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Labour Market Policy and Unemployment
Edited by Jaap de Koning, Hugh Mosley
This book examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies and their contribution to the prevention of social exclusion. The evaluation studies reported in this volume focus on two aspects of active labour market policies tha...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse]()
The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse
Edited by Michael Grossman, Chee-Ruey Hsieh
This book extends the frontiers of research on the economics of substance use and abuse in a variety of extremely significant ways. It focuses on the determinants and consequences of the consumption of cigarettes, alcohol, betel quid, an... -
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Environment, Society and Natural Resource Management
Edited by Geoffrey Lawrence, Vaughan Higgins, Stewart Lockie
As greater significance is placed on the relationship between people and their environment it is increasingly acknowledged that few environmental problems can be solved without considering the social context in which they arise. But what... -
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![Contemporary Minority Migration, Education and Ethnicity in China]()
Contemporary Minority Migration, Education and Ethnicity in China
Robyn Iredale, Naren Bilik, Wang Su, Fei Guo, Caroline Hoy
Rural–urban migration is an important aspect in the development of countries. Until the late 1980s China was one of the few countries that controlled population movement both directly and indirectly through policies of economic and socia... -
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Regulation Theory and the Crisis of Capitalism
Edited by Bob Jessop
This five-volume collection (with individual volumes available separately) provides a comprehensive overview of the regulation approach to capitalism and its crisis-tendencies. Edited by a major British contributor to the approach, the c... -
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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.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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... -
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![Capitalism, Socialism, and Radical Political Economy]()
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]()
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...
