Poverty & unemployment books

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Winning the Knowledge Game focuses on the thinking and attitudes required to remain knowledgeable, competitive and...  Read More >>

An assessment of participatory research in poverty reduction work. It shows how participatory research has affected...  Read More >>

In this fascinating and much-needed ethnographic study, Megan Ravenhill presents the results of ten years' research...  Read More >>

Welfare offices usually attract negative descriptions of bureaucracy with their queues, routines, and impersonal...  Read More >>

Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of...  Read More >>

This volume examines how collective bargaining and property rights, separately and together, influence the well-being...  Read More >>

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We live in a world of constant and dynamic change. Change manifests in various guises ranging from small to big,...  Read More >>

In the vein of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Chris Hedges and American...  Read More >>

This book examines the provision of poor relief in Ireland from the immediate aftermath of the Famine in the mid-nineteenth...  Read More >>

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Information and communication technologies have long promised to provide quality education, improve health care,...  Read More >>

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Examination of welfare during the last years of the Poor Law, bringing out the impact of poverty on particular sections...  Read More >>

Kevin M. Graham argues that political philosophy cannot fully understand race-related injustice without shifting...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking work is the first to trace developments in poor relief from the mid-fourteenth century to the...  Read More >>

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Proposes an understanding of development in which the physical, social, and spiritual dimensions of life are seamlessly...  Read More >>

Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty examines welfare participants who live in chronically poor rural areas...  Read More >>

Helping the poor is a question central to American life. Partially driven by America's Judeo-Christian heritage,...  Read More >>

The persistence of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), in the face of increased globalization and rapid trade liberalization...  Read More >>

This book offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. It shows how homeless...  Read More >>

Since 1996, politicians and public officials in the United States have celebrated the success of welfare reform...  Read More >>