Poverty & Unemployment

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The Road to Wigan Pier is a book in two parts: the first half is Orwell’s description of working-class life in industrial communities of the north ...

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The third volume in the classic story of Helen Forrester’s childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s. Hele...

The second volume of Helen Forrester’s powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Li...

Written with great empathy and Raúf’s trademark humour, this moving story gives a child’s-eye view of the increasing problem of food poverty. ...

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Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard...

Americans are overworked. After declining for a century through hard-fought labor movement victories, average annual work hours increased approxima...

This book addresses the question of the extent of and responses to inequalities in the UK in 2017 in the wake of the 2008 Great Recession. Inequali...

The process of globalization has implications for human rights, though the relationship between the two is not always clear. How does globalization...

Stereotypes of economically marginalized black and brown youth focus on drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood. Families, schools, nonprofit o...

Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. Cut ...

The world of welfare has changed radically. As the poor trade welfare checks for low-wage jobs, their low earnings qualify them for a hefty check c...

Unemployment and the state in Britain offers an important and original contribution to understandings of the 1930s. Through a comparative case stud...

A powerful exposé of Parisian haute couture Book of the Week, Times Higher Education Fashion is one of the most powerful industries in the world,...

Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for grave...

Poverty and unemployment are on the rise among Canadian youth.Clearly something needs to change, but current social-assistance modelsare based on p...

Over 235,000 people couch-surf, stay in emergency shelters, or live on the street in Canada every year. But lack of housing security is just one ba...

With the use of wide-ranging case studies the author clearly illustrates the impact of schemes intended to re-allocate land in developing countries...

For nearly four decades, Chinas manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally betwee...

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...

A revolutionary approach to poverty that takes human irrationality into account-and unlocks the mystery of making philanthropic spending really ...

For nearly four decades, China’s manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally betwe...

In Better Must Come, Matthew D. Marr reveals how social contexts at various levels combine and interact to shape the experiences of transitional ho...

In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and change...

In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and change...

What does the Bible say about poverty and our responsibility toward the poor? This book examines the concept of “brother’s keeper” in both the anci...

Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation As deb...

The Poverty of Nations is a study about the status and trends in human well-being as it varies from nation to nation worldwide. A basic premise is ...

What kinds of experiences do we have with the poor and the oppressed around the world? What do we really know about the ins and outs of the lives o...

At the conclusion of the twentieth century, the US economy was booming, but the gap between the rich and poor widened significantly in the 1990s, p...

For ten years James Robertson walked the twenty-one-mile round-trip from his Detroit home to his factory job; when his story went viral, it brought...

Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor a...

Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor a...

This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the...