Sociology and Social Policy

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.

Hardback (April 2001)

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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...

Hardback (2001)

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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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The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Edited by Malcolm Cross

The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity is a comprehensive collection of the most significant articles to appear in the last thirty years. It presents the major ideas and approaches in this branch of sociology and covers the main themes in ...

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Income Maintenance Policy

Edited by Michael Hill

This authoritative collection, which includes a new introduction surveying the fields, contains key contributions from the comparative literature on the politics of income maintenance policy. In recent years theoretical work has been do...

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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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