Poverty & Unemployment

'A breath of fresh air' - Norman Finklestein Workers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire...

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Rough Trad...

'One of the most exciting and provocative books that I've read in a long time' - Mike Davis, author of Planet of the Slums Can people who live in ...

Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often invo...

By the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but fo...

This book documents and explains the remarkable decline in the American marriage rate that began about 1970. This decline has occurred in spite of ...

In January of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War on Poverty." Over the next several years, the United States launched several progra...

Poor News examines the way discourses of poverty are articulated in the news media by incorporating specific narratives and definers that bring abo...

For ten years James Robertson walked the twenty-one-mile round-trip from his Detroit home to his factory job; when his story went viral, it brought...

This book argues that active citizenship and poverty are inextricably linked. A common sentiment in discussions of poverty and social policy is tha...

Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice in 1971, political philosophers in the English-speaking world have shared a broad consens...

The Mediation of Poverty: The News, New Media, and Politics discusses the influence of the increasing use of digital technologies on media and poli...

Do federal, state, and local governments differ in their responsiveness to the needs of the poorest citizens? Are policy outcomes different when fe...

Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer...

The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Res...

In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national c...

By the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but fo...

Does recognition of the basic human right to subsistence imply that the needy are morally permitted to take and use other people’s property to get ...

Surviving with Dignity explores three key interconnected themes—structural violence, suffering, and surviving with dignity—through examining the li...

Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice in 1971, political philosophers in the English-speaking world have shared a broad consens...