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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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Poor Work: Disadvantages & the Division of Labor
by Phillip Brown Book News Annotation Drawing on data from Great Britain, but applicable to industrial society as a whole, examines changes in the labor market that are creating a substratum of very-low-paid workers, many of them unskilled, black, female, or disabled. Distributed in the...
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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
by Jay Macleod Publisher Comments “I ain’t goin’ to college. Who wants to go to college? I’d just end up gettin’ a shitty job anyway.” So said Freddie Piniella, an eleven-year-old boy from Clarendon Heights low-income housing project, to Jay MacLeod...
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Poor Support PB
by David T Ellwood Publisher Comments The subject of a New York Times Magazine cover story of December 8, 1996, David Ellwood is one of the country’s leading experts on poverty. In this book he describes who the poor are, explains why they are poor, and suggests new policies for...
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Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do about It
by Star Parker Publisher Comments America has two economic systems: capitalism for the rich and socialism for the poor. This double-minded approach seems to keep the poor enslaved to poverty while the rich get richer. Let's face it, despite its $400 billion price tag, welfare isn't...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich 
Publisher Comments Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...
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When Welfare Disappears: The Case for Economic Human Rights
by Ken Neubeck Publisher Comments This groundbreaking new book offers a history of welfare, an accurate portrayal of welfare recipients and an understanding of the diverse characteristics of lone-mother-headed families affected by welfare reform. Through detailed research, award-winning...
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Social Welfare in America: An Annotated Bibliography
by Walter I Trattner Review Social Welfare in America is comprehensive; it will be particularly useful in public and academic libraries supporting social service and American history programs.Reference Books...
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Poverty and the Underclass: Changing Perceptions of the Poor in America
by William Alton Kelso Publisher Comments An excellent introduction to the debate about poverty in America. He emphasizes how little we still know about this critical problem. Poverty in the land of plenty remains a mystery." —Lawrence M. Mead, author of The New Politics of Poverty A...
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Getting by on the Minimum: The Lives of Working Class Women
by Jennifer Johnson Publisher Comments Jennifer Johnson profiles the real-life stories of more than sixty women who have no college education, are married with kids, and earn an average of $16,000 per year, giving us an important window into a large, poorly understood segment of our society...
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Ending Poverty (Prospects for Tomorrow)
by Robin Marris Publisher Comments A provocative analysis, this book looks at the economic forces as well as the political and social factors in the world's gross imbalance of wealth. The economist Robin Marris argues that in the 21st century we can and must end poverty. Taking into...
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When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor
by William Juli Wilson Publisher Comments Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the...
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Owning Up: Poverty, Assets, and the American Dream
by Michel Miller Adams Publisher Comments This text is about assets and the difference they can make in the lives of the poor. It expands the concept of asset building to encompass a range of skills and support systems that are necessary to lift people out of poverty. It identifies four types of...
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Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America
by Michelle Kennedy Publisher Comments The shocking story of a suburban mother's plunge into homelessness Michelle Kennedy had a typical middle class American childhood in Vermont. She attended college, interned in the U.S. Senate, married her high school sweetheart and settled in the suburbs...
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Welfare & Work Experiences in Six Cities
by Christopher T King Book News Annotation This volume summarizes data from six large urban areas to identify changes in welfare participation and labor market involvement of female welfare recipients from the early 1990s through 1999. King and Mueser (Upjohn Institute for Employment Research)...
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Making Aid Work (07 Edition)
by Banerjee Publisher Comments With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global poverty is our greatest moral challenge. The large and...
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Undeserving Poor
by Michael Katz Publisher Comments For the first time in over twenty-five years. the issue of poverty -- and our failure to deal with it -- is back at the top of the policy agenda and on the front page of the news. In this magisterial overview social historian Michael B. Katz, examines...
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The "Underclass" Debate: Views from History
by Michael Katz Publisher Comments Do ominous reports of an emerging "underclass" reveal an unprecedented crisis in American society? Or are social commentators simply rediscovering the tragedy of recurring urban poverty, as they seem to do every few decades? Although social scientists...
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Economies of Exclusion: Underclass Poverty and Labor Market Change in Mexico
by Scott Sernau Publisher Comments Rapid economic changes throughout the world economy offer new possibilities for economic development. Yet the multitude of people in an impoverished underclass often find the burst of economic development in their country continues to exclude them. As...
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