Sociology and Sociological Theory
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![Transparency in a New Global Order]()
Transparency in a New Global Order
Edited by Christina Garsten, Monica Lindh de Montoya
This book argues that transparency is a concept that has gained increasing currency and favour as an organizing principle and administrative goal in recent years. Calls for transparency have been directed towards states, markets, corpora...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Principles of Knowledge Creation]()
The Principles of Knowledge Creation
Edited by Bengt Gustavsson
The Principles of Knowledge Creation is an essential guide to the various methods of collating, explaining and understanding research data. It provides an overview of the possibilities and opportunities that exist in the research world, ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Workforce Development Networks in Rural Areas
Gary Paul Green
Rural areas face numerous challenges in building a high-wage, high-skilled workforce. In response to these obstacles, many regions have established workforce development networks that provide stronger linkages between employers, schools,...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Beyond the Regulation Approach]()
Beyond the Regulation Approach
Bob Jessop, Ngai-Ling Sum
This book presents a detailed and critical account of the regulation approach in institutional and evolutionary economics. Offering both a theoretical commentary and a range of empirical examples, it identifies the successes and failures...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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![Patterns of Work in the Post-Fordist Era]()
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,... -
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![The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment]()
The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment
Edited by Henk A. Becker, Frank Vanclay
This important Handbook presents an indispensable overview of the range of new methods and of the conceptual advances in Social Impact Assessment (SIA). Recent increased attention to social considerations has led to substantial developm...eBook:Find out more$62.36
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![The Fordism of Ford and Modern Management]()
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... -
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![Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore]()
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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![New Developments in Economic Sociology]()
New Developments in Economic Sociology
Edited by Richard Swedberg
Economic sociology has gone through an explosive development, both in the United States and in Europe, in recent years. These new developments are well represented in this work. Articles by key economic sociologists, such as Mark Granove... -
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Working Mothers in Europe
Edited by Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn, Anja Weckwert
Working Mothers in Europe combines comparative perspectives on social policies with analyses of mothers’ practices as evidenced in macro data and as explored in country based case studies. Social policy research has emphasised the impact...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![New Developments in Environmental Sociology]()
New Developments in Environmental Sociology
Edited by Michael R. Redclift, Graham Woodgate
This outstanding collection, which is a fully up to date companion to the title The Sociology of the Environment, published in 1995, represents a landmark in a field of academic research that is increasingly important for wider policy qu... -
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The Network Society
Edited by Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells – one of the world’s pre-eminent social scientists – has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book ana...eBook:Find out more$58.36
