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  • Where Has Social Justice Gone?

    From Equality to Experimentation

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book uses survey data in "hot spots" around the globe, to analyse various models of social justice, particularly the principle of equality, from a pragmatic perspective. Starting with ordinary actors, social movements, and concrete contexts, the authors question foundations of social and political democracy in our times. They focus on how social actors deal with the principles of justice and ... Read more

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  • Care Staff Mobilisation in the Hospital

    Fight or Cooperate?

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a novel examination of the relations, actions, and practices of healthcare workers, analysed in terms of collective mobilisation. Based on successive surveys conducted over a twenty-year period in public and private hospitals, it brings a rich new conceptualisation of both social movements and care work. We’ve all witnessed the collective mobilisation at play in hospitals during ... Read more

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