Social Issues & Processes

Community development both a collective effort and an achievement driven by individual facilitators with the aim of lifting a community out of pove...

Today 13 million people are living in poverty in the UK. According to a 2017 report, 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line. The new poor, how...

Social policy, as executed in western civilization, is apparently at a crossroads, with forgotten contradictions between the rich and the poor havi...

The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does su...

Does real poverty still exist in Britain? How do people differentiate between the supposed deserving and undeserving poor? Is there a culture of wo...

''Enlightening and startling... The world needs more writers like Matthew Small.'' Charlie Carroll''Brings into sharp relief the realities of pover...

Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further.  Food bank queues are growing, levels of s...

First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about pove...

Poverty in Canada s inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of essays published over the past dec...

This thought-provoking and challenging book is about sex and profits. It is not a book about Women's Lib, but it is a book that will lead to the re...

Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on...

In Class Dismissed, John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and inequality in the Uni...

A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised. A New Statesman Bo...

This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent ...

  LONGLISTED FOR A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD, 2020 A dazzling tribute to the resilience and determination of a remarkable community of women In the spr...

Carmen Callil explores her roots in a book that is a miracle of research and whose writing is fuelled by righteous anger - a story of Empire, migra...

This book brings forth debates on the production and eradication of poverty from experiences in the global South. It collects a set of innovative a...