Poverty

Books:

Abbott. The Tenements of Chicago (1936);

Addams. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1909);

Amin. Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment (1970);

Bauman. Globalisation: The Human Consequences (1998);

Beck. World at Risk (2009);

Bosanquet. Rich and Poor (1896);

     -     The Standard of Life and Other Studies (1898);

     -     The Poor Law Report of 1909 (1909);

Bourdieu. Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society (1999, in French 1993b);

     -     Counterfire: Against the Tyranny of the Market (2003, in French 1998b);

Breckinridge. Public Welfare Administration (1927); 

Du Bois. The Study of the Negro Problems (1898);

Ehrenreich. Nickel and Dimed (2001);

Engels. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1885, in German 1845a);

Fanon. Black Skin, White Masks (2008, in French 1952);

Gans. The War against the Poor (1995);

Lynd. Middletown in Transition (1937);

Marx. The Communist Manifesto (in German 1948); 

     -     Wage Labour and Capital (in German 1849);

     -     A Contribution to The Critique Of The Political Economy (in German 1859);

     -     Capital Vol. 1, 2, & 3: The Only Complete and Unabridged Edition in One Volume (2020, in German 1867, 1885, 1894);

Miliband. „Politics and Povery”, in Wedderburn (ed.) Poverty, Inequality and Class Structure (1974);

Myrdal G. Rich Lands and Poor (1957);

     -     Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations (1968);

Piven. Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (1971);

     -     Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail (1977);

     -     The New Class War (1982);

Rex. The Ghetto and the Underclass (1987);

Rostow. Why the Poor Get Richer and the Rich Slow Down: Essays in the Marshallian Long Period (1980);

Rowntree. Poverty, A Study of Town Life (1901);

     -     Unemployment: A Social Study (1911);

     -     How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem (1913);

     -     How far it is Possible to Provide Satisfactory Houses for the Working Classes at Rents Which They Can Afford to Pay (1914);

     -     Poverty and Progress (1941);

     -     Poverty and the Welfare State (1951);

Runciman. Relative Deprivation and Social Justice: A Study of Attitudes to Social Inequality in Twentieth-Century Britain (1966);

Saunders. Unequal But Fair?: A Study of Class Barriers in Britain (1996);

Shaw. Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas (1931);

Skocpol. The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy (2000);

Sorokin. The Crisis of Our Age (1941);

     -     Man and Society in Calamity: The Effects of War, Revolution, Famine, Pestilence Upon- Human Mind, Behavior, Social Organization and Cultural Life (1942);

Titmuss. Poverty and Population (1936);

     -     Birth, Poverty and Wealth (1943);  

     -     Problems of Social Policy (1950);

     -     Essays on The Welfare State (1958);

     -     Income Distribution and Social Change (1962);

Townsend. The Poor and the Poorest: A New Analysis of the Ministry of Labour's Family Expenditure Survey of 1953-54 and 1960 (1965);

     -     Poverty, Socialism, and Labour in Power (1967);

     -     The Concept of Poverty (1970);

     -     Poverty in the United Kingdom (1979);

     -     Poverty and Labour in London (1987);

     -     The International Analysis of Poverty (1993);

     -     Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain (2000);

     -     World Poverty: New Policies to Defeat an Old Enemy (2002);

     -     Child Poverty in the Developing World (2003);

Webb. The Break-Up of the Poor Law (1909);

     -     English Poor-Law Policy (1910);

     -     The Abolition of the Poor Law  (1918);

 Whyte. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum (1943);

Willis. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs  (1977); 

Wilson W. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner-City, The Underclass, and Public Policy (1987);

     -     More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (2009). 

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