Sociology Poverty

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. In Poverty, by America, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond examines the nature of American poverty today and the stories we tell ourselves about it....

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    • The Economic Classic with a New Foreword
    • By: Henry George, Ayrton Parham - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eli Snuggs
    • Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Capitalism has blessed the world with wealth and technological miracles. It has also cursed it with urban slums, powerless workers, and the vicious boom-and-bust economy. If only there were some way to fix the problems of capitalism and keep all its benefits....

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    • By: Darren McGarvey
    • Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2018
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • By: David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-2020
    • Language: English
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    • The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....

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    • Why Poverty Accompanies Economic and Technological Progress
    • By: Henry George
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-2022
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • Living on Almost Nothing in America
    • By: Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • By: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-2020
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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....

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    • Die Geschichte meiner Familie und einer Gesellschaft in der Krise
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: Dominic Kolb
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-2020
    • Language: German
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    • J. D. Vance erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie - eine Geschichte vom gescheiterten Aufstieg und von der Resignation einer ganzen Bevölkerungsschicht...

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    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago....

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    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • By: Katherine Boo
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope....

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    • Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City
    • By: Andrea Elliott
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter....

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    • By: Henry George
    • Narrated by: Jason Smith
    • Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Progress and Poverty by Henry George explores the paradox of increasing inequality in periods of economic growth. George proposes that land...

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    • How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
    • By: Darren McGarvey
    • Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most....

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    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • By: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-2023
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
    • By: Annette Lareau
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-2011
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

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    • Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Rory Hearne
    • Narrated by: Rory Hearne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-2022
    • Language: English
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    • The book that has been waiting to be written—how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it.....

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    • How We Let Grenfell Happen
    • By: Peter Apps
    • Narrated by: Colin Mace
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 19-01-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames. The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to ‘stay put'. Many did–and died....

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    • The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
    • By: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD
    • Narrated by: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD, York Whitaker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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....

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    • What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
    • By: Emily Guendelsberger
    • Narrated by: Christine Lakin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
    • By: Jennifer Toth
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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....

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