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![The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy]()
The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy
Edited by Susan Hayter
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 examines the ways in which collective bargaining addresses a variety of workplace ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Reforming Healthcare Systems
Edited by Theodore Marmor, Claus Wendt
Healthcare is one of modern society’s most crucial arenas – costly, important and controversial. This comprehensive two-volume collection brings together more than fifty scholarly articles on both healthcare systems in general and health... -
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Development and Religion
Matthew Clarke
Development and Religion explores how the world’s five major religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam – understand and practice ‘development’ through an examination of their sacred texts, social teaching and basic ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Democratizing Health
Edited by Hans Löfgren, Evelyne de Leeuw, Michael Leahy
This book examines the important role of consumer activism in health policy in different national contexts.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Innovation and Health
Thomas Grebel
Innovation and Health investigates both the origin and the diffusion of novelty in the field of health. It also provides a critical discussion of the methodology and theory of health economics. Neoclassical and evolutionary elements are... -
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State and Local Retirement Plans in the United States
Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig, John Sabelhaus
State and Local Retirement Plans in the United States explains how economic and political events have shaped the development of pension plans in the last century, and it argues that changes in the structure and generosity of these plans ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Beyond Welfare State Models
Edited by Pauli Kettunen, Klaus Petersen
Welfare state models have for decades been the gold standard of welfare state research. Beyond Welfare State Models escapes the straitjacket of conventional welfare state models and challenges the existing literature in two ways. Firstly...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Future of Futures
Elena Esposito
This book reconstructs the dynamics of economics, beginning explicitly with the role and the relevance of time: money uses the future in order to generate present wealth. Financial markets sell and buy risk, thereby binding the future. E...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![Setting Priorities for HIV/AIDS Interventions]()
Setting Priorities for HIV/AIDS Interventions
Robert J. Brent
HIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This book presents the cost–benefit analysis (CBA) framework in a well-researched and accessible manner to ensure that the mo...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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Global Finance and Social Europe
Edited by John Grahl
With global finance reshaping the world economy, this insightful new book provides a full account of the EU’s financial integration strategy, together with a critical assessment arguing the case for social control over global finance. W...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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![Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century]()
Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century
Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Rosemary Crompton, Clare Lyonette
Both women and men strive to achieve a work and family balance, but does this imply more or less equality? Does the persistence of gender and class inequalities refute the notion that lives are becoming more individualised? Leading inter...eBook:Find out more£27.96
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Immigration and Nation Building
Edited by Andrew Markus, Moshe Semyonov
This insightful study explores the growth of the two largest post-industrial immigrant nations since the Second World War – Australia and Israel. Almost one in four Australians were born outside the country, more than one in three Israelis.eBook:Find out more£25.00
