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 | @quot;We Live in the Shadow@quot;: Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories through Photographs ISBN: 9781439907917 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Inner cities -- United States; City children -- United States -- Social conditions; Urban poor -- United States -- Social conditions; Equality -- United States; Photography -- Social aspects -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Movement Without Marches ISBN: 9781469605883 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Urban policy; Poverty; African Americans; African American women; African American women; Poor women; African American women; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A People''s War on Poverty: Urban Politics, Grassroots Activists, and the Struggle for Democracy in Houston, 1964-1976 ISBN: 9780820346724 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Community Action Program (U.S.) -- History; Community development -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century; Poor -- Services for -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century; Poor -- Political activity -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th centur; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Way Out ISBN: 9781400825516 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Occupational mobility; Urban poor; Inner cities; Social problems; ■ Detailed Information | |
| A Way Out: America''s Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism ISBN: 9781400825516 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Social problems -- United States; Inner cities -- Government policy -- United States; Urban poor -- Government policy -- United States; Occupational mobility -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Access to Power ISBN: 9781400885978 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Poor; Rural-urban migration; Political participation; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations ISBN: 9781400885978 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Underdeveloped areas -- Political participation; Underdeveloped areas -- Politics and government; Underdeveloped areas -- Rural-urban migration; Poor; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | America the Beautiful and Violent: Black Youth and Neighborhood Trauma in Chicago ISBN: 9780231545471 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Youth and violence -- Illinois -- Chicago; African American youth -- Illinois -- Chicago; Urban poor -- Illinois -- Chicago; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Ballad of the Bullet ISBN: 9780691200088 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Urban poor; Technology and youth; Social media; Violence; Gangs; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy ISBN: 9780691200088 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Gangs -- Illinois -- Chicago; Violence -- Illinois -- Chicago; Social media -- Illinois -- Chicago; Technology and youth -- Social aspects; Urban poor -- Illinois -- Chicago; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Basic Needs and the Urban Poor: The Provision of Communal Services ISBN: 9781315164816 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Global Development; Social Sciences; Urban Studies; Urban Development; Urban Studies; Urban Cultures; Urban Policy; Sociology & Social Policy; Urban Sociology; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Beijing from Below ISBN: 9781478009184 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Duke University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Neighborhoods; Economic development; Urbanization; Marginality Social; Urban poor; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil ISBN: 9780816687978 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Women Black -- Political activity -- Brazil -- Salvador; Urban poor -- Political activity -- Brazil -- Salvador; Blacks -- Brazil -- Salvador -- Social conditions; Urban renewal -- Brazil -- Salvador; Salvador (Brazil) -- Politics and government; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Calcutta Poor: Inquiry into the Intractability of Poverty ISBN: 9781315479255 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Sociology; Social Inequality; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Children Of The Urban Poor: The Sociocultural Environment Of Growth, Development,And Malnutrition In Guatemala City ISBN: 9780429040887 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Social Sciences; Anthropology; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | China's Poor Regions: Rural-Urban Migration, Poverty, Economic Reform and Urbanisation ISBN: 9780203380833 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Area Studies; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Asian Studies; Economics; Chinese Studies; Development Economics; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Chinese Urban Poor Older People's Life : An Agentic Approach ISBN: 9783035103892 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Social Science; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India ISBN: 9780511557972 Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Cambridge University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Cities From Scratch ISBN: 9780822377498 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Duke University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Marginality Social; Urban poor; Slums; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor : Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World ISBN: 9780821389607 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / World Bank Publications Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Social Science; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Clothing, Society and Culture in Nineteenth-Century England, Volume 3 ISBN: 9781003102205 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Class and Work; Recreation and Consumption; Agencies and Institutions; Gender and Sexuality; Health and Welfare; Rural and Urban Life; Family and Demography; Crime and Punishment; Humanities; Social Groups; Clothing and Fashion; Education; Clubs; Shops and Shopping; Poverty; Local State; Religious Denominations; Philanthropy; Gender Roles and Stereotypes; Welfare; Morbidity and Disease; Types of Towns and Cities; Marriage; Family; Working Conditions; Medical Care; Punishments; The Home; History; Working Classes; Co-operation; Workhouses; Poor law; Femininity; Poor Relief; Ladies''s Clubs; Market and Fairs; Sunday Schools; Wages; Asylums; Apprenticeship and Training; Imprisonment; Domestic Management; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico ISBN: 9780292799981 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Texas Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Slums; Urban poor; Slums; Urban poor; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico: Urbanization by Stealth ISBN: 9780292799981 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Texas Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban poor -- Texas; Slums -- Texas; Urban poor -- Mexican-American Border Region; Slums -- Mexican-American Border Region; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Coming of Age in the Other America ISBN: 9781610448581 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban youth -- United States -- Social conditions; Poor youth -- United States -- Social conditions; Youth development -- United States; Education Urban -- United States; Inner cities -- United States; Social mobility -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Conjuring Crisis: Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military City ISBN: 9780813549798 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Racism -- North Carolina -- Fayetteville; Fayetteville (N.C.) -- Race relations -- Political aspects; Fayetteville (N.C.) -- Politics and government; Fayetteville (N.C.) -- Economic policy; Urban poor -- Government policy -- North Carolina -- Fayetteville; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Containment and Condemnation: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor ISBN: 9781609175887 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Michigan State University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States; Legal assistance to the poor -- United States; Urban poor -- Civil rights -- United States; Urban poor -- United States; Social legislation -- United States; Poverty -- Social aspects -- United State; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Coping With Poverty ISBN: 9780472023585 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Inner cities; African American families; Urban policy; African Americans; African Americans; Urban poor; African Americans; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Coping With Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community ISBN: 9780472023585 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Afro-Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975–; Urban poor -- United States; Afro-Americans -- Economic conditions; Afro-Americans -- Employment; Urban policy -- United States; Afro-American families -- Social conditions; Inner cities -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods ISBN: 9780520942455 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban poor -- United States -- Case studies; Inner cities -- United States -- Case studies; Urban poor -- Social networks -- New York (State) -- New York; Urban poor -- Social networks -- California -- Los Angeles; Social change -- United States -- New Yo; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Culture, Philanthropy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London ISBN: 9781315184999 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Humanities; Agencies and Institutions; States of Mind; Class and Work; Rural and Urban Life; Recreation and Consumption; History; Cultural Studies; Voluntary Societies; Philanthropy; Knowledge; Social Groups; The Urban Environment; Poverty; Rational Recreation; Clubs; Religious Denominations; Types of Towns and Cities; Education; Reading; Entertainment; Modern History 1750-1945; Urban History; Economic History; Social Activism; Settlements; Social Investigation; Working Classes; Welfare Societies; Slums; Workingmen''s Clubs; Church of England; London; Technical Education; Adult Education; Public Architecture; University; Concerts; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Demeaned but Empowered : The Social Power of the Urban Poor of Jamaica ISBN: 9789766401535 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of the West Indies Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Social Science; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan ISBN: 9780824874841 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban poor -- Japan -- History; Urban poor -- Japan -- Social conditions; Japan -- History -- Meiji period 1868-1912; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | East Asia and Pacific Cities : Expanding Opportunities for the Urban Poor ISBN: 9781464811036 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / World Bank Publications Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Social Science; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala ISBN: 9780203646359 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Anthropology; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Health & Medical Anthropology; Regional Anthropology; Cultural Studies; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | English Urban Life: 1776-1851 ISBN: 9780203716342 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Built Environment; Geography; Social Sciences; Rural and Urban Life; Health and Welfare; Class and Work; Agencies and Institutions; States of Mind; Recreation and Consumption; Family and Demography; Planning; Human Geography; Sociology & Social Policy; Types of Towns and Cities; The Urban Environment; Urbanisation; Morbidity and Disease; Medical Care; Social Groups; Working Conditions; Poverty; Local State; Education; Political Beliefs and Ideologies; Alcohol; Entertainment; Family; City and Urban Planning; Social Geography; Urban Sociology; Migration; Working Classes; Poor law; Radicalism; Pubs and Beerhouses; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s ISBN: 9781782046684 Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
| Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s ISBN: 9781782046684 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Film Studies ; Music; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Famine and Fashion: Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century ISBN: 9781315255446 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Class and Work; Recreation and Consumption; Family and Demography; Gender and Sexuality; Agencies and Institutions; Rural and Urban Life; Race and Empire; Arts; Humanities; Language & Literature; Social Groups; Clothing and Fashion; Family; Gender Roles and Stereotypes; Poverty; Marriage; Education; Working Conditions; Types of Towns and Cities; Slavery; Philanthropy; The British Diaspora; Local State; Art & Visual Culture; History; Literature; Middle Classes; Working Classes; Femininity; Wages; London; Emigration; Poor law; Upper Classes; Modern History 1750-1945; Social & Cultural History; Economic History; Modern Art; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Literature by Period; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Financial Access of the Urban Poor in India ISBN: 9788132237129 Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Springer India Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited Subjects: Economics and Finance; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | From Local Action to Global Networks: Housing the Urban Poor ISBN: 9781315583402 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Built Environment; Geography; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Planning; Property; Human Geography; Public Administration & Management; Sociology & Social Policy; Property and Real Estate Practice Management; Political Geography; Urban Geography; Development Geography; Public Policy; Urban Sociology; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | From Pauperism to Poverty ISBN: 9781315518619 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Class and Work; Agencies and Institutions; States of Mind; Family and Demography; Rural and Urban Life; Recreation and Consumption; Humanities; Poverty; Local State; Knowledge; Population; Types of Towns and Cities; Social Groups; Reading; Social Conventions and Orthodoxies; Political Beliefs and Ideologies; History; Poor law; Social Investigation; Workhouses; London; Working Classes; Unemployment; Liberalism; British History; Modern History 1750-1945; Social & Cultural History; Labor History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Gender in Urban Europe: Sites of Political Activity and Citizenship, 1750-1900 ISBN: 9780203709306 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Agencies and Institutions; Gender and Sexuality; Rural and Urban Life; States of Mind; Class and Work; Health and Welfare; Humanities; National State; Gender Roles and Stereotypes; Types of Towns and Cities; Philanthropy; Local State; The Rural Environment; Emotions; Concepts of Society; Sex; Economic Developments; Poverty; Welfare; Social Groups; History; Local government; Landscapes; Magistracy; Masculinity; Femininity; Desire; Industrialisation; Poor Relief; Poor law; Working Classes; European History; Modern History 1750-1945; Women''s & Gender History; Urban History; Social & Cultural History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Global Justice and Recognition Theory: Dignifying the World’s Poor ISBN: 9781003045038 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Global Development; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Politics & Development; Political Philosophy; Political Theory; Philosophy; Sociology; Continental Philosophy; Ethics Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Human Rights; Social Inequality; Social & Political Theory; 19th Century Philosophy; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Governance for Pro-Poor Urban Development: Lessons from Ghana ISBN: 9780203362723 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Built Environment; Global Development; Geography; Cities in the Global South; Development Policy; Urban Development; Economics and Development; Politics & Development; Population & Development; Sustainable Development; Planning; Regional Development; Human Geography; City and Urban Planning; Housing and Communities; Urban Design; Africa - Regional Development; Urban Geography; Development Geography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Guilty of Indigence ISBN: 9781400839988 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Poverty; Urban poor; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953 ISBN: 9781400839988 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban poor -- China -- History -- 20th century; Poverty -- China -- History -- 20th century; China -- Social conditions -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953 ISBN: 9781400839988 Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Asian History; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Hard Choices: Financial Exclusion, Fringe Banks and Poverty in Urban Canada ISBN: 9781442685291 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Discrimination in banking -- Canada; Urban poor -- Canada; Urban poor -- Canada -- Finance Personal; Banks and banking -- Canada; Poverty -- Canada; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Harvesters and Harvesting 1840-1900: A Study of the Rural Proletariat ISBN: 9781315180847 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Class and Work; Rural and Urban Life; Agencies and Institutions; Race and Empire; Humanities; Social Groups; Economic Developments; Working Conditions; The Rural Environment; Education; Urbanisation; The British Diaspora; Local State; Wealth and Inequality; History; Working Classes; Agricultural Revolution; Wages; Child labour; Migration; Emigration; Working Hours; Poor law; Paternalism; British History; Modern History 1750-1945; Social & Cultural History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Health Care Off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America ISBN: 9780520973602 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Medical care -- United States -- Case studies; Urban poor -- Medical care -- United States -- Case studies; ■ Detailed Information |