Poverty & Unemployment

Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children ...

A Civil Rights Journey presents the astonishing archive of Dr Doris Derby: photographer, activist, and professor of anthropology. Active throughout...

A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women A War on Global Poverty ...

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes makes the case that one percenters like him should pay their fortune forward in a radically simple way: a guarante...

Your child can achieve great things.A few years ago, pregnant women in four corners of the world heard those words and hoped they could be true. Am...

Born into a loving working-class home, Lynn Ruanes early years were idyllic, but all that changed when two shocking incidents in her teenage years ...

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big...

Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. ...

In the 1980s, somewhere in Austin, Helton was young, married, and jobless. After a few strung-out years trying to make it as a writer, he was caugh...

***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021*** 'A brilliant, searing exposé of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones 'Work hard, get paid.' It...

Bonds and Fords Almshouses are as recognisable to citizens and visitors to Coventry in the 21st Century as they would have been when first founded,...

The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor ...