Poverty & Unemployment

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...

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 ...

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...

Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space and formalized in the institutions of property an...

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...

Why “aporophobia”—rejection of the poor—is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight itIn this revelatory book,...

Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that can be solved thr...

US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the “defining issue of our time.” It has inspired the “Occupy” movements, made a French ec...

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Experts from across the globe review leading social policy scholarship in this new volu...

This book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023. It explain...

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru...

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru...

THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF QUIZZING SENSATION JAY FLYNN: NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER! Readers have been LOVING The Quizmaster:'I read t...

In the 1880s, social reform leaders warned that the "unworthy" poor were taking charitable relief intended for the truly deserving. Armed with stat...

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c....