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Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America. The Hero's Fight provides an intimate look at the effects of deindustrialization on the lives of Baltimore's urban poor, and sheds critical light on the unintend

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Poverty Wars argues that as a nation Australia can afford to eliminate financial poverty. It states that the fact they don't do so is a matter of choice, not affordability - as the experience of other countries demonstrates.

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The 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic in the UK had a devastating and long-lasting impact on individuals and communities. Although many studies about FMD have been published since 2001, this is the first book to examine in any detail the ways in which the outbreak affected the fabric of rural life and rural culture across class and generations.

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Examines the human costs of unemployment and poverty through a study of the health of the population of south Wales. This book contributes to the 'healthy or hungry thirties' debate about the effects of unemployment and poverty on health in interwar Britain through an examination of south Wales.

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In the wake of the French Revolution there was a fundamental shift in attitudes to poverty. Writers like Tom Paine suggested that poverty could be alleviated or even eliminated. Such thinking was robustly countered by Christian evangelicals. But the arguments surfaced again in the late-nineteenth century.

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The misery of the 312 million people who live below the poverty line in India is often overlooked. This book shows how they manage, what sustains them and the efforts made to help them. Although it pays attention to individual districts, the issues the book raises are universal in their relevance.

The first interdisciplinary reference to cover the socioeconomic and political history, the movements, and the changing face of poverty in the United States.

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