Poverty & Unemployment

*NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay' Rory Stewart'Hilarious, shocking and deeply sad ...

*NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay' Rory Stewart'Hilarious, shocking and deeply sad ...

'Masterpiece' Evening Standard 'Fascinating' The Economist Best Titles of 2024 In this vivid coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson recounts growing ...

Our knowledge and awareness of mental health has never been greater, but little progress has been made in addressing a key cause of poor mental hea...

Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. If trends continue, we should expect to see more people li...

Inequality is one of todays greatest challenges, obstructing poverty reduction and sustainable development. As the power of elites grows and societ...

Critical time intervention (CTI) is a time-limited, evidence-based model of care coordination for people that is delivered during a critical period...

Enthralling; it is well worth the trip. --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever ...

Experts often assume that the poor, hungry, rural, and/or precarious need external interventions. They frequently fail to recognize how the same pe...

The last few decades have seen an increase in the migration of ageing people from richer Northern and Western countries to poorer Southern and East...

In this compelling dialogue, two of the worlds most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments ...

Drawing from ethnographic research, this book presents childrens lived experience of poverty and vulnerability in Kenya. By taking the case of Siay...

The need for paid care workers to provide professional, good quality care for those needing daily support continues to grow throughout the world. ...

An adroit, intelligent and painstaking social history Poor Bickerton offers us a luxurious tapestry from which everyone interested in English soci...

Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty, including its causes, con...

The India Migration Report 2017 examines forced migration caused by political conflicts, climate change, disasters (natural and man-made) and devel...

Over the past two decades it has become widely recognized that housing issues have to be placed in a broader framework acknowledging that civil soc...

This title was first published in 2003. The rapid demographic aging of populations worldwide, and most dramatically in developing countries, will r...

First published in 1910, this volume is a dispassionate analysis of the changes in and the various aspects of official policy towards pauperism fro...

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern ...