Sociology and Social Policy
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![The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism]()
The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism
Edited by Laura Oso , Natalia Ribas-Mateos
The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism represents a state-of-the-art review of the critical importance of the links between gender and migration in a globalising world. It draws on original, largely field-ba...eBook:Find out more$65.56
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![The Economic Crisis and Occupational Stress]()
The Economic Crisis and Occupational Stress
Ritsa Fotinatos-Ventouratos, Cary Cooper
The global economic crisis of 2008 caused the collapse of the world’s financial institutions, large-scale unemployment, the devaluing of housing stocks leading to mortgage defaults and left many countries in debt, unable to meet their fi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe]()
Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe
Colin Crouch
In this illuminating book Colin Crouch examines the diverse approaches presented by advanced societies in their attempts to resolve a central dilemma of a capitalist economy: the need to combine buoyant mass consumption with insecure wor...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Labour Markets, Institutions and Inequality]()
Labour Markets, Institutions and Inequality
编辑亚宁e Berg
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. Labour market institutions, including collective bargaining, the regulation of employment co...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![临时工作在一个不断变化的劳动力市场]()
临时工作在一个不断变化的劳动力市场
Edited by Christina Garsten, Jessica Lindvert, Renita Thedvall
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, people who had never before had cause to worry about losing their jobs entered the ranks of the unemployed for the first time. In Sweden, the welfare state has been radically challenged an...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Handbook on the Economics of Reciprocity and Social Enterprise]()
Handbook on the Economics of Reciprocity and Social Enterprise
Edited by Luigino Bruni, Stefano Zamagni
The recent era of economic turbulence has generated a growing enthusiasm for an increase in new and original economic insights based around the concepts of reciprocity and social enterprise. This stimulating and thought-provoking Handboo...eBook:Find out more$60.76
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Coping with Excess
Edited by Barbara Czarniawska, Orvar Löfgren
What does a stockbroker in Istanbul navigating the rush of incoming trading figures have in common with a mother in Stockholm trying to organize a growing pile of baby clothes? They are both coping with excess or overflow. This book expl...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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![Gender, Development and Disasters]()
Gender, Development and Disasters
Sarah Bradshaw
Sarah Bradshaw critically examines key notions, such as gender, vulnerability, risk, and humanitarianism, underpinning development and disaster discourse. Case studies are used to demonstrate how disasters are experienced individually an...eBook:Find out more$28.76
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![The Political Economy of Status]()
The Political Economy of Status
Theodore Koutsobinas
In this timely book Theodore Koutsobinas explores the system of status markets and their social effects including inequality. He explains how media fascination with superstars and luxury consumption goods amplify positional concerns for ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Social Policy in a Developing World]()
Social Policy in a Developing World
Edited by Rebecca Surender, Robert Walker
This volume provides a critical analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing social protection systems in the global south, and examines current strategies for addressing poverty and welfare needs in the region. In particular, the...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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![Juridification and Social Citizenship in the Welfare State]()
Juridification and Social Citizenship in the Welfare State
Edited by Henriette Sinding Aasen, Siri Gloppen, Anne-Mette Magnussen, Even Nilssen
The concept of juridification refers to a diverse set of processes involving shifts towards more detailed legal regulation, regulations of new areas, and conflicts and problems increasingly being framed in legal and rights-oriented terms...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Political Economy of Ageing and Later Life]()
The Political Economy of Ageing and Later Life
Edited by Alan Walker, Liam Foster
This timely new collection presents the most important and influential articles and papers on ageing and later life of the past half century. The editors examine policy creation and implementation, practice and critical gerontology inclu...
