colonial feudalism that has evolved in our country from its inception 243 years ago. The result is a new class society — the New Feudalism — comprised of a ...
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    19,65 €

  • The Book on Ending Homelessness
    Iain De Jong
    The Book on Ending Homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While ending homelessness may seem to be a whacky or even preposterous idea, Iain De Jong takes more than two decades of experience as an award w...
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    46,11 €

  • The Book on Ending Homelessness
    Iain De Jong
    The Book on Ending Homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While ending homelessness may seem to be a whacky or even preposterous idea, Iain De Jong takes more than two decades of experience as an award w...
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    38,83 €

  • The McQueen Foundation Beginner's Guide for Helping the Homeless
    Dishambra McQueen
    Have you ever looked at a homeless person and thought to yourself, “That could easily be me?” The reality is many of us are one paycheck away from being in that very position. For Dishambra McQueen, that was her story before rising above her circumstances and founding The McQueen Foundation. Now, she trains other individuals with the same dream and passion to make a difference ...
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    13,00 €

  • Poverty and Welfare in America
    David Wagner
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    89,14 €

  • Struggling in the Land of Plenty
    Anne R. Roschelle / Anne RRoschelle
    Struggling in the Land of Plenty examines how gendered and racialized poverty, social structural inequality, intimate partner violence, and welfare reform have contributed to the rise in family homelessness, exposing the devastating consequences for women and their children. ...
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    129,24 €

  • Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World
    Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors--some eminent, some less well known--who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although d...
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    127,91 €

  • Night Comes to the Cumberlands
    Harry M. Caudill / Harry MCaudill
    2019 Reprint of 1963 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  The biography of the Cumberland Plateau in Appalachia begins in the violence of the Indian Wars and ends in the despair of the idle miners living off Welfare.  Two hundred years ago the plateau was a land of promise.  The deep, twisting valleys contained ric...
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    24,59 €

  • Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness
    Tomasz Rakowski
    The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment. Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after this degradation, tracking the experiences of unemployed miners, scrap collectors, and poverty-stricken village residents. Contrary to the images of passivity, resignation, and helple...
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    44,12 €

  • Shadow
    M. J. Manley / MJManley
    Dr. Michael J. Manley, a therapist for the homeless in Los Angeles, wanted to know what it’s really like living on the streets. So following his retirement, he purposely became like the people he had counseled, discovering that their life is far more difficult than he could have possibly imagined.African Americans living in the United States are treated unequal to the white Ame...
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    8,46 €

  • The Road
    Jack London
    “The Road” is a 1907 autobiographical memoir by American writer Jack London. Within it, London recounts his experience of being homeless during the 1890 depression in the United States. He tells of his having to hop freight trains, beg to survive, his various run-ins with the police, and much more in an interesting and insightful account of life during an economic depression. T...
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    20,21 €

  • GENDER INEQUALITY
    CLEMENT A TISDELL
    This unique book provides an easily comprehended overview of facts about gender inequality and contains a valuable introduction to economic theories of this inequality, the applicability of which is assessed in the light of empirical evidence. A special feature of this book is its adoption of a multidisciplinary approach to the study of gender inequality. Both economic and soci...
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    175,86 €

  • Emerson on Sound Money
    Willis George Emerson
    First published in 1896, 'Emerson on Sound Money' is the transcript of a speech delivered by Willis G. Emerson to the Young Men’s Republican Club at Lockerby Hall Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1896. The speech primarily concerns money and finances, referring to the contemporary political situation and providing suggestions as to how it can be improved. Willis George Emerson (1856 -...
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    14,78 €

  • The Thin Blue Lifeline
    Ellis Amdur / Hutchings John
    The first section of this book is tactical: everything from field safety and strategic planning on one side, to honing your intuition to pick up early signs of danger on the other. In the second section of the book, the authors focus on us: what we can do to achieve a state of integrity and powerful calm. Rather than abstract pronouncements, they offer specific strategies, incl...
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    34,87 €

  • Arthur Talks
    Ruth Hobson
    Poetry about the homeless and how their lives evoke the legendary figure of King Arthur. Some poetry looks inwards and serves only its own ends, but the poems here serve the memory of the real people you sense behind the characters who populate it. They are portrayed with a remarkably precise eye and ear, and without any hint of sentimentality. These sharp, funny and touching p...
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    13,49 €

  • Oliver Twist
    Charles Dickens
    "Oliver Twist" was Charles Dickens' second novel, further establishing him as one of England's greatest writers of the 19th century.  Set in London in the midst of an industrial revolution, the novel treats issues such as child labor, poverty, and criminal greed.  Originally published in serial form and being titled "The Parish Boy's Progress," the book remains popu...
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    27,07 €

  • Holes in the Safety Net
    Ezra Rosser
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    132,67 €

  • Poverty and the Poor in the World’s Religious Traditions
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    107,64 €

  • Poor Representation
    Kristina C. Miler / Kristina CMiler
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    41,96 €

  • The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide
    Martha Smithey
    This book examines the social, economic and cultural conditions and stressors under which mothers commit infanticide, and shows how these conditions affect the ability to meet societal and self-perceived expectations of ’good’mothering. ...
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    151,56 €

  • Poor Representation
    Kristina C. Miler / Kristina CMiler
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    120,68 €

  • SDG1 - No Poverty
    Amanda Lange Salvia / Katarzyna Cichos
    This work provides a new look at global problems of poverty and presents applicable solutions to show that the global community can eliminate poverty today and achieve its global promise - Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1). ...
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    104,48 €

  • Walking By the Homeless
    Laura Sandretti
    How many times have you walked by a homeless person? Or read about someone hurting or in need and felt conflicted? How often have you spoken to a stranger more nicely than your husband? How often have you looked in the mirror and not liked the person looking back at you?Walking By the Homeless is a book about ordinary life intersecting with awareness. It is about one suburban w...
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    19,14 €

  • Garden of the Lost and Abandoned
    Jessica Yu
    The problem by most lights is overwhelming: at least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kalibbala--part journalist, part detective, part Good Samaritan--does not hesitate to dive into difficult or even dangerous situations to aid a child...
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    21,47 €

  • T.V. Reddy’s Fleeting Bubbles
    Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyay / Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyay / T. Vasudeva Reddy / TVasudeva Reddy / Vasudeva TReddy
    Prof. Ramesh, with his thorough knowledge of the Western and Indian poetics, as well as the culture of the land is the right person to explain and interpret the poems of T. Vasudeva Reddy’s Fleeting Bubbles. This collection of poems holds a mirror as it were to the existing social situations in India. Following an introduction, this book explores Fleeting Bubbles in six phases:...
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    19,45 €

  • Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals
    Given the compelling need to understand how entrepreneurship can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and be appropriately guided, this book explores how entrepreneurial thinking and action can support social change, and investigates alternative entrepreneurship approaches by drawing together different studies. ...
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    184,37 €


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