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Social Security Outside the Realm of the Employment Contract
Edited by Mies Westerveld, Marius Olivier
All over the world countries face the challenge of inadequate social security coverage for workers without an employment contact. In countries of the global south, this phenomenon is a natural consequence of large informal economies. Cou...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Towards Convergence in Europe
Edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This book aims to answer a number of important questions. To what extent have European countri... -
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![Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law]()
Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law
Edited by Susan Harris Rimmer, Kate Ogg
For almost 30 years, scholars and advocates have been exploring the interaction and potential between the rights and well-being of women and the promise of international law. This collection posits that the next frontier for internationa...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion
Lorna Zischka
‘Giving’ time and money to the community indicates the existence of relationships that draw people together, and ‘who people give to’ indicates how inclusive these relational networks are. Using UK data for the analysis, Zischka argues t...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Robot Revolution
John Hudson
In the coming decades robots and artificial intelligence will fundamentally change our world. In doing so they offer the hope of a golden future, but there are dangers. This book looks at both the history of robots, in science and in fic...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Handbook of Organised Crime and Politics
Edited by Felia Allum, Stan Gilmour
This multidisciplinary Handbook examines the interactions that develop between organised crime groups and politics across the globe. This exciting original collection highlights the difficulties involved in researching such relationships...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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![Risk, Resilience, Inequality and Environmental Law]()
Risk, Resilience, Inequality and Environmental Law
Edited by Bridget M. Hutter
This insightful book considers how the law has adapted to the environmental challenges of the 21st Century and the ways in which it might be used to cope with environmental risks and uncertainties whilst promoting resilience and greater ...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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Handbook of European Social Policy
Edited by Patricia Kennett, Noemi Lendvai-Bainton
This Handbook comprises of 29 original pieces from key contributors to the field of European social policy. It is intended to capture the ‘state of the art’ in European social policy and to generate and contribute to debates on the the f...eBook:Find out more£37.56
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Contemporary Issues in Management, Second Edition
Lindsay Hamilton, Laura Mitchell, Anita Mangan
The new second edition of Contemporary Issues in Management is a must have for anyone teaching or wishing to better understand the field of critical management studies. The book combines a range of theoretical essays with insights into t...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Negotiating Early Job Insecurity
Edited by Bjørn Hvinden, Jacqueline O’Reilly, Mi A. Schoyen, Christer Hyggen
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. Offering new knowledge and insights into European job markets, this book explores how young ... -
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Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe
Edited by Bjørn Hvinden, Christer Hyggen, Mi A. Schoyen, Tomáš Sirovátka
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. Providing original insights into the factors causing early job insecurity in European countr... -
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A Research Agenda for Shrinking Cities
Justin B. Hollander
This prescient book presents the intellectual terrain of shrinking cities while exploring the key research questions in each of the field’s sub-domains and reviewing the range of methodologies within these topics.eBook:Find out more£23.16
