Sociology and Social Policy

Job Creation

Edited by Jordi Gual

Insufficient job creation and the decreasing quality of jobs are fundamental social problems throughout the industrialized world. This impressive book uses a multidisciplinary approach to provide an accessible and wide-ranging assessmen...

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Enterprise and the Welfare State

Edited by Martin Rein, Eskil Wadensjö

Enterprise and the Welfare State argues that there is more to welfare than simply provision by the state and so the focus of this book is on the welfare society rather than the welfare state. This requires a new system of statistical acc...

Paperback (1998)

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Hardback (1997)

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Urban Affairs and Urban Policy

Anthony Downs

The articles in this book set forth fundamental policy analyses concerning all of the major elements of urban policy. Written in Downs’s exceptionally clear and compelling style they focus on the space-related dimensions of urban affair...

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The Political Economy of Population Ageing

William A. Jackson

Population ageing has been the subject of much discussion in recent years, often expressed in alarmist language that advocates evasive policy action to avert an imminent demographic crisis. This forward-looking book evaluates the debate...

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Women in the labor market

Edited by Marianne A. Ferber

The rapid influx of women into the labour market has come to be recognised as one of the most important economic and social developments of the latter half of the 20th century. Women in the Labor Market is an authoritative collection of...

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Challenges to the Welfare State

Edited by Henry Cavanna

Challenges to the Welfare State examines and assesses cultural, economic and political problems facing welfare states in Europe and North America and provides policy suggestions to alleviate these problems. An important group of authors...

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Pensions and Population Ageing

John Creedy

The analysis of pensions presents many complex problems. A major aim of this book is to demonstrate how reasonably simple economic models can be designed and used to shed some light on the issues involved in population growth and pension...

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Unemployment in Theory and Practice

Edited by Thomas Lange

Unemployment in Theory and Practice examines the effectiveness of current policies in the battle against unemployment. It uses a variety of country case studies to analyse the range of potential causes of and cures for unemployment and ...

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Population Ageing, Migration and Social Expenditure

José Alvarado, John Creedy

The major industrialized countries are undergoing a significant demographic transition associated with low fertility rates combined with reduced mortality rates. A major consequence of the current transition is that populations are expe...

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Structural Adjustment without Mass Unemployment?

Edited by Simon Clarke

Mass unemployment has usually been seen as a necessary accompaniment to major structural adjustment, yet in Russia, amid economic collapse, enormous structural changes have taken place with remarkably low levels of unemployment. Some ha...

Hardback (January 1998)

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The SOciology of Politics

Edited by William Outhwaite, Luke Martell

This scholarly collection presents some of the most important classical and contemporary texts of relevance to political sociology. Volume I offers an overview of the sociological approach to the concepts of power and the state; it exami...

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