Sociology and Social Policy
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Environment, Society and Natural Resource Management
Edited by Geoffrey Lawrence, Vaughan Higgins, Stewart Lockie
As greater significance is placed on the relationship between people and their environment it is increasingly acknowledged that few environmental problems can be solved without considering the social context in which they arise. But what... -
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Contemporary Minority Migration, Education and Ethnicity in China
Robyn Iredale, Naren Bilik, Wang Su, Fei Guo, Caroline Hoy
Rural–urban migration is an important aspect in the development of countries. Until the late 1980s China was one of the few countries that controlled population movement both directly and indirectly through policies of economic and socia... -
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The Price of Virtue
Vivien Foster, Susana Mourato, David Pearce, Ece Özdemiroglu
The authors of this pioneering book attempt to address this problem by utilizing survey techniques, originally developed in environmental economics, to place an economic value on the benefits provided by the voluntary sector in the UK.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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European Working Lives
Edited by Steve Jeffreys, Frederik M. Beyer, Christer Thörnqvist
The contributors examine global trends such as the decentralisation of industrial relations and the revival of neo-liberalism, and discuss them from a theoretical and empirical perspective. They go on to argue that these global trends ca... -
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Radical Political Economy
Edited by Robert Pollin
This book demonstrates the continued vibrancy and relevance of radical political economy as a mode of social scientific analysis. Scholars and students in economics, sociology, history, philosophy and political science will find the ess... -
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Working-Time Changes
Edited by Jacqueline O’Reilly, Inmaculada Cebrián, Michel Lallement
Drawing on both quantitative longitudinal panel study data and qualitative case study material, the authors (whose expertise is drawn from the fields of economics, sociology and law) provide an original perspective on the nature and impl... -
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The Frontier Environment and Social Order
Michael R. Redclift
The Frontier Environment and Social Order examines the development of civil society within the forest frontier of Upper Canada, using the letters of Francis Codd, a young English doctor, who settled in the Ottawa Valley in 1846 as the te... -
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Preventing Unemployment in Europe
Edited by Paul Klemmer, Rüdiger Wink
Preventing Unemployment in Europe is an interdisciplinary volume offering an effective and authoritative contribution to the ongoing debate concerning the utility of preventive labour market policies. Positive labour market performance ... -
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Social Environmental Research in the European Union
Michael R. Redclift, Elizabeth Shove, Barend van der Meulen, Sujatha Raman
This book explores the making of international social science, and the parts which academics, policymakers and research managers play in creating European social environmental research. The authors present and analyse a complex picture ... -
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Policy Measures for Low-Wage Employment in Europe
Edited by Wiemer Salverda, Claudio Lucifora, Brian Nolan
Policy Measures for Low-Wage Employment in Europe is a focused and up-to-date set of studies highlighting several important new findings. The book considers in-depth policy measures in the areas of taxation, benefits and employer subsid... -
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Surviving Post-communism
K. Roberts, S. C. Clark, C. Fagan, J. Tholen
How do young people survive in the era of high unemployment, persistent economic crises and poor living standards that characterise post-communist society in the former Soviet Union? This major new original book – written by leading aut... -
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Pensions, Savings and Capital Flows
Helmut Reisen
This book explores the international aspects of pension reform, private savings and volatile capital markets and clarifies how they relate to each other. Building the case for the pension-improving benefits of global asset diversificati...