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  • Local Government and the Territorial Constitution

    Social Justice and Local Finances in the UK

    by Rebecca Amor, Koldo Casla, Matt Clement, Bernard Dom, Andrew Lane, Andre Lino, Stuart MacLennan, Karl Mason, Duncan Morrow, Tom Mullen, Gavan Rafferty, Mohammad Sabuj, John Stanton, Ileana Steccolini ...
    Series series Bristol Studies in Law and Social Justice
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.As devolution transforms governance across the UK, local authorities face unprecedented challenges in delivering services whilst managing severe budgetary constraints. This book investigates and provides insights into how local governments operate within Britain's evolving constitutional framework.This comprehensive edited collection ... Read more

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    How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes

    by Claire Ainsley ...
    Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, yet no political party today can confidently articulate their interests. So who is now working class and how do political parties gain their support ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Act now

    A vision for a better future and a new social contract

    by Common Sense Policy Group, Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson, Danny Dorling ...
    An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents ‘solutions’ that only worsen the situation, driving a downward cycle in which desperation leads to despair. But the left is also to blame: progressive politicians have consistently failed to recognise both the urgency of people’s need and their receptiveness to new ... Read more

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  • Breadline Britain

    The Rise of Mass Poverty

    by Stewart Lansley, Joanna Mack ...
    Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs unmet.Based on exclusive access to the largest ever survey of poverty in the UK, and its predecessor surveys in the 1980s and 1990s, Stewart ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Knowledge Corrupters

    Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life

    by Colin Crouch ...
    In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy.Crouch shows that executives in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Violence of Austerity

    Edited by Vickie Cooper, David Whyte ...
    Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain.In The Violence of Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices of campaigners and academics including Danny Dorling, Mary O'Hara and Rizwaan Sabir to show that rather than stimulating economic growth, austerity policies have led to a dismantling of the social systems ... Read more

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  • Irish Business and Society

    Governing, Participating and Transforming in the 21st Century

    Edited by John Hogan, Paul F. Donnelly, Brendan K. O'Rourke ...
    A collection of stimulating essays exploring the wide-ranging debates surrounding the relationship between business and society in 21st century Ireland.Wide-ranging, diverse and thought-provoking contributions from leading business researchers, economists, sociologists and political scientists from Ireland and abroad probe five central themes: the making and unmaking of the Celtic Tiger; ... Read more

    $22.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncomfortably Off

    Why Addressing Inequality Matters, Even for High Earners

    by Marcos González Hernando, Gerry Mitchell ...
    In highly unequal societies such as the UK, where the top 10% take a higher share of disposable income than in most other European countries, many feel resentment towards high earners. On paper, they are doing well, but inequality isn’t even working for them.Uncomfortably Off reveals that those generally considered to be the most affluent feel anxious about the future and struggle to keep up, or ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Student's Companion to Social Policy

    by Pete Alcock, Tina Haux, Vikki McCall, Margaret May ...
    The new edition of the bestselling guide to the issues students will encounter in the study of social policy in both the UK and abroadFully updated and expanded, the sixth edition of The Student’s Companion to Social Policy remains the most accessible and comprehensive review of UK and comparative social policy available for undergraduate students. Written and edited by leading experts in the ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain

    Class Struggle, Labour Market Restructuring and Welfare Reform

    by Jay Wiggan ...
    This book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023. It explains how this remaking of policy and governance shaped, and was shaped by, the transformation of the labour market and power of claimants and workers.Advancing a class-centred explanation, the text situates contemporary working age active labour market ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Australian Workplace Relations

    Edited by Richard Gough, Julian Teicher, Peter Holland ...
    Australian Workplace Relations explains the defining themes in workplace relations in the twenty-first century. It explores issues relating to employee voice, declining trade union membership, occupational health, disadvantaged workers and surveillance in the workplace. The treatment of each topic is placed in both a national and an international context. The book examines the effects on ... Read more

    $127.99 CAD

  • Why We Need Welfare

    Collective Action for the Common Good

    by Pete Alcock ...
    What is welfare? Why is it a key part of the ‘common good’ for all? And how should we go about providing it?Pete Alcock, a well-respected expert, explains the challenges that collective welfare faces, and explores the complexities involved in delivering it, including debates about who benefits from welfare and how and where it is delivered. His primary focus is on the UK, including the problems of ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD