Poverty & Unemployment

This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phra...

This title was first published in 2000. An analysis of income distribution and development in Kenya, seeking to increase the reader's understanding...

This title was first published in 2002: An investigation into the problem of identifying the poor and determining the poverty line. The book focuse...

This title was first published in 2000. The privatization of former social state housing through recent public-private partnerships is becoming inc...

This title was first published in 2000: Analyzing the poverty trends in Mexico during the 1980s and early 1990s, this work is concerned with the ex...

First published in 1910, this volume is a dispassionate analysis of the changes in and the various aspects of official policy towards pauperism fro...

First published in 1910, this volume is a dispassionate analysis of the changes in and the various aspects of official policy towards pauperism fro...

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reprod...

This title was first published in 2002: Analyzing labour market trends in sub-Saharan Africa since 1970, this volume employs data collected from th...

The working poor of the world are observed to engage in long hours in hard jobs and to work more if wages are further reduced. Mainstream economics...

This book explores the vital role of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in compensating for the markets and governments inability to provide vital se...

Since the group of least developed countries (LDCs) was identified in 1971, only five countries have graduated from the group, all of which are cha...

This volume brings together for the first time an updated collection of articles exploring poverty, poor relief, illness, and health care as they i...

Most, if not all of the global biogeochemical cycles on the earth have been broken or are at dangerous tipping points. These broken cycles have exp...

As urban populations in developing countries continue to grew rapidly, one of the most critical issues in the Third World has become providing shel...

Originally published in 1997 Working for Women? examines the ways in which women's patterns of paid and unpaid work have been mediated by the polic...

In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Liberalism Is Not Enough offers a sustained critiqu...

The studies collected here centre on the social and economic life of medieval Germany, within a broader European context. The first three articles ...

As urban populatiCC'lS in developing countries oootinue to grow rapidly, cne of the nest critical issues in the Third W:lrld has beoane p:rovidirYJ...

Standard employment relationships, with permanent contracts, regular hours, and decent pay, are under assault. Precarious work and unemployment are...

The problem of escalating population displacement demands global attention and country co-ordination. This book investigates the particular issue o...

The global financial crisis has demonstrated the impact and implications of late capitalism and its bedfellow, globalisation. In the European conte...

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern ...

Newman's ethnographic study considers the ways in which the family and school environments of eleven homeless school children affected their school...

Title first published in 2003. This informative volume addresses the impact of the EU on national policies to combat poverty in European member sta...

This title was first published in 2003. The working poor of the world are observed to engage in long hours in hard jobs and to work more if wages a...

Unlike other regions around the world, several Latin American countries have managed to reduce income inequality over the last decade. Higher growt...

Is entrepreneurship a pathway out of poverty? Does creating a business represent a means for improving ones life circumstances? Surprisingly little...

In this book, the authors present a new kind of interdisciplinary pedagogy that brings together antipoverty grassroots activism and relevant social...

By age 30, between 68 and 75 percent of young men in the United States, with only a high school degree or less, are fathers. This volume provides p...

Originally published in 1929, this volume discusses the early effects of the industrial revolution the condition of the cotton spinners, the hards...

Originally published in 1929, this volume discusses the early effects of the industrial revolution the condition of the cotton spinners, the hards...

A lack of socially determined needs, such as nourishment, education, and healthcare, can become deprivation indicators that are used to measure pov...

Given the present-day threats to American democracy, Teachers College Press is publishing this federal report with new introductions by U.S. Senato...