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The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics and Impoverished People in the United States

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The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics, and Impoverished People in the United States - Goode, Judith G (Editor), and Maskovsky, Jeff (Editor)
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Stock market euphoria and blind faith in the post cold war economy have driven the topic of poverty from popular and scholarly discussion in the United States. At the same time the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. The New Poverty Studies critically examines the new war against the poor that has accompanied the rise of the New Economy in the past two decades, and details the myriad ways poor people have struggled against it. The essays collected here explore how global, national, and local structures of ...

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The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics, and Impoverished People in the United States 2002, New York University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780814731161

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The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics and Impoverished People in the United States 2002, New York University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780814731154

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