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  • Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food

    Exploring Alternatives

    de Moya Kneafsey, Rosie Cox, Lewis Holloway, Elizabeth Dowler, Laura Venn, Helena Tuomainen ...
    Series series Cultures of Consumption Series
    Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food presents a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of alternatives to current models of food provision. The book offers insights into the identities, motives and practices of individuals engaged in reconnecting producers, consumers and food. Arguing for a critical revaluation of the meanings of choice and convenience, Reconnecting Consumers, Producers ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Poverty and Exclusion in North and South

    Essays on Social Policy and Global Poverty Reduction

    Edición de Elizabeth Dowler, Paul Mosley ...
    Series series Priorities for Development Economics
    Over the past decade there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialised countries of the "North", while many of the developing countries of the "South" have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of North and South, and that these warrant further investigation and analysis. ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

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  • Poverty

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Philip N. Jefferson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank, over 700 million people lived on less than US $2 a day in 2013. Why is that? What has been done about it in the past? And what is being done about it now? In this Very Short Introduction Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Transformation of Welfare States?

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Why We Need a New Welfare State

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Rethinking Economics

    An Introduction to Pluralist Economics

    Edición de J. Christopher Proctor ...
    Economics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy. This book provides an accessible introduction to nine different approaches to economics: from feminist to ecological and Marxist to behavioural. Each chapter is written by a leading expert in the field described and is intended to stand on its own as well as providing an ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Neoliberalising Old Age

    de John Macnicol ...
    Governments are encouraging later-life working and state pension ages are being raised. There is also a growing debate on intergenerational equity and on ageism/age discrimination. John Macnicol, one of Europe's leading academic analysts of old age and ageing, examines the effect of neoliberalism on the recent ageing and social policy agenda in the UK and the USA. He argues that the demographic ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Geographies of Labour Market Inequality

    Edición de Ron Martin, Philip S. Morrison ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    In recent years, the local dimensions of the labour market have attracted increasing attention from academic analysts and public policy-makers alike. There is growing realization that there is no such thing as the national labour market, instead a mosaic of local and regional markets that differ in nature, performance and regulation. Geographies of Labour Market Inequality is concerned with these ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • The Hidden Wealth of Nations

    de David Halpern ...
    Richer nations are happier, yet economic growth doesn't increase happiness. This paradox is explained by the Hidden Wealth of Nations - the extent to which citizens get along with other independently drives both economic growth and well-being.Much of this hidden wealth is expressed in everyday ways, such as our common values, the way we look after our children and elderly, or whether we trust and ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD

  • Social Development

    Theory and Practice

    de James O. Midgley ...
    Walking through social development’s key theoreticalprinciples and practice strategies, this book shows how it promotes peoples’ wellbeing not only in the Global South, where it first emerged, but in the Western countries as well. It covers:Definitions and an historical evolution of social developmentKey theoretical debates around social well-being, human rights and social justiceSocial ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Employment Equity in Canada

    The Legacy of the Abella Report

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Inequality Debate

    An Introduction

    de Max Rashbrooke ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    How we think about income gaps, and how we decide to address them, will do much to alter New Zealand’s levels of inequality in the years to come.'The divide between New Zealand’s poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarmingly over recent decades. Differences in income have grown faster than in most other developed countries. Drawn from the larger work 'Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis', ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD