Poverty & Unemployment

A century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368 million children receive school lunches in 151 countries, in programs suppo...

A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanitiesIn recent years, the digital humanitie...

The last few decades have seen an increase in the migration of ageing people from richer Northern and Western countries to poorer Southern and East...

Becoming Transnational Youth Workers contests mainstream notions of adolescence with its study of a previously under-documented cross-section of Me...

An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led ...

A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanitiesIn recent years, the digital humanitie...

The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does su...

What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turk...

Revelatory, lyrical and immersive, this is an extraordinary book that takes you deep into these ordinary women's worlds... Their stories are urgent...

This influential book describes the knowledge and skills teachers and school administrators need to recognize and combat bias and inequity that und...

This publication makes available to historians and general readers a little-known document mapping the achievement of a crucial initiative in the p...

Kensington and Chelsea - one of the wealthiest spots on planet Earth - is also one of the most unequal. A short walk from Harrods, families cannot ...

Surviving Poverty carefully examines the experiences of people living below the poverty level, looking in particular at the tension between social ...

The growth of the economy and the spread of prosperity are increasingly seen as problematic rather than positive - a trend Daniel Ben-Ami has terme...

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment   Over the past two decades...

When most Americans think of poverty, they imagine Black faces. As a teenager, Reverend William J Barber II recalls seeing Black mothers interviewe...

While the United States continues to recover from the 2008 Great Recession, the country still faces unprecedented inequality as increasing numbers ...

The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Res...

'Lucid, calm and compelling Olivier De Schutter tackles the big questions' Kate Pickett, co-author, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for E...

On the Ragged Edge of Medicine offers a glimpse into a medical practice for the homeless and urban poor. Told through fifteen patient vignettes, an...

Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to ...

This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developi...