Comparative Social Policy
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Private Pensions versus Social Inclusion?
Edited by Traute Meyer, Paul Bridgen, Barbara Riedmüller
This rigorous study sheds light on these issues. It assesses the extent to which six European multi-pillar pension regimes are socially inclusive, by micro-simulating retirement income for hypothetical citizens facing typical post-indust...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Policy and International Interventions in South East Europe
Edited by Bob Deacon, Paul Stubbs
This comprehensive and engaging volume investigates the role of international actors in the making of social policy in South East Europe. Introductory chapters on transnationalism and Europeanisation are followed by a series of nine link...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Consequences of Information
Jannis Kallinikos
This important book addresses the organizational and economic implications of the new technologies of information and communication. Jannis Kallinikos analyses the recent spectacular growth of information and the self-propelling proces...eBook:Find out more£27.96
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Competing Claims in Work and Family Life
Edited by Tanja van der Lippe, Pascale Peters
Competing claims on time in work and family life have become inherent, unavoidable features of the Western world. As households increasingly juggle competing responsibilities, and as job expectations and parenting standards intensify, ma... -
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Occupational Welfare
Bent Greve
Occupational welfare is becoming increasingly important in Europe. This book presents valuable new data on occupational welfare and its development, and questions not only the traditional clustering of welfare states, but also the analys...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy
Edited by Diane Perrons, Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Kath Ray, Kevin Ward
Contemporary societies are characterised by new and more flexible working patterns, new family structures and widening social divisions. This book explores how these macro-level changes affect the micro organisation of daily life, with r...eBook:Find out more£38.36
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Governing Home Care
Viola Burau, Hildegard Theobald, Robert H. Blank
Care of the elderly in their own homes has increasingly come into the focus of contemporary welfare policies and raises important questions about the governance of welfare in general. By taking a comparative and thematic approach, this i...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Work, Leisure and the Environment
Tim Robinson
This significant book explains how work–life balance is being destroyed because individuals fail to link their work effort with its adverse environmental effects and the personal costs they impose. -
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Social Planning
Edited by Jessie P.H. Poon, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
This volume presents a careful selection of the key contributions to social planning produced by leading scholars in the field. It addresses the many ethical and distributional matters which enter into planning processes. Many of these c... -
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The Diversity of Democracy
Edited by Colin Crouch, Wolfgang Streeck
Revisiting the now classical literature on neo-corporatism in light of current research and theory, the contributors illustrate the enormous influence of the ‘neo-corporatist debate’ on modern political science, political sociology, and ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Ageing and Pension Reform Around the World
Edited by Giuliano Bonoli, Toshimitsu Shinkawa
This book comprehensively documents developments in pension policy in eleven advanced industrial countries in Western Europe, East Asia and North America. In order to explore what population ageing means for the sustainability of pensi...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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Families, States and Labour Markets
Tommy Ferrarini
Tommy Ferrarini uses a macro-comparative, longitudinal and institutional approach to study the origins and the consequences of those institutions affecting family policy in eighteen post-world war welfare democracies. This book argues t...eBook:Find out more£25.00