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  • Work, Unemployment and Leisure

    by Rosemary Deem ...
    Series series Society Now
    Rosemary Deem provides students with a concise introduction to a range of issues and debates surrounding work, unemployment and leisure in contemporary societies. Beginning with an examination of the social and historical factors which have shaped work and leisure patterns in modern Britain, she shows how the boundaries between them are culturally constructed and change over time. As well as ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Women & Schooling

    by Rosemary Deem ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book begins with an analysis of the gradual extension of educational opportunities for women since the nineteenth century, with special attention given to the period since 1944. There is careful exploration of the interaction between the family and the school, and an examination of their role as institutions which help to maintain the existing class relations, sexual division of labour and ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Practice and Progress

    British Sociology 1950-1980

    Edited by Philip Abrams, Rosemary Deem, Janet Finch, Paul Rock ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association
    Originally published in 1981 Practice and Progress is a collection examining the changes that have occurred in the theories, methodologies and practices of sociology, in the institutional and educational setting of the subject, and in British society. The themes pursued include the professionalization of sociology its development and standing in the universities; the impact on it of Marxism and ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Schooling for Women's Work

    Edited by Rosemary Deem ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This collection of original papers shows how women in Britain are still being discriminated against during schooling, despite the existence of legislation prohibiting such discrimination and despite apparent concern with promoting equality between the sexes in education. Focusing on the current situation and experiences of women in education and their subsequent entry to, and experiences of, the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Developing Public Service Leaders

    Elite orchestration, change agency, leaderism, and neoliberalization

    by Mike Wallace, Michael Reed, Dermot O'Reilly, Michael Tomlinson, Jonathan Morris, Rosemary Deem ...
    Developing Public Service Leaders examines why and how governments and representative bodies in public service organizations have mounted major interventions over the last two decades to develop senior staff as leaders. A critical explanation is developed of the foundational contribution made by national leadership development interventions in the 2000s to the emergence, proliferation, and ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • World Yearbook of Education 2008

    Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education

    Edited by Debbie Epstein, Rebecca Boden, Rosemary Deem, Fazal Rizvi, Susan Wright ...
    Series series World Yearbook of Education
    This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Changes in the organization and practices of higher education tend to travel from the ‘West to the rest’. Thus, ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
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  • Does Education Matter?

    Myths About Education and Economic Growth

    by Alison Wolf ...
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  • Sociology: The Key Concepts

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