Poverty & Unemployment

Money was already tight for UK families living on a low income before the COVID-19 pandemic, but national lockdowns made life much harder. Telling...

Against the Odds is a Machiavellian study of the machinations of three senior politicians in quite different developing countries who adroitly play...

Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that can be solved thr...

In this hard-hitting polemical Karnani demonstrates what is wrong with today's approaches to reducing poverty. He proposes an eclectic approach to ...

US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the defining issue of our time. It has inspired the Occupy movements, made a French econom...

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Experts review leading social policy scholarship from across the globe in this new volume...

Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has slowed significantly since its impressive momentum of the early 2000s. This report draws on the latest po...

This book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023. It explain...

Betrayed takes a new approach to the subject of global poverty, one that doesn't blame the West but also doesn't rely on the West for solutions. Be...

This volume discusses the current state of knowledge on the conceptual understanding of inequality. The book poses a range of empirical puzzles in ...

This book examines why democracy has failed to deliver effective solutions to income inequality problems over the last four decades, and if democra...

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru...

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru...

The Argentine capital is largely perceived as a middle-class space. Yet in reality, urban poverty and precarious settlements are defining features ...

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Political Book of the Year'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Tim...

The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil examines the interrelationships among peasant mobilization, agrarian reform and cooperativism in contempo...

In Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City , Nunez and Sribnick explore the world of New York's poor children and families, from the era o...

THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF QUIZZING SENSATION JAY FLYNN: NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER! Readers have been LOVING The Quizmaster:'I read t...

In the 1880s, social reform leaders warned that the unworthy poor were taking charitable relief intended for the truly deserving. Armed with statis...

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c....