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Télécharger le livre :  Eldercare Work in Contemporary China
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Eldercare Work in Contemporary China


Zhe Yan


This book gives voice to an indispensable yet often overlooked group of care workers in China’s eldercare industry. Drawing on rich, first-hand accounts from frontline care workers and interwoven with a wealth of sociological insights, the author offers a critical...

Parution : 2025-08-29
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Assistance to Ukrainian War Refugees in Central Europe (2022-2024)
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Assistance to Ukrainian War Refugees in Central Europe (2022-2024)


Malgorzata Dziekonska , Kamil Luczaj


This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the unprecedented situation following the later stages of the war in Ukraine in 2022. It explores the experiences of millions of Ukrainians who sought refuge in neighboring countries and examines the wide-ranging support they...

Parution : 2025-08-18
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of European Food Aid Policy from Delors to von der Leyen
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The Politics of European Food Aid Policy from Delors to von der Leyen


Ilaria Madama


This book provides a theoretically informed, empirically grounded account of the origin, expansion, and institutionalization of the EU's action against food poverty and severe material deprivation. In doing so, the analysis spans more than three decades, from the...

Parution : 2025-06-19
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Cohousing in Italy
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Cohousing in Italy


Manuela Maggio


This book investigates cohousing in Italy, a housing model that is both underused and often overlooked. By engaging cohousers’ stories and applying a sociological lens, it brings to light their lived experiences while tracing the history and evolution of this...

Parution : 2025-02-24
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Societal Value of Welfare Politics, Policies and Services
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Societal Value of Welfare Politics, Policies and Services


Tanja Klenk , Mirko Noordegraaf , Elisabetta Notarnicola , Karsten Vrangbæk


Welfare state governance is about tackling social issues, empowering citizens, and adding societal value. It is also about improving public health and quality of life, alleviating inequality, and reducing social polarization. Bringing together researchers from around...

Parution : 2024-12-26
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Caring for the Socially Marginalised in Interwar Europe, 1919–1939
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Caring for the Socially Marginalised in Interwar Europe, 1919–1939


Michele Mioni , Stefano Petrungaro


This book investigates the mixed economy of welfare that assisted socially marginalised people in interwar Europe, namely the state, local authorities, and a combination of voluntary and informal actors. While literature has traditionally emphasised the key role of the...

Parution : 2024-11-07
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Neoliberal Crises and the Academisation of the English School System
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Neoliberal Crises and the Academisation of the English School System


Ian Dewes


This book examines the impact of neoliberalism on the academisation of the English school system. The growth of multi-academy trusts (MATs) has been a significant change in the English educational landscape. While some schools have been forced to join MATs, many of them...

Parution : 2024-06-17
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Action on Poverty in the UK
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Action on Poverty in the UK


Collectif


This book tackles poverty and policy issues in the UK by discussing successful projects and practices, across lots of short chapters. The first section provides a brief history overview of poverty in the UK over the past two hundred years and discusses the question of...

Parution : 2023-09-16
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Privatization of Early Childhood Education and Care in Nordic Countries
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Privatization of Early Childhood Education and Care in Nordic Countries


Steinunn Hrafnsdóttir , Maiju Paananen , Karl Henrik Sivesind , Håkon Solbu Trætteberg


This book explores the increasing role of private providers in early childhood education and care (ECEC) as they become a core part of the Nordic welfare model—one that once rejected for-profit involvement in public welfare. Within this context, ECEC has become the key...

Parution : 2023-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Men, Families, and Poverty
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Men, Families, and Poverty


Kahryn Hughes , Anna Tarrant


This book develops a new sociology of the intergenerational and longitudinal dynamics of men’s family participation in relation to their trajectories through poverty. By addressing the ostensible absence of men from low-income families in existing literature and policy,...

Parution : 2023-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Failure of the Neo-Liberal Approach to Poverty
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The Failure of the Neo-Liberal Approach to Poverty


Brian Caterino


This book examines the foundation and progress of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI). Poverty has once again become a major issue in American cities, and nowhere more so than Rochester, which has one of the highest rates of poverty in the...

Parution : 2022-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Welfare State System and Common Security
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The Welfare State System and Common Security


B. Vivekanandan


This book argues that the welfare state system should be adopted globally, not only for the purpose of achieving equality and justice within nations, but also for security between states. Using Finland, Sweden and Canada as case studies, it theorises that the...

Parution : 2022-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States
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Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States


Lise Widding Isaksen , Lena Näre


This edited volume discusses and analyses the impact of neoliberal policies and ideologies on public and private care practices in Nordic, Central, and East European welfare states. Through new conceptualizations of care practices, chapters take the reader directly into...

Parution : 2022-03-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Voluntary and Public Sector Collaboration in Scandinavia
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Voluntary and Public Sector Collaboration in Scandinavia


Bjarne Ibsen


In thirteen chapters, the contributors to this volume analyse the different dimensions of a new form of collaboration, termed collective co-production, in the Scandinavian countries.   It is a characteristic of the Scandinavian countries – Sweden, Norway and...

Parution : 2021-09-30
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The National Disability Insurance Scheme
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The National Disability Insurance Scheme


Mhairi Cowden , Claire Mccullagh


The National Disability Insurance Scheme (known commonly as the NDIS) was introduced as a radical new way of funding disability services in Australia. It is a rare moment in politics and policy making that an idea as revolutionary, ambitious and expensive as the NDIS...

Parution : 2021-08-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Couples' Transitions to Parenthood
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Couples' Transitions to Parenthood


Charlotte Faircloth


This book argues that new parents are caught in an uncomfortable crossfire between two competing discourses: those around ideal relationships and those around ideal parenting. The author suggests that parents are pressured to be equal partners while also being asked to...

Parution : 2021-07-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe
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The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe


Collectif


This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main...

Parution : 2021-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dynamics of Welfare Markets
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The Dynamics of Welfare Markets


Clémence Ledoux , Karen Shire , Franca Van Hooren


This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets. It maps the common ground and uncovers...

Parution : 2021-02-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe
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Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe


Feyzi Baban , Kim Rygiel


This edited collection brings together academics, artists and members of civil society organizations to engage in a discussion about the ideas of living with others, through concepts such as cosmopolitanism, solidarity, and conviviality, and the practices of doing so....

Parution : 2020-11-04
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Political Economy of Policy Ideas
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The Political Economy of Policy Ideas


Gemma Scalise


In 2008, the European Commission relaunched the policy idea of active inclusion, with the aim of facilitating the integration of people into sustainable and quality employment. Over ten years later, and in the aftermath of one of the most trying periods in Europe’s...

Parution : 2020-10-15
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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