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  • Governing Social Protection in the Long Term

    Social Policy and Employment Relations in Australia and New Zealand

    by Gaby Ramia ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present day, focusing on the relationship between employment relations and social policy. Utilising longstanding and more recent developments in historical institutionalist methodology, Ramia investigates the relationship between these two policy domains in the context of ... Read more

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  • International Student Policy in Australia

    The welfare dimension

    by Professor Gaby Ramia ...
    Australia’s higher education sector was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Student and staff numbers declined, and the government assistance afforded to other sectors was all but missing for universities. In a callous example of abandonment in an hour of need, Australian’s international students were similarly ignored by the federal government.International Student Policy in Australia: The welfare ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Research Handbook on Social Policy and Employment

    Edited by Gaby Ramia, Zoe Irving, Elke Heins, Ricardo Velázquez Leyer ...
    Series series Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare series
    This compelling Handbook explores how social policies have been adapted and remodelled in response to transformations in work and employment in the twenty-first century. It outlines the history of the welfare-work relationship, assesses the current state of the global workforce and provides theoretical and practical analyses of the work-employment-social policy relationship.Leading experts review ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Infrastructures of Informal Care

    Inequality, Exploitation, Emancipation

    by Jala Burton, Julia Cook, Morag Kelly, Sukhmani Khorana, Elise Klein, Amy Marshall, Greg Marston, Kathleen Mee, Emma Mitchell, Emma Power, Sally Robinson, Jordana Silverstein, Lisa Slater, Ben Spies-Butcher, Kylie Valentine, Ilan Wiesel, Amy Conley Wright ...
    Series series Transforming Care
    Care is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices.Taking seriously the darker potentialities of care as a relation of exploitation and domination, this edited collection interrogates the social and governance infrastructures that variously shape, expropriate, necessitate and unravel care at the ‘private’ ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    by Maria Sobolewska, Robert Ford ...
    Long-term social and demographic changes - and the conflicts they create - continue to transform British politics. In this accessible and authoritative book Sobolewska and Ford show how deep the roots of this polarisation and volatility run, drawing out decades of educational expansion and rising ethnic diversity as key drivers in the emergence of new divides within the British electorate over ... Read more

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  • Australia's Welfare Wars

    The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies

    by Philip Mendes ...
    In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia. ... Read more

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  • The Companion to Development Studies

    Edited by Vandana Desai, Rob Potter ...
    The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the ... Read more

    $162.99 CAD

  • Housing and Social Policy

    Contemporary Themes and Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Peter Somerville, Nigel Sprigings ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    This topical book transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively, interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study, addressing themes of residential experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability and professionalism/managerialism, which lie at the heart of the housing and social policy debate. Each chapter considers a specific social category - such as class, gender, or ... Read more

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  • Local and Regional Development

    by Andy Pike, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, John Tomaney ...
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  • Australia's Immigration Revolution

    by Andrew Markus, James Jupp, Peter McDonald ...
    In 2006 Australia's population was 20.7 million. It is projected to reach 23 million in 2014. What is driving this rapid population growth, and how is the Rudd government dealing with immigration at a time of recession?The diversification of the immigration intake over the last 50 years, from the British Isles to Europe and Asia, is widely recognised. But there is less understanding of the ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Boyer Lectures 2012

    The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom

    by Marcia Langton ...
    Professor Marcia Langton's 2012 Boyer Lectures discuss the dependency of Aboriginal businesses and not-for-profit corporations on the resources industry and their resultant vulnerability to economic downturns.'My aim with the 53rd Boyer Lectures has been to inject new ideas and new ways of thinking about the status of Indigenous people in Australia and about the impact of the mining boom in the ... Read more

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