A controversial look at how the failure of most of the poor to work at all has transformed American politics, by a New York University political scientist who i

In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citi

After two decades of marketizing, an array of national and international actors have become concerned with growing global inequality, the failure to reduce the

Parallels between anti-welfare propagandists of the nineteenth century and well-funded policy research organizations of today are uncovered, revealing lessons t

This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles