Sociology and Social Policy
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Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism
Edited by Steven Vertovec, Robin Cohen
This authoritative collection brings together the most significant papers by leading scholars in an increasingly important area of study. Social scientists and political analysts are becoming more and more aware of the importance of lon... -
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Social and Economic Transformation in East Central Europe
Terry Cox, Bob Mason
This book focuses not only on economic and political transformation since the demise of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, but also on the relationships between economic organization, social patterns and institutional change. -
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Globalization and Labour Relations
Edited by Peter Leisink
This important book presents an in-depth analysis of the neo-liberal viewpoint on globalization and its impact on labour relations. The policies of states and multinational corporations as well as their effects are analysed from the pers... -
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Migration and Social Cohesion
Edited by Steven Vertovec
There is a common assumption that immigrants contribute significantly to the breakdown of social cohesion. However, researchers and policymakers find that, on the contrary, immigrants contribute much to their adopted societies economica... -
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The Economics of the Family and Family Policy
Francisco Cabrillo
This comprehensive and authoritative book offers a global approach to the modern economics of the family, family law and family policy. Beginning with the division of labour in the family, this book deals with the economics of marriage...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Job Creation
Edited by Jordi Gual
Insufficient job creation and the decreasing quality of jobs are fundamental social problems throughout the industrialized world. This impressive book uses a multidisciplinary approach to provide an accessible and wide-ranging assessmen... -
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Enterprise and the Welfare State
Edited by Martin Rein, Eskil Wadensjö
Enterprise and the Welfare State argues that there is more to welfare than simply provision by the state and so the focus of this book is on the welfare society rather than the welfare state. This requires a new system of statistical acc... -
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Urban Affairs and Urban Policy
Anthony Downs
The articles in this book set forth fundamental policy analyses concerning all of the major elements of urban policy. Written in Downs’s exceptionally clear and compelling style they focus on the space-related dimensions of urban affair... -
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The Political Economy of Population Ageing
William A. Jackson
Population ageing has been the subject of much discussion in recent years, often expressed in alarmist language that advocates evasive policy action to avert an imminent demographic crisis. This forward-looking book evaluates the debate... -
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Women in the labor market
Edited by Marianne A. Ferber
The rapid influx of women into the labour market has come to be recognised as one of the most important economic and social developments of the latter half of the 20th century. Women in the Labor Market is an authoritative collection of... -
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Challenges to the Welfare State
Edited by Henry Cavanna
Challenges to the Welfare State examines and assesses cultural, economic and political problems facing welfare states in Europe and North America and provides policy suggestions to alleviate these problems. An important group of authors... -
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Pensions and Population Ageing
John Creedy
The analysis of pensions presents many complex problems. A major aim of this book is to demonstrate how reasonably simple economic models can be designed and used to shed some light on the issues involved in population growth and pension...