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  • Affective Polarisation

    Social Inequality in the UK after Austerity, Brexit and COVID-19

    Inequality is an ever-present danger in our society. This important book addresses the crucial nexus between the lived experience of inequality and how it shapes political responses.With contributors from the UK and Continental Europe, the book compiles case studies with theoretically informed discussions of the relationship between affective polarisation, social inequality and the fall-out from ... Read more

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  • Competitiveness and Solidarity in the European Union

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    Starting in the 1980s, competitive pressures and the ideology of competitiveness have shaken and transformed traditional models of development, public policy, and governance in Europe.This edited book carries out a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and innovative analysis of the relationship between competitiveness and solidarity in the contemporary European Union. It offers an original ... Read more

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  • The Radical Left Party Family in Western Europe, 1989-2015

    Series series Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics
    This book provides an innovative analysis and interpretation of the overall trajectory of the Western European radical left from 1989 to 2015. After the collapse of really existing communism, this party family renewed itself and embarked on a recovery path, seeking to fill the vacuum of representation of disaffected working-class and welfarist constituencies created by the progressive ... Read more

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    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
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    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    Recent years have witnessed a number of 'child protection' scandals where children, often from the poorest and most marginalised communities, have been on the receiving end of violence, abuse and social harm. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Paul Michael Garrett looks at the impact of marketisation of social work services in both Ireland and ... Read more

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    Mobilisation, Collectivism and Long Waves

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    This original book is a wide-ranging, radical and highly innovative critique of the prevailing orthodoxies within industrial relations and human resource management. It covers:central problems in industrial relationsthe mobilization theory of collective actionthe growth of non-union workplaces and the prospects and desirability of a new labour-management social partnershipan historical account of ... Read more

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  • The State as Cultural Practice

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  • The New Politics of Class

    The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class

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