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Policing Not Protecting Families

"Policing Not Providing: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance critically analyzes how the U.S. child welfare system surveils and polices poor families, especially poor Black and Native fami…

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Elizabeth Clark Wessel
The Eighth House

'This is an extraordinary book. It moves in and around you like a ghost. I feel lucky to have experienced it' -- Daisy Johnson - author of Everything Under In the archives of the national library, a resea…

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Robert G Hasson
Unaccompanied Children in America

How many unaccompanied children enter US territory every year? What challenges, dangers, and risk factors are they most likely to face on their migration journeys?What immigration policies and laws determ…

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Matthew Greenslade
Beyond the World Bank

In this open access book, Matthew Greenslade sheds some much-needed light on the damage being done by the World Bank's insistence on pursuing a poverty-targeted approach to social protection in lower inco…

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Annie Lowrey
The Time Tax

A powerful investigation into how and why the government wastes our time with administrative burdens, how these burdens discriminate and drive inequality, and what we can do to protect our time---and make…

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Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Another World Is Possible

A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book Real-world solutions to America's thorniest social problems-from housing to retirement to drug addiction--based on original reporting from around the worldA new genera…

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Kevin Fagan
The Lost and the Found

A "riveting, deeply compassionate" (The New York Times) narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope .Award-winning San Francisco Chronicle journalist Kevin Fagan has been covering homelessness …

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Family and Disability Activism

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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Scott Fulford
The Pandemic Paradox

Why most Americans' finances improved during the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression-and the policy choices that made this possible In March 2020, economic and social life across the Un…

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Ewan Robertson
Making Work Pay in Mature Welfare States

Work and Welfare in Europe

This book provides a fresh narrative of policy reforms to support low-income workers in France and the United Kingdom in recent decades. It tackles the puzzle of why two institutionally-distinct welfare s…

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How to End Family Policing

From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them-and our communities-less safe.Based on decades of shared organizing, st…

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How to End Family Policing

From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them-and our communities-less safe.Based on decades of shared organizing, st…

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Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote Sanchez, Mattia Makovec
The Journey Ahead

This book seeks to enhance the understanding of migration in Europe and Central Asia, and to propose policy solutions tailored to the diversity of migration experiences and challenges in the region, to be…

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Christopher Bosso
Why Snap Works

"Why SNAP Works is a lively, up-to-the-minute account of the history of the program formerly known as food stamps, contested from its onset. Christopher Bosso's compelling explanation of the reasons …

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Stephen Starring Grant
Mailman

"Steve Grant was laid off in March of 2020. He was fifty and had cancer, so he needed health insurance, fast. Which is how he found himself a rural letter carrier in Appalachia, back in his old homet…

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Anna Di Lellio, Garentina Kraja
The Strongest Link

In The Strongest Link, Anna Di Lellio and Garentina Kraja present an oral history of women who survived weaponized rape during the Kosovo War. In their own voices, twenty women describe the war's terror, …

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Yuanyuan Qu
Becoming Digital Citizens

This book explores the relationship between disability, citizenship, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Chinese context. It offers new insights into the norms and practices of di…

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Doina Anca Cretu
Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania

"The decades following World War I were a period of political, social, and economic transformation for Central and Eastern Europe. This book considers the role of foreign aid in Romania between 1918 …

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Abolition and Social Work

"A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities. Within social work--a profession that ha…

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Stephen Starring Grant
Mailman

An uproarious and "utterly charming" (The Washington Post) memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who …

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