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A people's history of poverty in America

Call Number

  • 362.5 P644 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.

Physical Description

xii, 322 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • Introduction : the indignant poor and the constants of relief
  • Survive : my brother's keeper
  • Sleep : a place to call home
  • Eat : dumpster diving
  • Work : (in)dependence
  • Love : women and children first
  • Respect : the price of relief
  • Escape : black and blue
  • Surrender : a culture of poverty?
  • Resist : bread or blood
  • Epilogue : poor math.

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