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  • Husbands at Home

    The Domestic Economy in a Post-Industrial Society

    by Jane Wheelock ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First Published in 1990, Husbands at Home gives a clear picture of the relationship between the domestic and the formal economy. Who does the housework when men become unemployed? Is a true reversal of gender roles possible? Jane Wheelock discovered, despite sociologists’ expectations, that most men are willing to share domestic labour with their (still working) female partners.Wheelock uses her ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $42.99 USD

  • Insecure Times

    Living with Insecurity in Modern Society

    Edited by Michael Hill, John Vail, Jane Wheelock ...
    At a time when families break up and employment is often short-term, society is increasingly forced to operate against a background of insecurity. Insecure Times looks at how this sense of risk and instability has affected the major institutions of social life.With examples and research taken from a range of European and North American societies today, this innovative text on contemporary society ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Work and Idleness

    The Political Economy of Full Employment

    Edited by Jane Wheelock, John Vail ...
    Series Book 66 - Recent Economic Thought
    Work and Idleness develops the view that redistributing employment is a `feasible capitalist' solution, not just to the unemployment which particular groups suffer, but also to the work that others have to contend with, including many women. Putting the redistribution of employment on the policy agenda opens up debate on how to ensure a more equitable and fulfilling relationship between the ways ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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  • The Purple Book

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  • Nothing to Prove

    Needs, Wants and Possibilities

    by Seamus Bradley ...
    The adoption and acceptance of a competitive capitalist mentality has been central in framing a singular and misleading interpretation of the world. However, it need not be so. It is up to each of us to begin to shape our immediate surroundings towards the society we wish to see into the future. We have nothing to prove. ... Read more

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  • The Consumer, Credit and Neoliberalism

    Governing the Modern Economy

    by Christopher Payne ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    This book is an investigation into the economic policy formulation and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s through to the financial crisis and economic downturn that began in 2007-8. It demonstrates that influential economists, such as F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, authors at key British think tanks such as the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Centre for Policy Studies, and ... Read more

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  • The Secret Life of Cities

    Social reproduction of everyday life

    by Helen Jarvis, Andy C. Pratt, Peter Cheng-Chong Wu ...
    Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and that of localised social and economic disparities. Recent research has focused on the headlines of global cities as control centres of the world economy, and social and economic shock waves that have raged through cities and regions, but less attention has been paid to the secret life of cities, and the ... Read more

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  • Rethinking the Region

    Spaces of Neo-Liberalism

    by John Allen, with Julie Charlesworth, Allan Cochrane, Gill Court, Nick Henry, Doreen Massey, Phil Sarre ...
    Rethinking the Region argues that regions are not simply bounded spaces on a map. This book uses unique research of England during the 1980s to show how regions are made and unmade by social processes. The book examines how new lines of division both social and geographical were laid down as free-market growth and reconstructed this are as a `neo-liberal' region.The authors argue that a more ... Read more

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  • Why the Third Way failed

    Economics, morality and the origins of the 'Big Society'

    by Bill Jordan ...
    In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-friendly and abstract, value-led principles has failed, and shows what is needed for an adequate replacement as a political and moral project. It criticises the economic analysis on which the Third Way approach to policy was founded and suggests an ... Read more

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  • The Future of Social Security Policy

    Women, Work and A Citizens Basic Income

    by Ailsa McKay ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Current debates concerning the future of social security provision in advanced capitalist states have raised the issue of a citizen’s basic income (CBI) as a possible reform package: a proposal based on the principles of individuality, universality and unconditionality which would ensure a minimum income guaranteed for all members of society. Implementing a CBI, would consequently entail radical ... Read more

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  • Graduate Citizens

    Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education

    by John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore ...
    Following the introduction of student loans and tuition fees, the situation of students and new graduates has changed considerably. Set in this context, Graduate Citizens is a thought-provoking, and insightful look at the current generation of students' attitudes towards citizenship and matters of social and moral responsibility.Drawing on small-scale case studies of students in two universities, ... Read more

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