Comparative Social Policy
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Nordic Earner-Carer Politics
Anne Lise Ellingsæter
This insightful book provides a comprehensive comparative historical analysis of the formation and evolution of Nordic earner-carer policies over five decades. Spanning parental leave, father quotas, daycare services, and cash for childc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration
Edited by Giuseppe Sciortino, Martina Cvajner, Peter J. Kivisto
Adeptly navigating one of the most pressing issues on the current global agenda, this topical Research Handbook provides a comprehensive and research-based exploration of the sociology of migration. As well as highlighting the field’s ac...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Social Reformism 2.0
Maurizio Ferrera, Joan Miró, Stefano Ronchi
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Automation, digitalisation, the post-industrial transition and climate change are creating n...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Welfare Chauvinism in Europe
Gianna M. Eick
The redistribution of welfare resources to migrants continues to polarise society. Not only politicians from the radical right but also from more mainstream parties are capitalising on the idea of ‘welfare for our kind’, or welfare chauv...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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School-to-Work Transition in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Dominik Buttler, Maciej Ławrynowicz, Piotr Michoń
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Incisive and forward-thinking in its approach, this prescient book investigates the conditio...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies
Edited by Daniel Clegg, Niccolo Durazzi
Bringing together contributions from leading labour market policy scholars from across the globe, this state-of-the-art Handbook offers extensive and compelling analyses of labour market policy in advanced democracies. This title contai...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South
Edited by Leila Patel, Sophie Plagerson, Isaac Chinyoka
This cutting-edge Handbook argues for social protection to be situated in a wider system of social welfare and development programmes for low- and middle-income countries. Focusing on the role of citizens and communities in enhancing hum...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Welfare States in the 21st Century
Ian Greener
On the 80th anniversary of Beveridge’s report on the ‘Five Giants’ confronting societal progress in the 1940s, this innovative book examines the ‘New Giants’ confronting us today: inequality, preventable mortality, the crisis of democrac...eBook:Find out more$27.96
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Teaching Social Work
Neil Thompson
There are particular challenges involved in teaching social work. As with other professional disciplines, it is not simply a matter of passing on the key elements of the knowledge base; there is also the need to equip students to be able...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Care Homes in a Turbulent Era
Edited by Pat Armstrong, Susan Braedley
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This thoughtful book provides a refreshing, comparative perspective on the future of care ho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Healthcare and Elderly Care in Europe
Thomas Bahle, Mareike Ariaans, Katharina Koch, Claus Wendt
Given growing caseloads, limited funding and staff shortages, the need for coordination in healthcare and elderly care is at an all-time high. This timely book conducts a cross-national analysis of coordination problems in healthcare and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Sociological Science
Edited by Klarita Gërxhani, Nan D. de Graaf, Werner Raub
The Handbook of Sociological Science offers a refreshing, integrated perspective on research programs and ongoing developments in sociological science. It highlights key shared theoretical and methodological features, thereby contributin...eBook:Find out more$12.00