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  • From Crisis to Catastrophe

    Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change

    by Joan C. Tronto, Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Veena Siddharth, Ito Peng, Odichinma Akosionu, Janette S. Dill, J'Mag Karbeah, Laura Mauldin, Pat Armstrong, Janna Klostermann, María Nieves Rico, Laura Pautassi, Valeria Esquivel, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Johanna S. Quinn, Zitha Mokomane, Ameeta Jaga, Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Franziska Dorn, Nancy Folbre, Leila Gautham, Martha MacDonald, Sabrina Marchetti, Merita Mesiäislehto, Orly Benjamin, Thurid Eggers, Christopher Grages, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Cynthia J. Cranford, Cindy L. Cain, Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith, Katherine Ravenswood, Julie Kashen ...
    Series series Carework in a Changing World
    The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care

    A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim

    Edited by Sonya Michel, Ito Peng ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how around the world, women’s increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of their welfare states and the gendering of employment opportunities. As one result, the authors find, women are increasingly migrating from the ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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    How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

    by Richard V. Reeves ...
    Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America.In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent-we are the ... Read more

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Poorly Understood

    What America Gets Wrong About Poverty

    by Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, Heather E. Bullock ...
    What if the idealized image of American society—a land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic success—is completely wrong? Few topics have as many myths, stereotypes, and misperceptions surrounding them as that of poverty in America. The poor have been badly misunderstood since the beginnings of the country, with the rhetoric only ratcheting up in recent times. Our current era of ... Read more

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  • Caring for Children

    Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada

    by Rachel Langford, Patrizia Albanese, Susan Prentice ...
    Social inequality. Selective political attention. Insufficient funding and access. Caring for Children provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the crisis in care for Canadian children and their caregivers.Couched in the language of choice, government policies on the care of Canadian children over the past decade have favoured professional, nuclear families while doing little to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Black Agenda

    Bold Solutions for a Broken System

    Edited by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman ...
    " The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is possible by igniting long overdue conversations around how to enact lasting and meaningful change rooted in racial justice." ... Read more

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  • Basic Income for Canadians

    From the COVID-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All

    by Evelyn L. Forget ...
    Before the COVID‐19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put millions out of work, the federal government implemented new measures which constituted Canada's largest ever experiment with a basic income for almost everyone.In this new and revised edition, Evelyn L. Forget ... Read more

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  • Evidence-Based Policy-Making in Canada

    by Shaun P. Young ...
    Making policy is what governments do, but there are some fascinating and hotly debated issues associated with how government decisions get made in the interests of the people. The concept and practice of evidence-based policy-making insists that properly developed public policy draws on the best available evidence. This book considers how governments in Canada have historically interacted with ... Read more

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  • Toward the Healthy City

    People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning

    by Jason Corburn ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease ... Read more

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  • In Praise of Skepticism

    Trust but Verify

    by Pippa Norris ...
    A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating governments, and facilitating collective action. Any signs of its decline are, and should be, a matter of serious concern. Yet, In Praise of Skepticism recognizes that trust has two faces. Confidence in anti-vax theories has weakened herd immunity. Faith in Q-Anon ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty

    Edited by David Brady, Linda M. Burton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for everything from health and well-being to identity and behavior. Nevertheless, the study of poverty has remained disconnected across disciplines. The ... Read more

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