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...

This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wide...

This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wide...

Near the Kenya-Sudan border, a team of international health program evaluators are abducted and force marched under a desert moon. Their pasts and ...

Why has Indias astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and bre...

Why has Indias astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and bre...

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

Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent - healthcare, education, pensions, benefits - is th...

Access to justice for all, regardless of the ability to pay, has been a core democratic value. But this basic human right has come under threat thr...

'This, right now, with no excuses, no delays, no equivocation, no loop-holes, no moaning' - Danny Dorling 'A concise, sharp book that makes an inc...

This collection considers academic research engagements with indigenous, small peasant, urban poor and labour social activism against colonial capi...

Issues of economic inequality and poverty have become increasingly central to public debate over the past fifty years. The literature on measuring ...