Poverty & Unemployment

A Christian response to poverty in Britain today. When you think of poverty in Britain today, do you picture innocent children going without food o...

Radicals such as socialists, syndicalists, and anarchists are often thought of as marginal in American history. However, in the early decades of th...

Poverty, and calls to end it, date back centuries. Even in prosperous modern times, despite the huge transformation of society, poverty has persist...

The records of the Sheffield Workhouse were destroyed in the bombing of Sheffield during the Second World War. However, using archive material, new...

Access to adequate food and nutrition is a fundamental human right. However, a significant population worldwide presently suffers from malnutrition...

This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it playe...

This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it playe...

A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION...

I can''t imagine how it could be possible for me to complete my high school studies four years ago without your intervention. In a nutshell, Red Ru...

This book opens with a review of urban poverty in Bangladesh, analysing socioeconomic aspects of the marginal poor under three headings: migration ...

'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own vers...

''It''s a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb.'' Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing ...

The current moment faced by the microfinance field reflects the opening lines from Charles Dickens'' A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of time...

This book presents edited and revised versions of most of the papers presented at the First International Conference on Sustainable Alternatives fo...