This new edition of Patterson's widely used book carries the story of battles over poverty and social welfare through what the author calls the "amazing 1990s,"

Alice O'Connor here chronicles the transformation in the study of poverty from a reform-minded inquiry into the political economy of industrial capitalism to th

Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger follows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out

THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION.

Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.