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• One Thousand Homeless Men: A Study of Original Records (New York: Survey Associates, 1914), by Alice Willard Solenberger (PDF files at Northwestern)

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)

• 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)

• Rural Development: Putting the Last First (London et al.: Longman, c1983), by Robert Chambers (PDF at Institute of Development Studies)

• The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World (1989), by Charles Correa (PDF files at Wayback Machine (only individual chapter files are downloadable))

• Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion: Making Technologies Work for the Poor (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Nir Kshetri (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Hunger and Public Action (originally published 1989; reprinted Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002), by Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Access: How Do Good Health Technologies Get to Poor People in Poor Countries? (c2008), by Laura J. Frost and Michael Reich (PDF files with commentary at accessbook.org)

• 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)

• Blight, the Tragedy of Dublin: An Exposition in 3 Acts (by "Alpha and Omega", attributed to Gogarty with contributions by O'Connor; Dublin: Talbot Press, 1917), by Oliver St. John Gogarty, contrib. by Joseph O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• London Shadows: A Glance at the "Homes" of the Thousands (London: George Routledge and Co., 1854), by George Godwin (illustrated HTML and victorianlondon.org)

• Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Homa Hoodfar (HTML at UC Press)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

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