You will have a brutal uncomfortable time reading the sample from Amazon.com.
I bought David Shipler´s The Working Poor in 2007 and reached page 25. I could go no further.
At one time, slavery, torture, wife beating, debt prisons, child abuse and animal cruelty were standard operating procedure. They are now illegal everywhere. I hope that the rich countries would start a Second Marshall Plan to abolish poverty everywhere.
The US has more prisoners in absolute numbers and per capita in the world. Americans pay about twice as much as people in the European Union. Bankruptcy for medical expenses is virtually unknown in the European Union.
There will be many benefits to abolishing poverty. People will not cross the Chihuahua Desert or the Mediterranean looking for low-wage work. Terrorists will no longer exist when people have good jobs at home.
Sincerely,
Ed