. This paper reviewsthe long-running debate about whether area-based policies can make asignificant impact on poverty and …

World market and American slavery: problems of historical method -- World of capital, worlds of labor: reworking class … in global perspective -- The "second slavery": bonded labor and the transformation of the nineteenth century world … grounds, and the reconstitution of labor in post-emancipation Martinique …

setting out the extent of the problem ofchild poverty, the causes are discussed and Britain's problem is set ininternational … perspective. The impact on child poverty of policiesdesigned to raise incomes directly is analysed using micro …-simulationmodelling. A major emphasis of current policy is on the promotion ofpaid work, and we explore the potential for poverty reduction …