Poverty & Unemployment

In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called 'Pauperland.' More than two hundred years later, poverty and social de...

More than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas, but a billion of these people reside in neighbourhoods characterized by entrench...

I was murdered once.True stories (and wild speculations) about the lives and deaths of homeless people, uncovered by the UK’s leading homelessness ...

The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that t...

What if the idealized image of American society—a land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic success—is completely wrong? Few to...

In 1972, Peter Singer published "Famine, Affluence and Morality," which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. T...

Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, eithe...

The Sunday Times bestseller by Jay Blades, the beloved star of hit BBC One show The Repair Shop. Making It is an inspirational memoir about beating...

For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition,...

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an "unconditional war" on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Amer...

Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mothe...

The book explores the complex and shifting geographies of rural Wales in the twenty first century. It draws on a broad range of recent academic and...

Poverty violates fundamental human values through its impact on individuals and human environments. Poverty also goes against the core values of de...

Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions.Jacob Riis’s pioneeri...

A Nobel Peace Prize-winner outlines his radical economic vision for a better future. Muhammad Yunus is the economist who invented microcredit, fou...

'There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until ...