Sociology Poverty

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    • Economic Possibilities for Our Time
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey Sachs
    • Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hilgartner
    • Durée: 13 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists....

    Prix courant: 27,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
    • Auteur(s): Tracy Kidder
    • Narrateur(s): Tracy Kidder
    • Durée: 8 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
    • Auteur(s): Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    • Narrateur(s): Roxana Ortega
    • Durée: 20 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….

    Prix courant: 50,94$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrateur(s): Josh Bloomberg
    • Durée: 13 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-12-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

    Prix courant: 22,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Field Notes, Book 6
    • Auteur(s): Deborah Dundas
    • Narrateur(s): Deborah Dundas
    • Série: Field Notes
    • Durée: 4 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn’t make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with the poor and those who are poor about what happens when we don’t talk about poverty or class—and what will happen when we do....

    Prix courant: 14,03$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
    • Auteur(s): Priya Fielding-Singh PhD
    • Narrateur(s): Priya Fielding-Singh PhD, York Whitaker
    • Durée: 11 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Packed with lyrical storytelling and groundbreaking research, as well as Fielding-Singh’s personal experiences with food as a biracial, South Asian American woman, How the Other Half Eats illuminates exactly how inequality starts on the dinner plate....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
    • Auteur(s): Annette Lareau
    • Narrateur(s): Xe Sands
    • Durée: 14 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-11-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

    Prix courant: 25,05$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
    • Auteur(s): Jennifer Toth
    • Narrateur(s): Tanya Eby
    • Durée: 7 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • Auteur(s): Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Lofbomm
    • Durée: 13 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • Auteur(s): Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
    • Durée: 6 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
    • Auteur(s): Annie Lowrey
    • Narrateur(s): Annie Lowrey
    • Durée: 7 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time....

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    • Auteur(s): Matthew O'Brien
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Carlson
    • Durée: 7 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton, Las Vegas CityLife writer-editor Matthew O'Brien explored the Las Vegas flood-control system for more than four years. This audiobook chronicles O'Brien's adventures in subterranean Vegas....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): George Orwell
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Keeble
    • Durée: 7 h
    • Date de publication: 2021-12-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Part social reportage, part socialist polemic, The Road to Wigan Pier sets out a hellish vision of a broken Britain before delivering a meditation on how we can create a more egalitarian society....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Die Geschichte meiner Familie und einer Gesellschaft in der Krise
    • Auteur(s): J. D. Vance
    • Narrateur(s): Dominic Kolb
    • Durée: 9 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-26
    • Langue: Allemand
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    • J. D. Vance erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie - eine Geschichte vom gescheiterten Aufstieg und von der Resignation einer ganzen Bevölkerungsschicht...

    Prix courant: 32,87$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Why Poverty Accompanies Economic and Technological Progress
    • Auteur(s): Henry George
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Lerman
    • Durée: 10 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This landmark treatise by the great economist Henry George was first published in 1879. George's work became the seminal analysis of the political economy which inspired most, if not all, the prominent thinkers of the Progressive Movement....

    Prix courant: 26,84$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Functions of Public Welfare
    • Auteur(s): Cloward Fox Piven
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 14 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Inner Life of the Middle Class
    • Auteur(s): Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrateur(s): Carmela Marner, Molly Parker Myers
    • Durée: 9 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the last two decades of the 20th century....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
    • Auteur(s): Richard D. Kahlenberg
    • Narrateur(s): Graham Winton
    • Durée: 9 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • An indictment of America's housing policy, Excluded reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Brenda Myers-Powell, April Reynolds - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 9 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • When Breezy, as she came to call herself, hit the streets of Chicago as a prostitute in 1973 she was barely a teenager. But she was pretty and funny as hell, and determined to support her daughters and make a living....

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    • How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
    • Auteur(s): Virginia Eubanks
    • Narrateur(s): Teri Schnaubelt
    • Durée: 7 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The audiobook is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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