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Ageing Matters
By: Doling, John (ed.); Finer, Catherine Jones (ed.); Maltby, Tony (ed.)
Published by: Ashgate
This book is the first to examine in detail the experiences and prospects of population ageing in those Asian countries with the highest GDP per capita. The authors pose the question to what extent Asia and ‘old Europe’ can learn from each other in terms of policy planning.
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Price: $120.00
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Agents of the Welfare State
By: Jewell, C.
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.
This book shows how responsiveness in European welfare programs is institutionalized through nationally distinct legal foundations, professional traditions, and resource networks, while revealing how resource scarcities threaten to erode these capabilities.
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Price: $69.95
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Ages, Generations and the Social Contract
By: Veron, Jacques (ed.); Pennec, Sophie (ed.); Legare, Jacques (ed.)
Published by: Springer
Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and collective solidarity adapting in this context of longer life spans, low fertility, and work that is simultaneously scarce and abundant? The welfare states are currently facing three main challenges: ensure satisfactory living conditions for the elderly without increasing the cost burden on the active population, reduce social inequality, and maintain equity between successive generations. In this book, researchers from different countries compare their experiences and offer contrasting views on the future of social protection. They consider the theoretical aspects of the intergenerational debate, relations between generations within the family, the living standards of elderly people, and the question of social time.
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Price: $169.00
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Aging in the United States and Japan
By: Noguchi, Yukio (ed.); Wise, David (ed.)
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Japanese and American economists assess the present economic status of the elderly in the United States and Japan, and consider the impact of an aging population on the economies of the two countries. With essays on labor force participation and retirement, housing equity and the economic status of the elderly, budget implications of an aging population, and financing social security and health care in the 1990s, this volume covers a broad spectrum of issues related to the economics of aging. Among the book's findings are that workers are retiring at an increasingly earlier age in both countries and that, as the populations age, baby boomers in the United States will face diminishing financial resources as the ratio of retirees to workers sharply increases. The result of a joint venture between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, this book complements Housing Markets in the United States and Japan (1994) by integrating research on housing markets with economic issues of the aged in the United States and Japan.
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Price: $55.00
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Agrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500-1860
By: Patriquin, Larry
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.
This book examines the evolution of public assistance for the poor in England from the late medieval era to the Industrial Revolution. Placing poor relief in the context of the unique class relations of agrarian capitalism, it considers how and why relief in England in the early modern period was distinct.
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Price: $74.95
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Alternatives for Welfare Policy
By: Andersen, Torben M.; Molander, Per
Published by: Cambridge University Press
An authoritative and comprehensive survey of key issues for welfare policy in an age of globalisation and ageing populations. Drawing on comparative OECD data and Scandinavian case studies, the authors analyse challenges to the traditional public sector welfare state and explore principal policy options open to governments in advanced economies.
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Price: $35.00
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Alternatives to Exclusion from School
By: Munn, Pamela; Lloyd, Gwynedd; Cullen, Mairi Ann
Published by: Sage Publications, Ltd (UK)
`.. an excellent volume, one which should become essential reading for students of education, especially those at the start of their careers. Incidentally, not only is the book concise; unusually for a jointly-authored book it is also hard to see the joins; it really does read well' - Scottish Affairs. `An interesting comparison of pairs of schools which differed in the extent to which they excluded, the authors found several differences: the schools' views on what education is all about
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Price: $32.95
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America's Child Care Problem
By: Bergmann, Barbara R.; Helburn, Suzanne W.
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
This title examines the views of key players in all facets of the child care industry: CEOs, politicians, policy advocates, foundation directors, child care providers, and parents and offers specific advice and guidelines for parents to use when selecting care.
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America's Longest War: Rethinking Our Tragic Crusade against Drugs
By: Duke, Stephen B.; Gross, Albert C.
Published by: eReads
America's war on drugs. It makes headlines, tops political agendas and provokes powerful emotions. But is it really worth it? That’s the question posed by Steven Duke and Albert Gross in this groundbreaking book. They argue that America’s biggest victories in the war on drugs are the erosion of our constitutional rights, the waste of billions of dollars and an overwhelmed court system. After careful research and thought, they make a strong case for the legalization of drugs. It’s a radical idea, but has its time come?
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Price: $12.99
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American Dream
By: Deparle, Jason
Published by: Penguin Books (USA)
An acclaimed New York Times reporter offers the definitive look at the collision between social policy and the gritty reality of post-welfare America. In this definitive work, two-time Pulitzer finalist Jason DeParle cuts between the mean streets of Milwaukee and the corridors of Washington to produce a masterpiece of literary journalism. At the heart of the story are three cousins whose different lives follow similar trajectories. Leaving welfare, Angie puts her heart in her work. Jewell bets on an imprisoned man. Opal guards a tragic secret that threatens her kids and her life. DeParle traces their family history back six generations to slavery and weaves poor people, politicians, reformers, and rogues into a spellbinding epic. With a vivid sense of humanity, DeParle demonstrates that although we live in a country where anyone can make it, generation after generation some families don’t. To read American Dream is to understand why.
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Price: $16.00
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