Poverty & Unemployment

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

A finalist for the Washington State Book AwardAffluent Seattle has one of the highest numbers of unhoused people in the United States. In 2021 an e...

Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United StatesTent City 3 provides Seattles unhoused people with a place to create and sustain...

Tommy Greenan was a young Scottish priest who chose to live and work among the poorest of the poor in civil war-torn El Salvador in the 1980s, shor...

Unique cross-cultural and multimedial approach to class identity and precarity in literature, theatre, and filmContemporary culture not merely refl...

Can philanthropy alleviate inequality? Do antipoverty programs work on the ground? In this eye-opening analysis, Erica Kohl-Arenas bores deeply int...

The Ethics of Global Poverty offers a thorough introduction to the ethical issues surrounding global poverty. It addresses important questions such...

Education and poverty exist in a highly contested relationship even in the developed world. On the one hand, educational outcomes seem solidly atta...

Scroungers, spongers, parasites These are just are some of the terms that are typically used, with increasing frequency, to describe the most vul...

The papers in Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Exclusion represent the most current research on poverty, deprivation, and income mob...

This title explores the experiences of the sick poor in modern Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives. This book provides a genuinely pan-Euro...

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 22 begins with papers of widespread interest on the impact of the Great Recession. The first paper address...

In 2015, the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana was a government 'no-go zone' due to the generally lawless environment. Participatory action researche...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023 A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning aut...

For many decades the international community has endeavoured to eliminate extreme poverty; however, it is estimated that around 800 million people ...

Aboveground, Manhattans Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, dis...

Aboveground, Manhattans Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, dis...

RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I couldn't put it down. . . an important book, raw and simple enough that you can't help but ...