Poverty & Unemployment

It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have...

An examination of poverty and homelessness in Halifax at the turn of 20th century, this book challenges the notion that the poor are deviants who a...

This report summarises the results of a research project commissioned by BRE Trust to apply a methodology developed to calculate the cost of poor h...

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 ...

On an island at the eastern edge of India, rural, remote and dense with jungle, is a Muslim village. In an ever-shifting landscape of mangroves and...

'An illuminating portrait of Baltimore ... Readers will be enthralled' Publishers Weekly A kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city...

From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Climate change is the main challenge facing developed countries in the 21st century. To what extent d...

This landmark study provides the first comprehensive assessment of the nature and associations between the three main forms of social disadvantage ...

Following Venezuelas El Sistema, activists from across the globe are founding intensive orchestra programmes for children in need. Tricia Tunstall ...

This absorbing book explores all aspects of life in that feared institution, the workhouse. From the staff who lived and worked there to the poor s...

Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students' lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save...

Voted one of the Guardian best books of 2014 by Owen Jones. After coming to power in May 2010, the Coalition government in the United Kingdom embar...

According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious boo...