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Télécharger le livre :  Welfare Beyond the Welfare State
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Welfare Beyond the Welfare State


Felix Behling


This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day. Tracing the history of employee welfare, this comparative study reveals new issues beyond the dominant focus on the welfare state, showing that...

Parution : 2018-01-12
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Care and Migration in East Asia
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Gender, Care and Migration in East Asia


Raymond K.H. Chan , Reiko Ogawa , Akiko S. Oishi , Lih-Rong Wang


This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia. Bridging the key topics of migration and gendered cared work through cross country ...

Parution : 2017-12-12
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below
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Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below


Bernhard Ebbinghaus , Elias Naumann


Studying the political economy of welfare state reform, this edited collection focuses on the role of public opinion and organized interests in respect to policy change. It highlights that welfare states are hard pressed to reform in order to cope with ongoing...

Parution : 2017-11-24
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Paris Agreement
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The Paris Agreement


Judith Blau


This book discusses the immediate and severe threat posed by global climate change and the various obstacles that stand in the way of action. Judith Blau presents scientific evidence relevant to The Paris Agreement (COP-21): an international treaty that promises to...

Parution : 2017-03-21
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Welfare State Transformations and Inequality in OECD Countries
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Welfare State Transformations and Inequality in OECD Countries


Tonia Bieber , Stephan Leibfried , Melike Wulfgramm


This book analyzes how recent welfare state transformations across advanced democracies have shaped social and economic disparities. The authors observe a trend from a compensatory paradigm towards supply oriented social policy, and investigate how this phenomenon is...

Parution : 2017-03-07
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap
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Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap


Katarzyna Suwada


This book provides an account of fatherhood and changing parental roles in Sweden and Poland. It uses a comparative perspective to show what men understand a father’s role to be, and how they seek to live up to it. Fathering, the author argues, is a social phenomenon...

Parution : 2017-02-23
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Women's Homelessness in Europe
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Women's Homelessness in Europe


Joanne Bretherton , Paula Mayock


This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women’s homelessness. Drawing together work from Europe’s leading homelessness scholars, it presents a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of...

Parution : 2017-02-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Property, Family and the Irish Welfare State
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Property, Family and the Irish Welfare State


Michelle Norris


This book examines the long-term development of the Irish welfare state since the late nineteenth century. It contests the consensus view that Ireland, like other Anglophone countries, has historically operated a liberal welfare regime which forces households to...

Parution : 2016-11-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sovereign Debt Crisis, the EU and Welfare State Reform
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The Sovereign Debt Crisis, the EU and Welfare State Reform


Caroline De La Porte , Elke Heins


This book offers a much-needed analysis of how the European Union (EU) has affected welfare state reforms in the Member States most severely hit by the 2008 economic crisis. Bringing together leading European social policy researchers, it shows that the EU’s...

Parution : 2016-08-09
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems
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Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems


Håkan Johansson , Alexandru Panican


This book analyzes national anti-poverty measures at a local level via a set of unique and up-to-date empirical studies of minimum income support schemes and activation measures in five European cities. In examining this 'local welfare system' approach, it investigates...

Parution : 2016-07-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Affective Equality
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Affective Equality


J. Baker , K. Lynch , M. Lyons


This groundbreaking book provides a new perspective on equality by highlighting and exploring affective equality, the aspect of equality concerned with relationships of love, care and solidarity. Drawing on studies of intimate caring, or 'love labouring', it reveals the...

Parution : 2016-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Irregular Migration and Invisible Welfare
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Irregular Migration and Invisible Welfare


M. Ambrosini


Focusing on care workers for the elderly, this book examines the paradoxical position of irregular migrants in European society, who are often labelled as 'illegal' residents but who in fact provide much needed, essential support to welfare systems.

Parution : 2016-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Transformation of Care in European Societies
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The Transformation of Care in European Societies


Margarita Leon


This book aims to explore the nature and extent of the 'care deficit' problem in European societies and how effective the different care systems are in dealing with these problems through policy innovation. It combines theoretical and conceptual debates, cross-national...

Parution : 2016-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Professionalism, Managerialism and Reform in Higher Education and the Health Services
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Professionalism, Managerialism and Reform in Higher Education and the Health Services


Teresa Carvalho , Rui Santiago


Over the past three decades, professions across the European Union have faced significant and radical challenges. This book analyses three professional groups involved in the academic and health sectors and how they are affected by different national Welfare State...

Parution : 2016-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China
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Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China


Lin Chen


With an increasing number of elders moving into nursing homes, the shift from family to nursing home care calls for an exploration of caregiving decision-making in urban China. This study examines how a rapidly growing aging population, the one-child policy, and...

Parution : 2016-04-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Producing Health Policy
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Producing Health Policy


Jo Maybin


In this book Jo Maybin draws on rare access to the inner-workings of England's Department of Health to explore what kinds of knowledge civil servants use when developing policy, how they use it and why. Combining ethnographic data with insights from psychology,...

Parution : 2016-04-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Doing Time
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Doing Time


Roger Matthews


The new edition of Doing Time brings this widely recognized book up-to-date and provides an accessible and informed discussion of current debates around prisons and penal policy. Drawing on a range of international material the book provides a critical sociological...

Parution : 2016-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform
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The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform


Greggor Mattson


The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globalization translates into policies to recognize sex workers in some countries, punish prostitutes' clients in others, and...

Parution : 2016-01-28
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Volunteering and Society in the 21st Century
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Volunteering and Society in the 21st Century


S. Howlett , A. Ellis Paine , C. Rochester


Expectations about the contribution that volunteering can make are at a new high. This book aims to meet this interest by bringing together in one volume what is known about the phenomenon of volunteering; the principles and practice of involving volunteers, and the...

Parution : 2016-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Welfare Trait
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The Welfare Trait


Adam Perkins


The welfare state has a problem: each generation living under its protection has lower work motivation than the previous one. In order to fix this problem we need to understand its causes, lest the welfare state ends up undermining its own economic and social...

Parution : 2016-01-26
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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