Urban poor
Here are entered general works on the urban poor and, with local subdivision, works limited to the urban poor of regions, countries, states, etc. Works on the poor of individual cities, city regions or metropolitan areas are entered under the heading Poor with local subdivision.
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The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World (1989), by Charles Correa (PDF files at Wayback Machine (only individual chapter files are downloadable))
- The Other Empire: Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by John Marriott (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Hegan Rice (Gutenberg text)
- Inner-City Poverty in the United States, ed. by Laurence E. Lynn and Michael McGeary (page images with commentary at NAP)
- The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Daniel Bivona and Roger B. Henkle (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Other Empire: Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by John Marriott (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
- Urban Poverty, Political Participation, and the State: Lima, 1970-1990 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), by Henry A. Dietz (page images at Pitt)
- Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968), by United States National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, contrib. by Otto Kerner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Inner-City Poverty in the United States, ed. by Laurence E. Lynn and Michael McGeary (page images with commentary at NAP)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Poor- The Battle with the Slum (New York and London: Macmillan, 1902), by Jacob A. Riis
- Misery and Its Causes (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edward T. Devine (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Letters to a Clergyman, on Institutions for Ameliorating the Condition of the People, Chiefly from Paris in the Autumn of 1845 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1846), by John Minter Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Spiral Down to Poverty: Rural Communities in Crisis (ACSJC occasional paper #15; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1993), by Noela Lippert (PDF in Australia)
- Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by David Nemer (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
- Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by David Nemer (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
- Poverty in Canada (second edition, 1996), by Christopher A. Sarlo (HTML at Fraser Institute)
- Poverty in Canada (second edition, 1996), by Christopher A. Sarlo (HTML at Fraser Institute)
- A Chinese Beggars' Den: Poverty and Mobility in an Underclass Community (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1988), by David C. Schak (page images at Pitt)
- A Chinese Beggars' Den: Poverty and Mobility in an Underclass Community (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1988), by David C. Schak (page images at Pitt)
- Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations (Washington: National Academies Press, c2011), by Committee on Oral Health Access to Services (U.S.) (HTML with commentary at NAP)
- Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations (Washington: National Academies Press, c2011), by Committee on Oral Health Access to Services (U.S.) (HTML with commentary at NAP)
- The Plutus of Aristophanes, Translated into English Verse, With an Introduction and Notes (London: J. Murray, 1912), by Aristophanes, ed. by William Rann Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1912), by Booker T. Washington and Robert Ezra Park (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Outcast: or, Virtue and Faith (New York: M. Doolady, 1861), by F. Colburn Adams (Gutenberg text)
- A Son of the State (London: Methuen and Co., 1902), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text)
- The Reigning Belle: A Society Novel (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1885), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text)
- Aunt Sara's Wooden God (College Park, MD: McGrath Pub. Co, c1938), by Mercedes Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
- Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy (London: H. Jenkins Ltd., 1914), by Patrick MacGill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Underclass + 10: Charles Murray and the British Underclass, 1990-2000 (c2001), by Charles A. Murray, contrib. by Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
- Charles Murray and the Underclass: The Developing Debate (c1996), ed. by Ruth Lister, contrib. by Charles A. Murray (PDF at Civitas)
- The Canker at the Heart: Being Studies From the Life of the Poor in the Year of Grace 1905 (London: E. Grant Richards, 1905), by L. Cope Cornford
- Giving Alms No Charity, by Daniel Defoe (text at McMaster)
- Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Industrial Condition of the Poor (sixth edition, 1906), by J. A. Hobson (Gutenberg text)
- In Darkest England, and The Way Out (London: International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, ca. 1890), by William Booth (multiple formats at archive.org)
- In Darkest England, and The Way Out, by William Booth (Gutenberg text)
- A Letter Addressed to Samuel Whitbread, Esq., M.P., in Consequence of the Unqualified Approbation Expressed by Him in the House of Commons, of Mr. Lancaster's System of Education (London: Printed for J. Hatchard et al., 1807), by John Bowles
- Mildmay: or, The Story of the First Deaconess Institution (second edition; London: E. Stock, 1893), by Harriette J. Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Cause of the Greeks: A Discourse, Delivered in St. Paul's Church, on the Evening of February 26, 1827, at the Request of the Committee for the Relief of the Greeks (Philadelphia: W. Stavely, 1827), by Gregory T. Bedell
- City Sparrows, and Who Fed Them (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1876), by Ruth Lynn
- In Wild Rose Time (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1894), by Amanda M. Douglas, illust. by John Goss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man, by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)
- Taking a Stand on Poverty (c1991), by Helen P. Rogers (Javascript-dependent HTML at Scribd)
- Bringing In the Sheaves: Transforming Poverty Into Productivity (Atlanta: American Vision Press, c1985), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
- Horace, Priest of the Poor (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1985), by John S. Monagan (PDF at Georgetown)
- Appeal to the Wealthy of the Land, Ladies as Well as Gentlemen, on the Character, Conduct, Situation, and Prospects of Those Whose Sole Dependence for Subsistence Is on the Labour of Their Hands (third edition, 1833), by Mathew Carey (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
- Beggars (London: Duckworth and Co., 1909), by W. H. Davies (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Daniel Bivona and Roger B. Henkle (PDF at Ohio State)
- Why Abortion? The Myth of Choice for Women Who are Poor, by Anne Nicol Gaylor (HTML with commentary at ffrf.org)
- Papers On Out-Door Relief and Tramps, by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)
- Beggars (London: Duckworth and Co., 1909), by W. H. Davies (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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