Poverty & unemployment books

An innovative study, based on several years of living in inner city Yokohama. Stevens looks beyond stereotypes of...  Read More >>

In the post-World War II era, the U.S. government's full employment policy led to rapid mechanization of production...  Read More >>

Welfare mothers are popularly viewed as passively dependent on their checks and averse to work. Reformers across...  Read More >>

Widely regarded as one of the classics of post--war historical writing, this book shows how central the role of...  Read More >>

This study focuses on the connection between poverty and the health of young people in the UK. It examines health...  Read More >>

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This book is a collection of writings on the measurement of poverty and inequality, a phenomenon widely observed...  Read More >>

Provides a cogent analysis of the economic and social realities for women in the United States, across class lines....  Read More >>

Who are the homeless in Britain today? How does their homelessness occur? Contributors review theoretical and legal...  Read More >>

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Carol Stack tells the story of a little-known reverse exodus of half a million black Americans in the cities of...  Read More >>

Over the last twenty years more and more historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have turned...  Read More >>

By chronicling the everyday experiences of women in a rural Head Start program, this book examines the processes...  Read More >>

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Faces of Poverty dispels the misconceptions and myths about welfare and the welfare population that have clouded...  Read More >>

Considering the feasibility of full employment in a modern market economy, the book identifies the hard choices...  Read More >>

Considering the feasibility of full employment in a modern market economy, the book identifies the hard choices...  Read More >>

First World Hunger examines hunger and the politics of food security, and welfare reform (1980-95) in five 'liberal'...  Read More >>

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This book examines the impact of rapid economic liberalization on the livelihoods and natural environments of poor...  Read More >>

Based on the presupposition that shelter is a basic human right in the world's richest, most advanced nation, the...  Read More >>

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There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them, acknowledges Michael...  Read More >>