Poverty & Unemployment

Booklist Editors Choice Best Books of 2019 An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equal...

''A mesmerising book, full of story, truth, pain, lyricism, humour and astonishment: the stuff of a difficult life, fully lived, and masterfully tr...

Ending poverty continues to be a major challenge for the global community. It is even more urgent and relevant today when the world is facing the c...

Food is at the center of national debates about how Americans live and the future of the planet. Not everyone agrees about how to reform our relati...

On May 10, 1900, an enthusiastic Brooklyn crowd bid farewell to the Quito. The ship sailed for famine-stricken Bombay, carrying both tangible relie...

This book examines Irish Poor Law reform during the years of the Irish revolution and Irish Free State. This work is a significant addition to the ...

In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverté?, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II bat...

In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublins tenements. If it werent for hi...

Over recent years, tabloid readers have become familiar with the concept of the white working class, those thought to have been left behind by glob...

On January 20, 1949 US President Harry S. Truman officially opened the era of development. On that day, over one half of the people of the world w...

Why are some people poor? Why does absolute poverty persist despite substantial economic growth? What types of late economic development or 'catch-...

A half-century after the War on Poverty of Lyndon Johnson, poverty rates remain unchanged. Scholars have advanced polarized theories about the caus...

Despite living hard, endlessly challenging lives, the rural poor remain tirelessly optimistic, believing things will get better next year. As on...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily to increase the food purchasing...