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Ain't No Makin It: Aspirations & Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
by Jay Macleod  Publisher Comments With the original 1987 publication of Ain't No Makin' It Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the "Brothers" and "Hallway Hangers." Their story of poverty, race, and defeatism moved readers and challenged ethnic...
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Planet of Slums
by Mike Davis 
Publisher Comments According To The United Nations, More Than One billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the...
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Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization
by Jean Bertr Aristide
Publisher Comments In this startling and passionate book, Aristide demonstrates why those on the bottom will never lie down. A graphic revelation of what happens when "free" trade overruns local markets, eradicates local economies, and creates dependence on foreign charity....
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American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
by Jason Deparle Publisher Comments In this definitive work, two-time Pulitzer finalist Jason DeParle cuts between the mean streets of Milwaukee and the corridors of Washington to produce a masterpiece of literary journalism. At the heart of the story are three cousins whose different...
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Off the Books : Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (06 Edition)
by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh Publisher Comments appalling isolation from the rest of the country....
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Promises Not Kept Poverty & the Betray
by John Isbister Publisher Comments A superb overview of third world development . . Challenges people in developed nations to accept their share of responsibility for Third World stagnation. . .Highly recommended for general as well as academic readers. --CHOICE Magazine Offers...
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Poverty in America a Handbook 2ND Edition
by John Iceland Publisher Comments "Praise for the first edition: <BR>"Highly readable. Will very likely become a standard reference for students of poverty."--William Julius Wilson, author of "When Work Disappears<BR>"With succinct and engaging prose, Poverty in America...
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Respect in a World of Inequality: The Formation of Character in a World of Inequality
by Richard Sennett Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278) and index....
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Paths to Homelessness: Extreme Poverty and the Urban Housing Crisis
by Doug A Timmer Publisher Comments This book is the first to combine a cogent explanation of the economic and historical causes of homelessness with accounts of individuals and families on the streets, in soup lines, and in shelters. The human side of the story, told from ethnographies...
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Lost Ground : Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond (02 Edition)
by Randy Albelda Publisher Comments In the mid-1980s, the popularity of Charles Murray's anti-welfare treatise "Losing Ground" signaled the rising influence of the right-wing critique of welfare. In "Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty and Beyond," a respected array of social scientists...
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Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women
by Elliot Liebow Publisher Comments he observes them, creating portraits that are intimate and objective, while breaking down stereotypes and dehumanizing labels often used to describe the homeless. Liebow writes about their daily habits, constant struggles, their humor, compassion and...
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Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity
by Susan Starr Sered Publisher Comments The authors paint a devastating portrait of the decline of health care in thecountry, told through the stories of various people's lives....
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Crossing the Border : Encounters Between Homeless People and Outreach Workers (99 Edition)
by Michael Rowe Publisher Comments This ethnography of the relationship between the homeless and outreach workers paints a rich picture of not only the homeless themselves, but how members of this marginalized group interact with the social service community....
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King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side (Institutional Structures of Feeling)
by Jag Wojcicka Sharff Publisher Comments This book chronicles an ethnographic team's involvement over a span of fifteen years with the people of a poor, largely Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York City. Jagna Sharff focuses on a group of families who live within a radius of a few blocks of...
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Keeping Women and Children Last Revised
by Ruth Sidel Publisher Comments A renowned sociologist revists the explosive issue of women, children, and poverty in this hard-hitting sequel to her searing expose. Sidel explores the condition of America's poor women today, with particular focus on the federal government's attempts...
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Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform
by Alejandr Marchevsky Publisher Comments Not Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it. Through vivid story-telling and pointed analysis, the book profiles the day-to-day struggles of Mexican immigrant women in the Los...
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Riches for Poor (00 Edition)
by Earl Shorris Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking work, Shorris examines the nature of poverty in America today--addressing such issues as why people are poor and why they stay poor--and offers a unique solution to the problem. Print features....
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Twenty Years at Hull-House (Signet Classics)
by Jane Addams Publisher Comments This is Jane Addams's graphic account of her famed settlement house in Chicago's West Side slums. Covering the years 1889 to 1909, a time when America was fired with fear of subversives and suspicion of foreigners, this book stands as the immortal...
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Where We Stand: Class Matters
by bell hooks Publisher Comments "Where We Stand" is a powerful new book by one of America's most admired critics and writers. For years we have turned to bell hooks-feminist, social thinker, memoirist, teacher-for her deeply felt ideas on women, race, culture, sexuality, and more...
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Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community
by David Wagner Publisher Comments During the past decade, homelessness became a widespread phenomenon in the United States for the first time since the Great Depression. The public frequently blamed the poor for their plight. Journalistic and academic accounts, in contrast, often evoked...
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