Poverty & Unemployment

Can entrepreneurship serve as a pathway out of poverty? Are the poor able to create ventures that can improve their economic circumstances and enha...

Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the mo...

At the end of 1795 Jeremy Bentham, the English Utilitarian philosopher and reformer, began to compose a far-reaching plan. He proposed to restructu...

The South Asia Economics Students' Meet is a unique platform created in 2003-04 to give young undergraduate students of Economics an opportunity to...

World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either...

In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her mother's partner and the establi...

Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities   In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ...

Homelessness & Health in Canada explores, for the first time, the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health of homele...

Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities   In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ...

Wastelands is an exploration of trash, the scavengers who collect it, and the precarious communities it sustains. After enduring war and persecutio...

Millions of low-income African Americans in the United States lack access to health care. How do they treat their health care problems? In Health C...

What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially impor...

In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshake...

Creative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropoli...

The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This vo...

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives with the aim of broadening understandings of poverty. It contains both empirical and conce...

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives with the aim of broadening understandings of poverty. It contains both empirical and conce...

Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Co...

An understanding of personal debt requires an understanding of the complex social systems that produce poverty. By drawing upon international persp...

This book examines how people's self-awareness is affected by both internal and external factors amid war and poverty. It explores how agency has i...

Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Leaving her home, she ...

'I tore through the pages. A book I'll read over and over again' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'Illuminating' OBSERVER We've all had our share of mould, do...

'I tore through the pages. A book I'll read over and over again' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'Illuminating' OBSERVER We've all had our share of mould, do...

Pakistan's economic performance over the past 65 years has confounded its critics when the country has performed much better than expected, especi...

A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated BookA devastating investigation into the corporate poverty complexthe myriad businesses that profit from the poor ...