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  • Living Wage Movements

    Global Perspectives

    by Deborah M. Figart ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Economics
    Living wage activism has spanned time and space, reaching across decades and national boundaries. Conditions generating living wage movements early in the twentieth century have resurfaced in the twenty-first century, only on a global scale: 'sweated' labour, macroeconomic instability, and job insecurity. Upon reviewing the empirical evidence, the book's contributors make strong cases both for and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Stories of Progressive Institutional Change

    Challenges to the Neoliberal Economy

    by Deborah M. Figart ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivot presents a series of political economy short stories of collective agency, weaving together the history of a progressive change with a discussion of the role of institutions to effect change. These stories highlight sustained activism around valuing caring, ending discrimination, protecting the environment, improving worker well-being, and reimagining ways to encourage local ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Just One More Hand

    Life in the Casino Economy

    by Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart ...
    Just One More Hand tells a story that workers all over can relate to: an industry that promised a solid and stable livelihood is being transformed by competitive pressures, causing employees to lose their economic footing. What seemed like a good job one day becomes a bad job the next. Incorporating the real experiences of casino employees, the book demonstrates the difficulties for local ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Women and the Economy: A Reader

    A Reader

    by Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart ...
    This reader is designed for use as a primary or supplementary text for courses on women's role in the economy. Both interdisciplinary and heterodox in its approach, it showcases feminist economic analyses that utilize insights from institutionalism as well as neoclassical economics. Including both classic and newer selections from a broad range of areas, each section includes an introduction with ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Ethics and the Market

    Insights from Social Economics

    by Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma, Deborah M. Figart ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Economics
    Comprising cutting-edge work on the state of social economics today, this theoretically diverse book includes strong emphasis on the role of ethics, morality, identity, and society in economic theorizing.Much existing economic theory overlooks ethics. Rather than situating the market and values at separate extremes of a continuum, Ethics and the Market contends that the two are necessarily and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Working Time

    International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives

    Edited by Deborah M. Figart, Lonnie Golden ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Economics
    Working time is a crucial issue for both research and public policy. This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of both paid and unpaid work time, integrating a unique discussion of overwork, underwork, shortening of the working week, and flexible work practices. Time at work is affected by a complex web of evolving culture and social relations, as well as market, technological, and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Living Standards and Social Well-Being

    Edited by John Marangos, Deborah Figart ...
    Too many of the world’s citizens face impoverished living standards. The economic and financial crises have made matters worse. The viewpoint of Living Standards and Social Well-Being is that the fundamental objective for an economy is provisioning, not simply efficiency. The chapters in this volume examine how economies across the globe come to understand what constitutes a living and how they ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    Second Edition

    Edited by Richard Swedberg, Neil J. Smelser ...
    The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of economic sociology available. The first edition, copublished in 1994 by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation as a synthesis of the burgeoning field of economic sociology, soon established itself as the definitive presentation of the field, and has been widely read, ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • The Economist's Oath

    On the Need for and Content of Professional Economic Ethics

    by George F. DeMartino ...
    Economics is today among the most influential of all professions. Economists alter the course of economic affairs and deeply affect the lives of current and future generations. Yet, virtually alone among the major professions, economics lacks a body of professional ethics to guide its practitioners. Over the past century the profession consistently has refused to adopt or even explore professional ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • About Canada: Childcare

    by Martha Friendly, Susan Prentice ...
    Series Book 2 - About Canada
    In Canada, early childhood education and care includes childcare programs, kindergartens and nursery schools. When these programs are well-designed, they support children’s development and accommodate parents who work or study. About Canada: Childcare answers questions about early childhood education and childcare (ECEC) in Canada. Why doesn’t Canada have an ECEC system, even though other ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

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  • Reproducing Racism

    How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage

    by Daria Roithmayr ...
    Argues that racial inequality reproduces itself automatically over time because early unfair advantage for whites has paved the way for continuing advantageThis book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress ... Read more

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