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  • The Marketization of Employment Services

    The Dilemmas of Europe's Work-first Welfare States

    by Ian Greer, Karen N. Breidahl, Matthias Knuth, Flemming Larsen ...
    Across Europe, market mechanisms are spreading into areas where they did not exist before. In public administration, market governance is displacing other ways of coordinating public services. In social policy, the welfare state is retreating from its historic task of protecting citizens from the discipline of the market. In industrial relations, labor and management are negotiating with an eye to ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Work and the Welfare State

    Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics

    by Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Gregory Marston, Michael Lipsky, Flemming Larsen, Susan Lambert, Julia Henly, Joe Soss, Sanford Schram, Richard Fording0, Celeste Watkins-Hayes1, Martin Brussig2, Matthias Knuth3, Michael Adler4, Vicki Lens5, Rik van Berkel6 ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands.An international group of scholars contribute ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

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  • Basic Income

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    by Mr Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala, Prof. Guy Standing, Soumya Kapoor Mehta ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional ... Read more

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  • Barack Obama: His Love and Dream for America

    A Presidency Rising Above Conflicts and Challenges

    by Raymond Sturgis ...
    Here we are in the twenty-first century and one man named; Barack Obama has changed the meaning of democracy and freedom for a lifetime. Unfortunately, like progress and freedom, negative people want to question Barack Obama his citizenship, competence and duty to serve as commander in chief. But those naysayers do not question their forefathers who were not citizens but established the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics

    Edited by Sherry Glied, Peter C. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine. The chapters stress the direct impact of health economics reasoning on policy and practice, offering readers an introduction to the potential reach of the ... Read more

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  • Private Profits versus Public Policy

    The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State

    by Joel Lexchin ...
    The widespread condemnation of drastic price increases on life-saving drugs highlights our growing dependency on and vulnerability to international pharmaceutical conglomerates. However, aren’t the interests of the public supposed to supersede the pursuit of private profit?In his new work, Private Profits versus Public Policy, Joel Lexchin addresses this question as he examines how public policy ... Read more

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    Opportunities and Challenges

    by Georgia Daleure ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book combines classic and recent studies investigating challenges to Emiratization – full employment of Emirati nationals who make up only about 10% of the total workforce – in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The book offers a comprehensive overview of the events leading to the country’s rapid growth and development, as well as important social and cultural issues arising as the country ... Read more

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  • Child Trafficking, Youth Labour Mobility and the Politics of Protection

    by Neil Howard ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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  • The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance

    Edited by E. Kuhlmann, R. Blank, I. Bourgeault, C. Wendt ...
    Starting with more general issues of healthcare policy and governance in a global perspective and using the lens of national case studies of healthcare reform, this handbook addresses key themes in the debates over changing healthcare policy. ... Read more

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    Comparing OECD Countries

    by H. Rothgang, M. Cacace, Lorraine Frisina, Simone Grimmeisen, Achim Schmid, C. Wendt ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades. Combining cross-sectional studies on healthcare financing, provision and policy values with in-depth country studies of Britain, Germany and the USA, this volume is a thorough examination of the convergence toward hybrid forms of healthcare systems. ... Read more

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  • Transnational Activism, Global Labor Governance, and China

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