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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,575 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,265 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 4.40 — 3,534 ratings — published 1995
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.85 — 725 ratings — published 1983
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.94 — 358 ratings — published 1989
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,127 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 — 196,343 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 — 7,246 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 4.44 — 47,502 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,260 ratings — published 2010
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.07 — 46,658 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 First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.49 — 22,218 ratings — published 2015
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,092 ratings — published 2013
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,393 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 — 9,556 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 — 838 ratings — published 2016
The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.72 — 39 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 3.76 — 141 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 — 10,017 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 — 40,217 ratings — published 1968
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,538 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 — 13,045 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 — 323 ratings — published 2022
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.69 — 13 ratings — published 2001
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.32 — 382 ratings — published 1899
Feminism’s Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.00 — 24 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 — 5,438 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
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 — 679 ratings — published
Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.81 — 633 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 4.17 — 216 ratings — published 2021
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,616 ratings — published 2013
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,944 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 — 38,977 ratings — published 2016
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,999 ratings — published 2018
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,215 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 — 13,915 ratings — published 2018
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,033 ratings — published 2017
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,397 ratings — published 2018
Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2013
Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 148 ratings — published 2013
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,694,027 ratings — published 1945
“International organizations have played a pivotal role is strategic implementation of social policy
measures which has led to strengthening the individual fabric of a given society of a single given
nation having a trampoline impact effecting the surrounding nations.
Much has been done in the past and much is still being done. The question remains would we
reach an ideal place of social perfection? That remains a question till this decade, and it seems
to me that it will always remain a question!”
― SOCIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT – A PRIMER:
measures which has led to strengthening the individual fabric of a given society of a single given
nation having a trampoline impact effecting the surrounding nations.
Much has been done in the past and much is still being done. The question remains would we
reach an ideal place of social perfection? That remains a question till this decade, and it seems
to me that it will always remain a question!”
― SOCIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT – A PRIMER:
“First of all, nobody gave us anything. It makes me furious when I hear that they gave us suffrage. Excuse me? It took 72 years of unrelenting, unbroken organizing grassroots effort to get women's suffrage. It took 113 years to get rid of child labor by law. It took similarly long periods of organized effort to accomplish any advance in social policy.”
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