Sociology and Social Policy

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...

Hardback (October 2007)

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New Developments in the Economics of Population Ageing

Edited by John Creedy, Ross Guest

This volume provides an important collection of recent papers on the macroeconomic effects of population ageing. The articles are focused into three categories which cover the main channels through which population ageing affects nationa...

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Economics of Family Law

Edited by Margaret F. Brinig

The articles within this book explore a range of family law issues and include discussions on a variety of topics including cohabitation, births outside marriage, courtship, premarital contracting, marriage and parenting. The volume incl...

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Reform and Leadership in the Public Sector

Joe L. Wallis, Brian E. Dollery, Linda McLoughlin

The authors provide a fresh and accessible multi-disciplinary perspective on public management reform in this study. The work includes a broad survey of the paradigms and patterns that have shaped and differentiated the reform process in...

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Trust and Crime in Information Societies

Edited by Robin Mansell, Brian S. Collins

This fascinating book gathers together an enviable range of experts from a variety of disciplines to study how trust and crime interact with new digital technologies. It provides a critical discussion on the prospects of the Internet and...

Paperback (2007)

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Hardback (2005)

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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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Patterns of Work in the Post-Fordist Era

Edited by Huw Beynon, Theo Nichols

Although the activities of large industrial and financial corporations dominate economies around the world, their impact on the distribution of employment and the use of new production techniques is much disputed. In this two-volume set,...

Hardback (2006)

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Redesigning the Welfare State

Hans-Werner Sinn, Christian Holzner, Wolfgang Meister, Wolfgang Ochel, Martin Werding

Redesigning the Welfare State argues that the current high level of unemployment in Germany not only creates a major challenge for the German welfare state, but is to a good extent caused by the way the country''s welfare system is desig...

Hardback (December 2006)

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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...

Hardback (2006)

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The Fordism of Ford and Modern Management

Edited by Huw Beynon, Theo Nichols

In an attempt to make sense of changes that have taken place in the workplace worldwide, especially since the last quarter of the twentieth century, the two concepts of Fordism and Post-Fordism are often invoked. These volumes perform a...

Hardback (2006)

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Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore

Johnny Sung

Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore explores the transformation of Singapore in the last three decades, going beyond the conventional explanations. The book argues that there was more to the transformation than a simple ‘right p...

Hardback (June 2006)

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