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  • The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families

    Resources, Employment and Policies to Improve Wellbeing

    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Single parents face a triple bind of inadequate resources, employment, and policies, which in combination further complicate their lives.This book - multi-disciplinary and comparative in design - shows evidence from over 40 countries, along with detailed case studies of Sweden, Iceland, Scotland, and the UK. It covers aspects of well-being that include ... Leer más

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  • A New Social Question?

    On Minimum Income Protection in the Postindustrial Era

    de Ive Marx ...
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    Advanced welfare states are said to be facing, in the words of Pierre Rosanvallon, a New Social Question. The idea here, and it is a widely shared one, is that the transition from an industrial to a postindustrial environment has brought with it a whole new set of social risks, constraints and trade-offs which necessitate radical recalibration of social security systems. This book analyses in some ... Leer más

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  • Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

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    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
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  • Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word

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    Series Libro 3 - Canadian Commentaries
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  • Happiness

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  • Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy, Second Edition

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