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  • Murky water

    Challenging an unsustainable system

    de Luca Calafati, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    Essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of our most vital resource.Our water system is a mess. Rising bills and rivers full of sewage grab the headlines, but the greater threat is climate crisis, bringing increased drought and flooding.This book exposes the many problems with our unsustainable water system. Unfair charges limit spending on infrastructure, while financial extraction ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Commons, Citizenship and Power

    Reclaiming the Margins

    de Fabrizio Barca, Sébastien Bourdin, Lowri Cunnington Wynn, Julie Froud, Paolo Gerbaudo, Ayhan Kaya, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Anna Krasteva, Danny MacKinnon, Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet, Sarah McKinley, Andrea Membretti, Andy Pike, Stella Rodrigues Lallement, John Tomaney, André Torre, Karel Williams, Sanne Velthuis ...
    Series series Civil Society and Social Change
    Since the 2010s, populism and illiberal politics have been on the rise. Demagogue leaders preach simplified rhetoric to vilify the powerless, polarising city and rural areas and sparking such shocking events as the US insurrection on 6th January 2021.This interdisciplinary book argues for a politics of representativity and accountability to help transform people’s experiences, showing that where ... Leer más

    $40.49 USD

  • The spatial contract

    A new politics of provision for an urbanized planet

    de Alex Schafran, Matthew Noah Smith, Stephen Hall, Karel Williams, Mick Moran ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    Housing. Water. Energy. Transport. Food. Education. Health care. These are the core systems which make human life possible in the 21st century. Few of us are truly self-sufficient – we rely on the systems built into our cities and towns of all shapes and sizes in order to survive, let alone thrive.Despite how important these systems are, and how much we rely on them, contemporary politics and ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • When nothing works

    From cost of living to foundational liveability

    de Luca Calafati, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    It’s hard to escape the feeling that in Britain today nothing works. In the face of mounting inflation and widespread industrial action, this book offers an incisive analysis of the UK’s problems and a new approach to tackling them.Economic growth and higher wages, the traditional responses of mainstream politicians, are simply not enough. This is because the so-called ‘cost of living crisis’ is ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Safe as houses

    Private greed, political negligence and housing policy after Grenfell

    de Stuart Hodkinson, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers. Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. He has worked for the last decade with residents groups in council regeneration projects across London. As residents have been shifted out of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Keynes, Beveridge and Beyond

    de Tony Cutler, John Williams, Karel Williams ...
    Presenting a coherent interpretation of the development of economic and social policy in Britain since 1945, this book analyses the political assumptions underlying post-war economic policy. It traces these assumptions through the classic texts of Keynes and Beveridge, the architects of limited, non-socialist state intervention to secure the welfare state and full employment. Topics covered ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • From Pauperism to Poverty

    de Karel Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare
    First published in 1981, From Pauperism to Poverty consists of seven essays, three of which focus on the English poor law between 1800 and 1914 and four of which examine texts of social investigation by Mayhew, Engels, Booth and Rowntree. Rather than making a specialist contribution to the history of social thought and policy, the essays raise general questions about current ways of writing ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The end of the experiment?

    From competition to the foundational economy

    de Andrew Bowman, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Mick Moran, John Law, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    For thirty years, the British economy has repeated the same old experiment of subjecting everything to competition and market because that is what works in the imagination of central government. This book demonstrates the repeated failure of that experiment by detailed examination of three sectors: broadband, food supply and retail banking. The book argues for a new experiment in social licensing ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Alternatives to Neoliberalism

    Towards Equality and Democracy

    de Karel Williams, Sukhdev Johal, Jeremy Gilbert, Colin Crouch, Andrew Cumbers, Michael Moran, Grahame Thompson, Zoë Irving, Kevin Farnsworth, Ted Benton, Anna Coote ...
    In this collection, innovative and eminent social and policy analysts, including Colin Crouch, Anna Coote, Grahame Thompson and Ted Benton, challenge the failing but still dominant ideology and policies of neo-liberalism.The editors synthesise contributors’ ideas into a revised framework for social democracy; rooted in feminism, environmentalism, democratic equality and market accountability to ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • What a waste

    Outsourcing and how it goes wrong

    Edición de Andrew Bowman, Ismail Ertürk, Peter Folkman, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Nick Tsitsianis, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing – contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A Beveridge Reader (Works of William H. Beveridge)

    Edición de Karel Williams, John Williams ...
    Series series The Works of William H. Beveridge
    The editors have chosen substantial extracts to illustrate the major themes and ideas in Beveridge’s writing over a period of more than four decades, ranging from his book Unemployment, published in 1909, to the Beveridge Report of 1942 and beyond. Sections cover his social philosophy; the crucial role he attributed to social insurance as a technique of welfare; his relation to economics; and the ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Financialization and Strategy

    Narrative and Numbers

    de Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams ...
    Considering the recent impact of the capital market on corporate strategy, this text analyzes, through argument and supportive case studies, how pressures from the capital bull market of the 1990s and bear market of the early 2000s, have reshaped management action and calculation in large, publicly quoted US and UK corporations.Beginning with the dissatisfaction with classical strategy and its ... Leer más

    $100.99 USD