Poverty & unemployment books

Providing new findings and insights, this book investigates the problem of poverty and inequality in China with...  Read More >>

The immensely rich archives from the administration of the English poor law before 1834 include letters to the overseers...  Read More >>

The majority of the world's poor live in Asia, and most of these live in rural areas. This title presents a framework...  Read More >>

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Exploring the nature of poverty, to identify the groups with a high poverty risk, this book examines growth-poverty...  Read More >>

A unique collaboration among social scientists around the entire Mediterranean littoral.  Read More >>

This book provides a major new cross-disciplinary framework for thinking about poverty and human rights. Drawing...  Read More >>

This book grows out of a five-year research project aimed at understanding the strengths and challenges of urban...  Read More >>

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At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people...  Read More >>

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Focuses on the discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions....  Read More >>

Brings shared experiences from various Asian countries, both in terms of migration within the region and outward...  Read More >>

This book maintains that chronic poverty is a significant issue in India which needs to be addressed by policy makers....  Read More >>

Provides a comprehensive picture of poverty in America. This book shows how poverty is measured and understood,...  Read More >>

Examines how twenty-six poverty-stricken African American men from Chicago view their prospects for getting ahead....  Read More >>

[L]egal charity has not only taken freedom of movement from the English poor but also from those who are threatened...  Read More >>

That raising income levels alleviates poverty, and that growth can be more or less effective in doing so, is well...  Read More >>

[L]egal charity has not only taken freedom of movement from the English poor but also from those who are threatened...  Read More >>

Now in paperback comes the ""New York Times"" bestseller--a landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty...  Read More >>

Brings shared experiences from various Asian countries, both in terms of migration within the region and outward...  Read More >>

It draws on research from twenty-two neighbourhoods in eleven European cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Antwerp,...  Read More >>

This volume brings together leading public intellectuals to take stock of current analytic understandings of poverty...  Read More >>

This volume brings together leading public intellectuals to take stock of current analytic understandings of poverty...  Read More >>