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• 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)
• 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)

• The Antiquary, by Walter Scott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane (Gutenberg text)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Hegan Rice (Gutenberg text)
• Jill the Reckless, by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text)
• The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Eustace Diamonds (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by George Willis Bardwell (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• The Time of Man: A Novel (New York: Viking Press, 1926), by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)

• Yeast: A Problem, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)

• Let Me Breathe Thunder (New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1939), by William Attaway (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Hegan Rice (Gutenberg text)

• The Miracle Man (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by Frank L. Packard
  • with illustrations from the photoplay; multiple formats at archive.org
  • without illustrations;Gutenberg text

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

• The Battle with the Slum, by Jacob A. Riis (illustrated HTML at Bartleby)
• 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)

• 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)

• Poverty and Charity in Aix-en-Provence, 1640-1789 (originally published 1976; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Cissie C. Fairchilds (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical (3 volumes from various editions printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4 volumes; Boston: Estes and Lauriat, ca. 1870-1875), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.