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In their stirring analysis Pérez-Bustillo and Hernández Mares explore the evolving relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of human rights.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
"The Debt Project is a photo series of 99 portraits and handwritten stories of debt across the US"--
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This is a case study of how three developing countries, Brazil, Uganda and India, all developed broadly similar political devices to combat poverty. It argues that poverty reduction is politically feasible, even under the most daunting of circumstances.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates or through some other connection with the institution.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
A fascinating look at every aspect of life in Rotherham workhouse
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Life in a workhouse during the Victorian and Edwardian eras has been popularly characterised as a brutal existence. This book establishes a true picture of what life was like in a workhouse, of why inmates entered them and of what they had to endure in their day-to-day routine.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the U.S. remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many... Læs mere
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Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America’s urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings were not merely the... Læs mere
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In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black... Læs mere
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Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago’s Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a... Læs mere
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Humans are social animals and, in general, don't thrive in isolated environments. Homeless people, many of whom suffer from serious mental illnesses, often live... Læs mere
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Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America’s poor depends on what happens to them in the low-wage labor market.... Læs mere