Poverty & Unemployment

A splendid and necessary publicationa great resource Iain SinclairCharles Booths landmark survey of life in late-19th-century London, published f...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Speaker's Book Award  A Hamilton Review of Books Best Book of 2023Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almo...

Poverty has been a fact of American life since the nations founding; every American president has faced this scourge during his administration in o...

A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised. A New Statesman Bo...

Poverty in Modern Europe explores the spatial dimensions of poverty in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe. Its essays focus on a variety of re...

'At times roaring and visceral, in turn gentle and embracing, always driven by hope and determination'RAYNOR WINN'Haunting and powerful' KATE MOSSE...

While Obama's triumphant 'Yes we can' continued to reverberate, it was tempting to believe that a new era of opportunity had dawned. But for severa...

In this reissue of the 1972 classic of social anatomy, Richard Sennets adds a new introduction to shows how the injuries of class persist into the ...

Hurricane Katrina inflicted damage on a scale unprecedented in American history, nearly destroying a major city and killing thousands of its citize...

***WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023*** 'Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tear...