Poverty & Unemployment

Terrorism, a widespread global phenomenon, manifests itself in the actions and the policies of individuals and groups, but also and primarily in th...

Poverty, in its universality, seems immediately understandable and yet, as a global problem, its dissolution remains highly complex.To illustrate w...

Criticized as parsimonious and cruel in the later 1800s, the Poor Law for Scotland was first passed in 1845 as a frankly humanitarian measure in re...

Consumerism, unsustainable growth, waste and inequalities continue to ail societies across the globe, but creative collectives have been tackling t...

From populations to pandemics, official statistics are indispensable to thinking about modern society. Alex Fenton sets out a sociological approach...

In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicagos iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-de...

In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicagos iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-de...

Text in Arabic. Drawing on 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, authors Banerjee and Duflo have identified new aspects of ...

This book analyses the processes, mutations and trends currently characterising the world of work that are bound up within the deep contradictions ...

Behind from the Start examines the link between America's shaming, blaming, and marginalizing of poor parents, and American policies that jeopardiz...

For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches Well-known through hit movies li...

Cities are seen as essentially good: innovative, pro-growth, poverty-reducing. In a challenging corrective to this common portrayal, Christof Parnr...

Cities are seen as essentially good: innovative, pro-growth, poverty-reducing. In a challenging corrective to this common portrayal, Christof Parnr...