Poverty & unemployment books

This introduction to social change covers the momentous and relatively recent changes that have occurred in the...  Read More >>

In the three works contained in this volume, written in 1797-8, Jeremy Bentham offers a detailed exposition of his...  Read More >>

This introduction to social change covers the momentous and relatively recent changes that have occurred in the...  Read More >>

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Looks at the fragile economic and political situation in Africa, and argues that the main reason why Africa's people...  Read More >>

Culture has returned to the poverty research agenda. Over the past decade, sociologists, demographers, and even...  Read More >>

A revealing study of the giant squatter settlements of Rio de Janeiro and of the vibrant communities of migrants...  Read More >>

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When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better...  Read More >>

Brings together and evaluates the state of knowledge on the relationship between poverty, equity, and globalization....  Read More >>

This book consists of papers that present the findings of research done by the SMERU Research Institute in Jakarta,...  Read More >>

This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy; how social inequality...  Read More >>

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In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia...  Read More >>

How to House the Homeless, editors Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brendan O'Flaherty propose that the answers entail rethinking...  Read More >>

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Thousands of charities have poured trillions of dollars in aid into Africa over the last fifty years for a huge...  Read More >>

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Thousands of charities have poured trillions of dollars in aid into Africa over the last fifty years for a huge...  Read More >>

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Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare argues that the radical transformation of American culture that took...  Read More >>

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In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her...  Read More >>

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Studies the working poor in the United States, focusing on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among...  Read More >>