Sociology Poverty

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    • Strategies for Professionals and Communities
    • Auteur(s): Ruby K. Payne, Philip E. DeVol, Terie Dreussi-Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Begala
    • Durée: 7 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Bridges Out of Poverty champions alliances of support, and helps individuals and communities that are ready to break free of poverty. Rather than creating reliance, Bridges' communities create new skills, resources, and motivation. Embraced by tens of thousands of people....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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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    • 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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    • Auteur(s): Darren McGarvey
    • Narrateur(s): Darren McGarvey
    • Durée: 8 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Darren McGarvey has experienced poverty and its devastating effects firsthand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry and unheard. And he wants to explain....

    Prix courant: 15,41$ 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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): 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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    • 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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    • 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....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
    • Auteur(s): Anthony Biglan
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
    • Durée: 7 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-07-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book....

    Prix courant: 33,28$ 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....

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    • What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
    • Auteur(s): Emily Guendelsberger
    • Narrateur(s): Christine Lakin
    • Durée: 12 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
    • Auteur(s): Alissa Quart
    • Narrateur(s): Beth Hicks
    • Durée: 7 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
    • Auteur(s): John Hope Bryant
    • Narrateur(s): J. D. Jackson
    • Durée: 4 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-07-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America....

    Prix courant: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

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