Sociology and Social Policy
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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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Pensions, Savings and Capital Flows
Helmut Reisen
This book explores the international aspects of pension reform, private savings and volatile capital markets and clarifies how they relate to each other. Building the case for the pension-improving benefits of global asset diversificati... -
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The Welfare State in Europe
Edited by Marco Buti, Daniele Franco, Lucio R. Pench
This book analyses the main problems in the functioning of the welfare state and possible actions for its reform. Focusing on the European Union, it looks at the achievements of and challenges to the welfare state as we enter the 21st c...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalization and the Welfare State
Ramesh Mishra
Globalization and the Welfare State is highly accessible and will be welcomed by students and scholars of social policy, social work, political science and sociology as well as by policymakers in international organizations and government. -
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The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia
Simon Clarke
The Russian labour market has been hailed by some economists as being ‘perfectly flexible’ because Russia has achieved enormous employment restructuring with minimal unemployment, and by others as plagued by rigidities since pay structur... -
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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...
