Poverty & Unemployment

Millions have entered poverty as a result of the Great Recession's terrible toll of long-term unemployment. Kristin S. Seefeldt and John D. Graham ...

In the 1960s, America set out to end poverty. Policy-makers put forth an unprecedented package of legislation, funding poverty programs and empower...

The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this globa...

Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year. Malcolm X (a former auto worker) Written in a lively, accessible fashion and draw...

Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars for a new ageA long time ago, in a galaxy far, far awayway back in the twenty-...

Produced between 1850 and 1862, London Labour and the London Poor is one of the most significant examples of nineteenth century oral history. The c...

Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often invo...

How low-income people cope with the emotional dimensions of poverty Could a lack of close, meaningful social ties be a publicrather than just a pr...

South Africa has one of the highest rates of youth unemployment and is renowned for being one of the most unequal societies in the world. In this c...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

A legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courtsAn urgently needed analysis of o...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The drug war that has turned Juárez, Mexico, into a killing field that has claimed more than 7,000 lives since 2008 captures headlines almost daily...

Mohand-Said Ait-Taleb is an enigma. Living in France but ravaged by memories of the war in Algeria, he has withdrawn into his own world, away from ...

Hurricane Katrina inflicted damage on a scale unprecedented in American history, nearly destroying a major city and killing thousands of its citize...

The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century - why should the wealthiest country in the world als...

Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this Wolfson History Prize-shortlisted portrait by a rising-star historian and New Generatio...

The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the better known and most successful of the New Deal programs following the Great Depression. The causes...

In Rethinking Education and Poverty, William G Tierney brings together scholars from around the world to examine the complex relationship between p...

In Rethinking Education and Poverty, William G Tierney brings together scholars from around the world to examine the complex relationship between p...