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  • Disposable Domestics

    Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy

    de Grace Chang, Alicia Garza ...
    The book that "has helped to make transnational analyses of reproductive labor central to our understanding of race and gender in the twenty-first century" (Angela Y. Davis, author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle).Illegal. Unamerican. Disposable. In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity is that of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Regulating the Lives of Women

    Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

    de Mimi Abramovitz ...
    In the fourth edition of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present, Abramovitz traces how the welfare state regulated the lives of women from colonial times to the present.Drawing on important feminist concepts—social reproduction, the gender division of labor, and patriarchy—Abramovitz successfully exposes the gendered and racialized myths and ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Working in the Context of Austerity

    Challenges and Struggles

    de Jill Rubery, Steve Davies, Helen Blakely, Patrick Gunnigle, Tom Turner, Mike O'Brien, Caroline Murphy, Jonathan Lavelle, Michelle O’Sullivan, Lorraine Ryan, Juliette Macmahon, Alina Baluch, Pauric O’Rourke, Jennifer Zelnick, Mimi Abramovitz, Doug Young, Dora Scholarios, Eva Jendro, Feng Xu, Kendra Strauss, Geraldina Polanco, Pat Armstrong, Philip James, Niels Van Doorn, Wayne Lewchuk ...
    Austerity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions.With an international team of editors and authors from Europe, North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the impact of austerity on work across the private, public and voluntary ... Leer más

    $47.69 USD

  • Regulating the Lives of Women

    Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

    de Mimi Abramovitz ...
    Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating the Lives of Women (1988, 1996) was one of the first books to apply a race and gender lens to the U.S. welfare state. The first two editions successfully exposed how myths and stereotypes built into welfare state rules and regulations define women as "deserving" or "undeserving" of aid depending on ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

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  • What Is Government Good At?

    A Canadian Answer

    de Donald Savoie ...
    Winner: Donner Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Public Policy Writing by Canadians (2016)Winner: New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction (2016)Recent decades have shown the public's support for government plummet alongside political leaders’ credibility. This downward spiral calls for an exploration of what has gone wrong. The questions "What is government good at?" and "What is government ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Democracy in Chains

    The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

    de Nancy MacLean ...
    **Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all ... Leer más

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  • Progressive Capitalism

    How to achieve economic growth, liberty and social justice

    de David Sainsbury ...
    The neo-liberalism that dominated economic thinking since the advent of Thatcher and Reagan is now seen to have serious flaws. Progressive Capitalism seeks to replace it with a new Progressive political economy, based on an analysis of why the growth rates of countries differ, and what firms have to do to achieve competitive advantage in today's global economy. The cornerstone of the political ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Public Strategy

    Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good

    de Geoff Mulgan ...
    The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is ... Leer más

    $51.29 USD

  • From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition

    A History of Social Welfare in America

    de Walter I. Trattner ...
    Over twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new sixth edition has been updated to include the latest developments in our society as well as trends ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Corporatizing Canada

    Making Business Out of Public Service

    de Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl, Kevin Walby ...
    From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming public programs into corporate revenue streams.Senior managers use corporate methodology to set priorities in social services and ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Civil Rights

    Rhetoric or Reality

    de Thomas Sowell ...
    It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which they continue, Who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Public Management Reform

    A Comparative Analysis - Into The Age of Austerity

    de Christopher Pollitt, Geert Bouckaert ...
    Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform. Even in Australasia extensive measures of fiscal restraint have been implemented. In this fourth edition the basic structure of the book has been retained but there has been a line-by-line rewriting, ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD