Poverty & unemployment books

Twenty-five million Americans—nearly 9 percent of the U.S. population—rely on food pantries. Another 13 million...  Read More >>

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One in six people in America face hunger, but famine is a worldwide issue. Millions of people are starving across...  Read More >>

One in six people in America face hunger, but famine is a worldwide issue. Millions of people are starving across...  Read More >>

John Atkinson Hobson (1858-1940), commonly known as John A. Hobson or J. A. Hobson, was an English economist and...  Read More >>

Building on Amartya Sen’s famous claim that no famine has ever occurred in a democratic country, this volume examines...  Read More >>

Examines the 'work first' Welfare-to-Work Grants program as it was implemented in a state that provided relatively...  Read More >>

The book is 6 x 9, 96 pages with a profile followed by a photograph every two pages. It's an untold story of America's...  Read More >>

A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930, that shows how meanings of poverty have changed over...  Read More >>

A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930, that shows how meanings of poverty have changed over...  Read More >>

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Provides tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyse poverty. It provides background materials for...  Read More >>

Explores the annual crisis in food production which leads to the scurge of seasonal hunger.  Read More >>

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Jeffrey Sachs, world-renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis, here draws on his twenty-five...  Read More >>

Dipankar Gupta, one of India's foremost thinkers on social and economic issues, takes a critical-and controversial-look...  Read More >>

Friesen offers his take on why the financial system is crumbling and what canbe done to fix the situation.  Read More >>

Creative non-fiction or fiction, Tales from Colonia Popular seeks to describe the lives of people the author met...  Read More >>

Brandt and Otzen's key book undertakes a wide-ranging conceptual reorientation of development cooperation, criticizing...  Read More >>

Employing social constructionism, policy analysis and rhetorical analysis, this work greatly aids in explaining...  Read More >>

"Low-skilled women in the 1990s took widely different paths in trying to support their children. Some held good...  Read More >>

Argues that a rights-based rhetoric employed by Social Security's original supporters enabled advocates of privatization...  Read More >>

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are one of the most popular interventions in the social sectors in developing...  Read More >>