Poverty & Unemployment

The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does su...

'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold'Powerfully told...an impressive work' The Times'Gives a voice to the voiceless' Australian Book Revie...

Touching, insightful and human this book demands a social and, above all, a political response Jon SnowTamsen Courtenay spent two months speaking ...

Who Dares Lives consists of three parts: Part I: The first part tells the story of an eleven-year-old boy as he begins to turn into a man. Lenord h...

The Targeted Poverty Alleviation programme was proposed by President Xi in 2013 and aims to give poor people the resources to lift themselves out o...

In this seminal book, Krumer-Nevo introduces the Poverty-Aware Paradigm: a radical new framework for social workers and professionals working with ...

¿Y SI NOS ESTAMOS EQUIVOCANDO EN NUESTRAS PREGUNTAS SOBRE LA POBREZA? Este relato nace de una pregunta que nunca nos hemos planteado: ?quien es due...

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it...

Social policy, as executed in western civilization, is apparently at a crossroads, with forgotten contradictions between the rich and the poor havi...

Does real poverty still exist in Britain? How do people differentiate between the supposed deserving and undeserving poor? Is there a culture of wo...

''Enlightening and startling... The world needs more writers like Matthew Small.'' Charlie Carroll''Brings into sharp relief the realities of pover...

Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further.  Food bank queues are growing, levels of s...

We live in a world of constant and dynamic change. Change manifests in various guises ranging from small to big, local to global, individual to soc...

First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about pove...

Poverty in Canada s inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of essays published over the past dec...

This thought-provoking and challenging book is about sex and profits. It is not a book about Women's Lib, but it is a book that will lead to the re...