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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jasmine lorenzini”
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  • Contention in Times of Crisis

    Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries

    Edited by Hanspeter Kriesi, Jasmine Lorenzini, Bruno Wüest, Silja Hausermann ...
    This is the first comprehensive overview of the waves of protest mobilization that spread across Europe in the wake of the Great Recession. Documenting the extent of these protests in a study covering thirty countries, including the issues they addressed and the degree to which they replicated each other, this book maps the prevalence and nature of protest across Europe, and explains the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Jobless Citizens

    Political Engagement of the Young Unemployed

    by Marco Giugni, Jasmine Lorenzini ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of socioeconomic, relational, psychological, and institutional resources for the political engagement of unemployed youth. The book ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Young People and Long-Term Unemployment

    Personal, Social, and Political Effects

    by Marco Giugni, Jasmine Lorenzini, Manlio Cinalli, Christian Lahusen, Simone Baglioni ...
    Series series Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
    Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18–34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy).Adopting a multidimensional theoretical framework aiming to bring together insights based on the contextual (macro), organizational ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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    The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female

    by Melissa Benn ...
    We have reached a tricky crossroads in modern women's lives and our collective daughters are bearing the brunt of some intolerable pressures. Although feminism has made great strides forward since our mothers' and grandmothers' day, many of the key issues - equality of pay, equality in the home, representation at senior level in the private, public and political sectors - remain to be tackled. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Making Sense of Fatherhood

    Gender, Caring and Work

    by Tina Miller ...
    As family and work demands become more complex, who is left holding the baby? Tina Miller explores men's experiences of fatherhood and provides unique insights into paternal caring, changing masculinities and men's relations to paid work. She focuses on the narratives of a group of men as they first anticipate and then experience fatherhood for the first time. Her original, longitudinal research ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Migrant Citizenship from Below

    Family, Domestic Work, and Social Activism in Irregular Migration

    by K. Shinozaki ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schönberg, Germany. Shinozaki examines their irregular migrant citizenship status from 'above', which is produced by complex interactions between Germany's welfare, care, and migration regimes and the Philippines' gendered politics of overseas employment. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Paid Work Beyond Pension Age

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Simone Scherger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In many countries, the number of people working beyond pension age is increasing. This volume investigates this trend in seven different countries, examining the contexts of this development and the consequences of the shifting relationship between work and retirement. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Work, Family Policies and Transitions to Adulthood in Europe

    Edited by T. Knijn ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring questions such as what does it mean to be a young adult in Europe today and what social policies help them to combine work and family life? ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Unequal Time

    Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules

    by Dan Clawson, Naomi Gerstel ...
    Life is unpredictable. Control over one’s time is a crucial resource for managing that unpredictability, keeping a job, and raising a family. But the ability to control one’s time, much like one’s income, is determined to a significant degree by both gender and class. In Unequal Time, sociologists Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel explore the ways in which social inequalities permeate the workplace, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Crisis at Work

    Identity and the End of Career

    by J. Potter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how we make sense of ourselves when work is precarious and intrinsically alienating. We know little about how this experience of work impacts the lives of men and women, and less about the way individuals understand themselves in the face of institutions and organizations from which they feel marginalized. Based on the narratives of men and women who underwent extraordinary work ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract

    Working and Living in Contingency

    Edited by Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced dimensions. ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • In the Blood

    Understanding America's Farm Families

    by Robert Wuthnow ...
    A vivid and moving portrait of America's farm familiesFarming is essential to the American economy and our daily lives, yet few of us have much contact with farmers except through the food we eat. Who are America's farmers? Why is farming important to them? How are they coping with dramatic changes to their way of life? In the Blood paints a vivid and moving portrait of America’s farm families, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD