Sociology and Social Policy
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Business, Organized Labour and Climate Policy
Peter J. Glynn, Timothy Cadman, Tek N. Maraseni
This impartial study analyses the role of employer’s organisations and trade unions in climate change policy and its impacts on the labour market. The policies of government to manage greenhouse gas emissions will require business to cha...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Nevena Kulic, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi
Recognising that social change over recent decades has strengthened the need for early childhood education and care, this book seeks to answer what role this plays in creating and compensating for social inequalities in educational attai...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Inequality Across the Generations
Edited by Jani Erola, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen
Social Inequality Across the Generations provides an innovative perspective on social stratification studies by advancing the theoretical and empirical case for the influence of resource compensation. It examines whether resource compens...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Housing Wealth and Welfare
Edited by Caroline Dewilde, Richard Ronald
Both growth and unevenness in the distribution of housing wealth have become characteristic of advanced societies in recent decades. Housing Wealth and Welfare examines, in various contexts, how housing property ownership has become cent...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Sandwich Generation
Edited by Ronald J. Burke, Lisa M. Calvano
Rising life expectancy has led to the growth of the ‘Sandwich Generation’ – men and women who are caregivers to their children of varying ages as well as for one or both parents whilst still managing their own household and work responsi...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Elder Law
Edited by Ann Numhauser-Henning
The ageing population poses a huge challenge to law and society, carrying important structural and institutional implications. This book portrays elder law as an emerging research discipline in the European setting in terms of both conce...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Reimagining Home in the 21st Century
Edited by Justine Lloyd, Ellie Vasta
Providing ways of reimagining home, this book demonstrates that thinking differently about home advances our understanding of processes of belonging. Authors in this collection explore home in relation to the figure of the stranger and p...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes
Edited by Rosalind Edwards, John Goodwin, Henrietta O’Connor, Ann Phoenix
This book asks the important question; Can the by-products of research activity be treated as data and of research interest in themselves? This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume considers the analytic value of a range of ‘by-produ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Civic University
Edited by John Goddard, Ellen Hazelkorn, Louise Kempton, Paul Vallance
This innovative book addresses the leadership and management challenges of maximising the contribution of universities to civil society both locally and globally. It does this by developing a model of the civic university as an academic ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi
From an international comparative perspective, this third book in the prestigious eduLIFE Lifelong Learning series provides a thorough investigation into how social inequalities arise during individuals’ secondary schooling careers. Payi...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Labor Standards in International Supply Chains
Daniel Berliner, Anne Regan Greenleaf, Milli Lake, Margaret Levi, Jennifer Noveck
Labor Standards in International Supply Chains examines developments in working conditions over the past thirty years. The authors analyze the stakeholders and mechanisms that create challenges and opportunities for improving labor right...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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Couples' Transitions to Parenthood
Edited by Daniela Grunow, Marie Evertsson
It is common for European couples living fairly egalitarian lives to adopt a traditional division of labour at the transition to parenthood. Based on in-depth interviews with 334 parents-to-be in eight European countries, this book explo...eBook:Find out more£25.00