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  • Labour Market Efficiency in the European Union

    Employment Protection and Fixed Term Contracts

    by Thomas Kruppe, Ralf Rogowski, Klaus Schömann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the European Economy
    The deregulation of labour law in the European Union was thought to be a spur to lasting growth of employment and an increase in labour market efficiency. This book reveals that the results of such policies have been far from those expected.This study provides a country by country overview of the legal regulations concerning employment protection a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Transformation of Welfare States?

    by Nick Ellison ...
    This accessible work provides a ‘political sociology’ of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of welfare regimes and looks at the transformations they have undergone and the challenges they face.This book assesses current debates about the role of ‘globalization’ in welfare ... Read more

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  • Why We Need a New Welfare State

    Edited by Duncan Gallie, Anton Hemerijck, John Myles, Gøsta Esping-Andersen ...
    Leading scholars in the field examine the highly topical issue of the future of the welfare state in Europe. They argue that welfare states need to adjust, and examine which kind of welfare architecture will further Europe's stated goal of maximum social inclusion and justice. The volume concentrates on four principal social policy domains; the aged and transition to retirement; the welfare issues ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Capitalism

    With a New Postscript on the Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath

    by Geoffrey Ingham ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Now with a substantial new postscript on the financial crisisThis book provides a basic introduction to the 'nuts and bolts' of capitalism. It starts by examining the classic accounts of capitalism found in the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter, and John Maynard Keynes. Each placed emphasis on different institutional elements of capitalism - Smith on the market's ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Mediation in the Construction Industry

    An International Review

    Edited by Penny Brooker, Suzanne Wilkinson ...
    Series series CIB
    The application of construction dispute procedures has changed dramatically in the last decade. This has resulted in an increased use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in many countries, and mediation in particular. Construction is one of the major industries using mediation, in the UK and in many other countries such as the US, China, Australia and New Zealand. This expansion in mediation has ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • New Public Management

    An Introduction

    by Jan-Erik Lane ...
    New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have occurred as more and more public services are contracted out to private organisations, as the public ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Employment Equity in Canada

    The Legacy of the Abella Report

    by Carol Agocs ...
    In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to examine the state of employment equity in Canada today.Examining the evidence of nearly thirty years, ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Making EI Work

    Research from the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force

    by Keith Banting, Jon Medow ...
    Series Book 89 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    Since the inception and design of Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program, the Canadian economy and labour market have undergone dramatic changes. It is clear that EI has not kept pace with those changes, and experts and advocates agree that the program is no longer effective or equitable. Making EI Work is the result of a panel of distinguished scholars gathered by the Mowat Centre Employment ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Social Assistance in Developing Countries

    by Armando Barrientos ...
    The rapid spread of large-scale and innovative social transfers in the developing world has made a key contribution to the significant reduction in global poverty over the last decade. Explaining how flagship anti-poverty programmes emerged, this book provides the first comprehensive account of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries. Armando Barrientos begins by ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Continental Europe

    Modernization in Hard Times

    by Silja Häusermann ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book challenges existing theories of welfare state change by analyzing pension reforms in France, Germany, and Switzerland between 1970 and 2004. It explains why all three countries were able to adopt far-reaching reforms, adapting their pension regimes to both financial austerity and new social risks. In a radical departure from the neo-institutionalist emphasis on policy stability, the book ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment

    Edited by Leah F. Vosko, Martha MacDonald, Iain Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship.The editors argue that these inequalities are evident at the national level across ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States

    Adapting Post-War Social Policies to New Social Risks

    Edited by Klaus Armingeon, Giuliano Bonoli ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
    This new study assesses the welfare state to ask key questions and draw new conclusions about its place in modern society.It shows how the welfare states that we have inherited from the early post-war years had one main objective: to protect the income of the male breadwinner. Today, however, massive social change, in particular the shift from industrial to post-industrial societies and economies, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD