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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,185 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,951 ratings — published 2023
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,582 ratings — published 1995
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.86 — 726 ratings — published 1983
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.94 — 365 ratings — published 1989
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,336 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.62 — 271,740 ratings — published 2014
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.79 — 107 ratings — published 1992
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 4 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,797 ratings — published 2001
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,307 ratings — published 2009
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,445 ratings — published 2017
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.07 — 47,280 ratings — published 2018
The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.94 — 16 ratings — published 1990
Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.49 — 22,483 ratings — published 2015
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,361 ratings — published 2013
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,419 ratings — published 2015
The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,719 ratings — published 2016
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 847 ratings — published 2016
The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.70 — 40 ratings — published 2001
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.75 — 142 ratings — published 1986
From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.69 — 319 ratings — published 1974
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,003 ratings — published 2004
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,051 ratings — published 2012
How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.77 — 13 ratings — published 2003
Dismantling the Welfare State?: Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Retrenchment (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.46 — 37 ratings — published 1994
Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.63 — 35 ratings — published 1992
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,938 ratings — published 1968
The American Way of Welfare: Providing for those who can't provide for themselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,581 ratings — published 2021
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,178 ratings — published 2018
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.65 — 333 ratings — published 2022
The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.12 — 58 ratings — published 2012
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published 2001
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.32 — 385 ratings — published 1899
Feminism’s Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.04 — 25 ratings — published
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,566 ratings — published 2018
Welfare for the Wealthy: Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the United States (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.43 — 7 ratings — published 2015
Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 191 ratings — published 2016
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.36 — 788 ratings — published 1983
The Limits of Social Policy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1988
Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 689 ratings — published
Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.82 — 634 ratings — published 2015
Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 220 ratings — published 2021
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,718 ratings — published 2013
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,183 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,306 ratings — published 2016
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,506 ratings — published 2020
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,047 ratings — published 2018
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.50 — 31,894 ratings — published 2003
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,224 ratings — published 2018
“All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.”
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“The challenges that the sphere of social work faces today is appropriate funding, channelization
of funds for suitable causes, dilution of the object of funding, harnessing appropriate technology
to aid in social work, total eradication of social evils –for example –poverty, dilution of social
ethics, deviation from devised goals, scarcity of resources etc”
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of funds for suitable causes, dilution of the object of funding, harnessing appropriate technology
to aid in social work, total eradication of social evils –for example –poverty, dilution of social
ethics, deviation from devised goals, scarcity of resources etc”
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