Poverty & Unemployment

This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the ...

Is food aid the way of the future? What are the prospects for integrated public policies informed by the right to food? First World Hunger Revisite...

The New Southern European Diaspora: Youth, Unemployment, and Migration uses a qualitative and ethnographic approach to investigate the movement of ...

Is food aid the way of the future? What are the prospects for integrated public policies informed by the right to food? First World Hunger Revisite...

Examination of welfare during the last years of the Poor Law, bringing out the impact of poverty on particular sections of society - the lone mothe...

The first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century: the first century of welfare. The English 'Old Poor Law' was ...

A fresh look at the complex question of outdoor poor relief in the nineteenth century. The consequences of extreme poverty were a grim reality for...

Low income households are faced with various types of risks, increasing their vulnerability to poverty. In Cambodia, conditions of the rural poor -...

Postwar employment standards are being undermined and 'non-standard' employment is becoming more common. While scholars have pointed to negative co...

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Understanding Limerick is an edited collection featuring contributions from leading Irish scholars in the fields of Sociology, Social Policy, Crimi...

Economics of Faith examines the role of religious leaders in the development of poor relief institutions in early modern Europe. As preachers, poli...

International experts evaluate new policy directions in economic development and poverty reduction, building on the ideas of a pioneer in the new d...

An urgent proclamation of what life is like for American women without the security of a financial safety netIndie icon Michelle Tea--whose memoir ...

Active labour market policies aim to assist people not in work to move into employment through a range of interventions including job search, prepa...

How Black Was My Valley is a people's history of the former mining communities of South Wales. Weaving together the personal with the political, i...

Half a century after the launch of the War on Poverty, its complex origins remain obscure. Battle for Bed-Stuy reinterprets President Lyndon Johnso...

A personal, journalistic ethnography of the modern American working class, based on the travels and interactions of the author through the American...