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• Working poor -- Government policy

• State Employment Policy in Hard Times (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1983), ed. by Michael Barker, contrib. by David M. Gordon and Roger J. Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• Ending Dependency: Lessons From Welfare Reform in the USA (c2001), by Douglas J. Besharov, Peter Germanis, Jay Hein, Donald K. Jonas, and Amy L. Sherman, contrib. by Alan Deacon (PDF at Civitas)

• Performance Standards for the Food Stamp Employment and Training Program (OTA-ITE-526; 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Welfare Reform in California: State and County Implementation of CalWORKs in the First Year, by Gail Zellman, Jacob Alex Klerman, Elaine Reardon, Donna Farley, Nicole Humphrey, Tammi Chun, and Paul Steinberg (PDF files at rand.org)
• Welfare Reform in California: Results of the 1998 All-County Implementation Survey, by Patricia A. Ebener and Jacob Alex Klerman (PDF files at rand.org)

• Rand Statewide CalWORKs Evaluation: An Overview, by Jacob A. Klerman, Elaine Reardon, and Paul S. Steinberg (PDF at rand.org)

• An End to Welfare Rights: The Rediscovery of Independence (c1999), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)

• High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist Analysis of the Changing Character of the Working Class (1986), by Sam Marcy (HTML at workers.org)
• Die Arbeiterfrage: Mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung der Sozialpsychologischen Seite des Modernen Grossbetriebes und der Psycho-Physischen Einwirkungen auf die Arbeiter (in German; Munich: E. Reinhardt, 1912), by Adolf Levenstein
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • reprint: page images in Germany
• Elements of the Labor Problem (1918), by Magnus W. Alexander (page images here at Penn)
• The Slavery of Our Times, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Aylmer Maude (HTML at cyberspacei.com)
• Two Memorials on Behalf of the Working Classes: The First Presented to the Governments of Europe and America, the Second to the Allied Powers Assembled in Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; et al., 1818), by Robert Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The A B C of Finance: or, The Money and Labor Questions Familiarly Explained to Common People, In Short and Easy Lessons, by Simon Newcomb
  • HTML at econlib.org
  • page images at MOA
• Miźh̀narodnyĭ Sot́s̀iíàlistychnyĭ i Robitnychyĭ Rukh (in Ukranian; Cleveland: Z Drukarni Robitnyka, 1917), by Zimmerwald Conference (1915), trans. by E. Kruk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Onward Sweep of the Machine Process (Chicago: I. W. W. Publishing Bureau, ca. 1917), by N. H. Hanson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Postulates of English Political Economy, by Walter Bagehot (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Right to Be Lazy, by Paul Lafargue, trans. by Charles H. Kerr (HTML at marxists.oef)
• The Wages Question: A Treatise on Wages and the Wages Class (London: Macmillan and Co., 1888), by Francis Amasa Walker (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Art of Handling Men (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1910), by James H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kapitalismus und Socialismus: mit Besonderer Rücksicht auf Geschäfts- und Vermögensformen (in German; Tübingen: H. Laupp, 1870), by A. Schäffle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Labor: Its History and Its Prospects (1848), by Robert Dale Owen, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• The Organization of Labor and Association (New York: W. H. Graham, 1847), by Math Briancourt, trans. by Francis George Shaw (multiple formats at Google)
• Resolutions of the Congress of Geneva, 1866, and the Congress of Brussels, 1868 (London: Printed by the Westminster Printing Co., ca. 1868), by International Workingmen's Association (1864-1876)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sabotage (Chicago: C. H. Kerr Co., c1913), by Emile Pouget, trans. by Arturo M. Giovannitti, contrib. by Charles H. Kerr
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters (Richmond, VA: A. Morris, 1857), by George Fitzhugh
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Le Sabotage (Bibliotheque du Mouvement Proletarian #13, in French; Paris: Librairie des Sciences Politiques et Sociales, M. Riviere et cie., ca. 1911), by Emile Pouget
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished, by Henry Charles Carey (Gutenberg text)

• Report of the Proceedings of the Congress of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, by Pan-American Federation of Labor (partial serial archives)

• The American Labor Who's Who (New York: Hanford Press, c1925), ed. by Solon De Leon, Irma C. Hayssen, and Grace Poole (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Awakening of China (Chicago: Daily Worker Pub. Co., c1926), by James H. Dolsen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Second Congress of the Labour and Socialist International, at Marseilles, 22nd to 27th August, 1925 (London: Labour Party, 1925), by Labour and Socialist International
  • first part: multiple formats at archive.org
  • statistics table from first part: page images at archive.org
  • second part: multiple formats at archive.org

• Beauty for Ashes (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1914), by Albion Fellows Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Recent Trends in American Housing (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, Their Arrangement and Construction (third edition; London: The Society For Improving The Condition Of The Labouring Classes, ca. 1853), by Henry Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing Famine, How to End It: A Triangular Debate, by John J. Murphy, Edith Elmer Wood, and Frederick Lee Ackerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Housing Problem in War and Peace (1918), by Charles Harris Whitaker, Frederick Lee Ackerman, Richard S. Childs, and Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sybaris and Other Homes, by Edward Everett Hale (page images at MOA)

• The Condition of the Working Class in England, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
• The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; With Appendix Written 1886, and Preface 1887 (New York: J. W. Lovell Co., c1887), by Friedrich Engels, trans. by Florence Kelley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England, by Arnold Toynbee (text at McMaster)

• Labour Conditions in Western Europe, 1820 to 1935 (New York: International Publishers, ca. 1936), by Jürgen Kuczynski (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• The Message of Internationalism (Amalgamated Education Pamphlet #8; New York: Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 1923), by Joseph Schlossberg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (1922 edition), by H. G. Wells
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel, by John Miller (PDF at University of Sydney)
• "Erb" (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1902), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Martin Eden, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Martin Eden: Romaani (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1920), by Jack London, trans. by Ville Hynynen (Gutenberg text)
• That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story (London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d.), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Chikago: Nykyajan Romaani ("The Jungle" in Finnish; Porvoo: WSOY, 1906), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by O. A. Joutsen (Gutenberg text)
• Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy (London: H. Jenkins Ltd., 1914), by Patrick MacGill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dear Faustina (London: R. Bentley and Son, 1897), by Rhoda Broughton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell (Gutenberg text)
• Raistas (The Jungle) (Lithuanian translation; Chicago: Spauda "Lietuvos", c1908), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by Jonas Naujokas
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Valley of the Moon, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Illustrations of Political Economy (third edition, 9 volumes; London: Charles Fox, 1832), by Harriet Martineau (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.