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Unemployment in Theory and Practice
Edited by Thomas Lange
Unemployment in Theory and Practice examines the effectiveness of current policies in the battle against unemployment. It uses a variety of country case studies to analyse the range of potential causes of and cures for unemployment and ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Population Ageing, Migration and Social Expenditure]()
Population Ageing, Migration and Social Expenditure
José Alvarado, John Creedy
The major industrialized countries are undergoing a significant demographic transition associated with low fertility rates combined with reduced mortality rates. A major consequence of the current transition is that populations are expe... -
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Structural Adjustment without Mass Unemployment?
Edited by Simon Clarke
Mass unemployment has usually been seen as a necessary accompaniment to major structural adjustment, yet in Russia, amid economic collapse, enormous structural changes have taken place with remarkably low levels of unemployment. Some ha... -
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The SOciology of Politics
Edited by William Outhwaite, Luke Martell
This scholarly collection presents some of the most important classical and contemporary texts of relevance to political sociology. Volume I offers an overview of the sociological approach to the concepts of power and the state; it exami... -
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the sociology of the military
Edited by Giuseppe Caforio
The Sociology of the Military is an authoritative selection of articles providing an historical overview of the field and illustrating the major directions of contemporary research. The book considers the forerunners to a sociology of t... -
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![International Handbook of Labour Market Policy and Evaluation]()
International Handbook of Labour Market Policy and Evaluation
Edited by Günther Schmid, Jacqueline O’Reilly, Klaus Schömann
This major Handbook is a detailed, up-to-date guide to different national labour markets and policies to combat unemployment and their outcomesThis major new handbook is a detailed, up-to-date guide to different national labour markets a... -
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Social Policy in Hong Kong
Edited by Paul Wilding, Ahmed S. Huque, Julia L.P.- W. Tao
Social Policy in Hong Kong provides for the first time a comprehensive and critical analysis of social policy in Hong Kong. It shows that Hong Kong is far from being a simple free market economy. In many areas, Hong Kong has highly de... -
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The Politics of Social Policy in Europe
Edited by Maurice Mullard, Simon Lee
The Politics of Social Policy in Europe analyses and critically assesses tensions and uncertainties which are haunting social policy provision throughout Europe in the 1990s. The expansion in social expenditures associated with the 1950s... -
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Education, Training and the Global Economy
David Ashton, Francis Green
Education, Training and the Global Economy takes issue with the notion that simply more or better education and training will inevitably bring economic success. -
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![The Politics of Social Welfare]()
The Politics of Social Welfare
Alex Waddan
The development of the welfare state has been a central concern across the political spectrum since the breakdown of the Keynesian economic model in the 1970s. The Politics of Social Welfare examines how the apparent consensus on social ... -
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Social Stratification
Edited by John Holmwood
This major new three volume reference collection includes both classic and contemporary papers and covers the main issues of stratification – status, class, occupation, gender, race and ethnicity. Each article represents a distinctiv... -
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The Sociology of Gender
Edited by Sarah Franklin
The Sociology of Gender combines 21 classic articles on this important topic with a broad-ranging editorial introduction. Emphasizing the categorical function of ‘gender’ as a social technology, this volume develops a unique approach to...
