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  • Class Matters

    Inequality and Exploitation in 21st Century Britain

    by Charles Umney ...
    Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry; unaugmented despite the ascendancy of 'ordinary working people' and other substitute phrases. Absent from this landscape, however, is any compelling Marxist expression or analysis of class.In Class ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Faces of Precarity

    Critical Perspectives on Work, Subjectivities and Struggles

    by Jean-Claude Barbier, Emiliana Armano, Cristina Morini, André Barata, Klaus Dörre, Charles Umney, Valeria Pulignano, Glenn Morgan, Agnieszka Piasna, Patrick Cingolani, Mireia Bolíbar Planas, Francesc X. Belvis, Mariana Gutiérrez-Zamora, Charlotta Hedberg, Barbora Holubová, Marta Kahancová, Alice Mattoni, Jane Hardy ...
    The words ‘precarity’ and ‘precariousness’ are widely used when discussing work, social conditions and experiences. However, there is no consensus on their meaning or how best to use them to explore social changes.This book shows how scholars have mapped out these notions, offering substantive analyses of issues such as the relationships between precariousness, debt, migration, health and workers’ ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Labor and Global Justice

    Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization

    by József Böröcz, Stephen Bouquin, Lefteris Kretsos, Patrick Loobuyck, Zahra Meghani, John Pearson, Franc Rottiers, Charles Umney, Ramona Vijeyarasa ...
    Labor and Global Justice: Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization combines conceptual and theoretical perspectives across a multiplicity of relevant differences, both geographical and disciplinary, to develop a transnational perspective on labor and justice. Through its multidisciplinary, transnational approach and its engagement with public policy, the contributors advance ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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    Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation

    by Peter Fleming ...
    In today's workplaces we work harder and longer, labouring under the illusion that this will bring us more wealth. As this myth becomes increasingly preposterous, it's time to understand why we believe in it, and where it came from.The Death of Homo Economicus explores the origin of this oppressive myth, in order to destroy it. The story begins with the creation of a fake persona labelled the ... Read more

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  • Communication and Social Change

    A Citizen Perspective

    by Thomas Tufte ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change?In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens’ voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from ... Read more

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  • The Precariat

    The New Dangerous Class

    by Prof. Guy Standing ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book presents the Precariat – an emerging class, comprising the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives.Guy Standing argues that this class is producing instabilities in ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Knowledge and Institutions

    Edited by Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby, Regina Lenz ...
    Series Book 13 - Knowledge and Space
    This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, ... Read more

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  • Does Education Matter?

    Myths About Education and Economic Growth

    by Alison Wolf ...
    "Education, education, education" has become an obsession for politicians and the public alike. It is seen as an economic panacea: an engine for growth and prosperity. But is there a link between increased spending on higher eductaion and economicgrowth? Professor Alison Wolf takes a critical look at successive governments' education policy and challenges many of the tenets of received wisdom: ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Network Society

    A New Context for Planning

    Edited by Louis Albrechts, Seymour Mandelbaum ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and Regional Planning. Chapters grouped into five themes discuss theoretical and practical perspectives on the contemporary organization of social, economic, cultural, political and physical spaces. These sections are:models of the Network Societythe ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Europe’s New Scientific Elite

    Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area

    by Barbara Hoenig ...
    Series series Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge
    Winner of the Harald Kaufmann Prize for Senior Researchers, 2018This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research Council (ERC), the author investigates profound structural change in the social organization of science, ... Read more

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  • Lee Kuan Yew School Of Public Policy: Building A Global Policy School In Asia

    by Kishore Mahbubani, Stavros N Yiannouka, Astrid S Tuminez, Scott A Fritzen, Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishment and rapid growth of the eight-year-old Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School), National University of Singapore, is a remarkable story that deserves to be told. The five co-authors, all of whom were involved in guiding the School during its formative ... Read more

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  • Cities in Globalization

    Practices, Policies and Theories

    Edited by Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, Frank Witlox ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their place alongside ‘internal relations’ within cities to constitute the full nature of cities.This ... Read more

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