Sociology and Social Policy
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Migration, Health and Survival
Edited by Frank Trovato
Publications in this field have, in general, been based predominantly on the experiences of individual national settings. Migration, Health and Survival offers a comparative approach, bringing together leading international scholars to p...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Services Disrupted
Edited by Flavia Martinelli, Anneli Anttonen, Margitta Mätzke
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This book revives the discussion on public social services and their redesign, with a focus ... -
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Timespace and International Migration
Edited by Elizabeth Mavroudi, Ben Page, Anastasia Christou
Furthering understanding of the temporalities and spatialities of how people move across international boundaries, this book analyses how timespace intersects with migrant journeys as an integral aspect of the rhythms of daily lives. Ind...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Technology and the Future of Work
Bent Greve
Changes in the labour market demand new solutions to mitigate the potentially dramatic wiping away of jobs, and this important book offers both analysis and suggestions for change. Bent Greve provides a systematic and vigorous assessment...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Transforming Gender and Family Relations
Åsa Lundqvist
This book is about how the activation of women into paid work was accomplished. It looks at the ideational grounds and the concrete measures that created the conditions for increasing the employment ratio of women, and thus also a farewe...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Heat, Greed and Human Need
Ian Gough
This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for sust...eBook:Find out more£19.96
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Media, Family Interaction and the Digitalization of Childhood
Edited by Anja R. Lahikainen, Tiina Mälkiä, Katja Repo
This is a first-class repository of new knowledge on how media and family routines intertwine in daily interactions. The multi-method approach reveals how varying forms of media affect the interaction between children and their parents. ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare
Edited by Wim van Oorschot, Femke Roosma, Bart Meuleman, Tim Reeskens
This book addresses new perspectives on the perceived popular deservingness of target groups of social services and benefits, offering new insights and analysis to this quickly developing field of welfare attitudes research. It provides ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Challenging Immigration Detention
Edited by Michael J. Flynn, Matthew B. Flynn
Immigration detention is an important global phenomenon increasingly practiced by states across the world in which human rights violations are commonplace. Challenging Immigration Detention introduces readers to various disciplines that ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work
Edited by Rob Lambert, Andrew Herod
Since the renaissance of market politics on a global scale, precarious work has become pervasive. Divided into two parts, the first section of this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of precarious work that have arisen ...eBook:Find out more£29.56
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Transitions to Good Governance
Edited by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Michael Johnston
Why have so few countries managed to leave systematic corruption behind, while in many others modernization is still a mere façade? How do we escape the trap of corruption, to reach a governance system based on ethical universalism? In t...eBook:Find out more£29.56
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Individualism and Inequality
Ralph Fevre
A belief in individual self-determination powered the development of universal human rights and inspired social movements from anti-slavery to socialism and feminism. At the same time, every attempt to embed individualism in systems of e...eBook:Find out more£29.56
