Poverty : its root and its future / by Hyman Lumer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Little new world paperbacks ; LNW-2Publication details: New York : International Publishers , 1965.Description: 127 pages ; 18 cmOther title:
  • Poverty : its roots & its future [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.973
LOC classification:
  • HC106.5 .L849
Contents:
1. Rediscovery of poverty -- 2. Anatomy of poverty -- 3. Why people are poor -- 4. The nature and roots of poverty -- 5. Poverty of the Negro -- 6. Depressed areas -- 7. What kind of war on poverty? -- 8. A program of action -- 9. The 'triple revolution' -- 10. Toward abolition of poverty
Summary: "Poverty in the midst of affluence is a reality of American life.... Here the author seeks to define the underlying forces in the United States that determine the level of poverty today and the factors that end to increase it, such as automation and monopoly. He examines various proposals for its alleviation, like the manifesto on the 'Triple Revolution,' and makes some proposals of his own." -- From the back cover.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks HC 106.5 .L849 1965 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML19060013

"Books and pamphlets cited": pages 126-127.

1. Rediscovery of poverty -- 2. Anatomy of poverty -- 3. Why people are poor -- 4. The nature and roots of poverty -- 5. Poverty of the Negro -- 6. Depressed areas -- 7. What kind of war on poverty? -- 8. A program of action -- 9. The 'triple revolution' -- 10. Toward abolition of poverty

"Poverty in the midst of affluence is a reality of American life.... Here the author seeks to define the underlying forces in the United States that determine the level of poverty today and the factors that end to increase it, such as automation and monopoly. He examines various proposals for its alleviation, like the manifesto on the 'Triple Revolution,' and makes some proposals of his own." -- From the back cover.

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