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  • Why Fight Poverty?

    af Julia Unwin ...
    Serier serie Perspectives
    Poverty, and calls to end it, date back centuries. Even in prosperous modern times, despite the huge transformation of society, poverty has persisted. This book looks back at the struggle to end poverty and asks if it is worth it. ... Læs mere

    89,61 kr.

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  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Læs mere

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  • Nickel and Dimed

    On (Not) Getting By in America

    The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedMillions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can ... Læs mere

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  • Rabbit

    A Memoir

    Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work"An absolute must-read" – Shondaland“[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor” – New York TimesThey called her Rabbit.Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) was born and raised in Atlanta at the height of the crack epidemic. One of five children, Pat watched as her mother struggled to get by on... ... Læs mere

    149,35 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Occupy

    af Noam Chomsky ...
    Occupy gives Noam Chomsky's thoughts on a movement which swept the world'Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war.'Since its appearance in Zuccotti Park, New York, in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns and cities across the world. No longer occupying small tent camps, the movement now occupies the global conscience as its messages ... Læs mere

    42,83 kr.

  • Another Day in the Death of America

    A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

    af Gary Younge ...
    Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism****Longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non FictionOn an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary ... Læs mere

    65,48 kr.

  • Under the Affluence

    Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America

    af Tim Wise ...
    Serier serie City Lights Open Media
    "Tim Wise is one of the great public moralists in America today. In his bracing new book, Under the Affluence, he brilliantly engages the roots and ramifications of radical inequality in our nation, carefully detailing the heartless war against the poor and the swooning addiction to the rich that exposes the moral sickness at the heart of our culture. Wise's stirring analysis of our predicament is ... Læs mere

    102,61 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Broken Ladder

    How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die

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    A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality.Today’s inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. In The Broken Ladder psychologist Keith Payne examines how inequality divides us not just economically, but has ... Læs mere

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  • Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: the best of Joe Bageant

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    af Joe Bageant ...
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  • Inequality and the 1%

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    Since the Great Recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity.But inequality is more than just economics. Being born outside the 1% has a dramatic impact on a ... Læs mere

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  • Selling Diversity

    Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity, and Globalization

    Since the 1990s, Canadian policy prescriptions for immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity have equated globalization with global markets. This interpretation has transformed men and women of various ethnic backgrounds into trade-enhancing commodities who must justify their skills and talents in the language of business. This particular neo-liberal reading of globalization and public ... Læs mere

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  • The Hidden Cost of Being African American

    How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality

    Thomas Shapiro reveals how the lack of family assets--inheritance, home equity, stocks, bonds, savings accounts, and other investments-- along with continuing racial discrimination in crucial areas like homeownership dramatically impact the everyday lives of many black families, reversing gains earned in schools and on jobs, and perpetuating the cycle of poverty in which far too many find ... Læs mere

    125,69 kr.