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Transforming European Employment Policyby Ralf Rogowski; Robert Salais; Noel Whiteside
Edward Elgar Publishing 2012; US$ 40.00Since the mid 1990s, the focus of European employment and social policy has shifted from protection to promotion. This book provides a timely analysis of this new form of governance, and the new forms of policy delivery and audit which accompany it. The limitations of the current approach became particularly apparent during the financial crisis of 2008, and it has now reached a turning point. The book offers a new coherent European reform agenda that views easing transitions in employment and promoting the development of individual and collective capabilities as cornerstones. The contributing authors focus on vocational training, life-course policies, reflexive labour law and social insurance, from theoretical, empirical an practical perspectives.... more...
EU Social Policy in the 1990sby Gerda Falkner
Routledge 1998; US$ 170.00This book gives an analytical overview of schools of thought on European integration which offer useful insights into EU social politics. It finds that the EU social policy-making environment has become increasingly corporatist in the 1990s. more...
Social Conditions in Britain 1918-1939by Stephen Constantine
Routledge 1983; US$ 32.95Whereas one particular image of the interwar years portrays this period to contain depression, decay and deprivation, more recent works have shown it to be a time of more optimistic social conditions. This book discusses this much debated argument. more...
Britain in Europeby Tony Spybey
Routledge 1997; US$ 57.95This is the first introductory sociology text to look at Britain in terms of its geographical position within Europe and its political and economic situation as a member of the European Union. more...
New Great Transformation?by Christopher Bryant; Edmund Mokrzycki
Routledge 1994; US$ 61.95This timely book provides an essential guide to the social, political and economic upheavals in post-communist Europe more...
Tale Of Two Citiesby Karen Evans; Ian Taylor; Penny Fraser
Routledge 1996; US$ 44.95A Tale of Two Cities is a study of two major cities, Manchester and Sheffield. Drawing on the work of major theorists, the authors explore the everyday life, making contributions to our understanding of the defining activities of life. more...
Social Welfare in Britain 1885-1985by Rex Pope
Routledge 1986; US$ 39.95This collection of documents follows the same format as Pope and Hoyle?s British Economic Performance (1984), to provide a survey of the main developments in social welfare. Students of economic and social history and of social policy and administration are being required to do more and more work with original documents, and this collection is tailored to meet their needs. The primary sources are presented in two sections, covering the periods 1885-c. 1940 and c. 1940 to 1985. During the former, ideas on, and the scope of, welfare provision, broadened greatly. There was a sense of progress. Developments though were piecemeal. There was no conception of a ?Welfare State?. The second period begins with the changes associated with the assumption... more...
Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societiesby Martin Kohli; Alison Woodward
Routledge 2001; US$ 44.95This book constitutes a unique stock-taking of many of the central issues in European social integration and disintegration today. more...
New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europeby Catherine Jones
Routledge 1993; US$ 59.95New Perspectives on the Welfare State offers an appraisal of comparative social policy and applies it to our current uncertainties concerning European communities and European-North American and East Asian relationships. more...
Spoils of Freedomby Renata Salecl
Routledge 1994; US$ 43.95The Spoils of Freedom examines the rise of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies in post-socialist Eastern Europe. This provocative study asks what has become of the notions of democracy and human rights. more...









