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  • COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK

    Responses, Impacts and Adaptation

    Edited by James Rees, Rob Macmillan, Chris Dayson, Chris Damm, Claire Bynner ...
    The voluntary sector was central to the COVID-19 response: fulfilling basic needs, highlighting new and existing inequalities and coordinating action where the state had been slow to respond.This book curates rigorous academic, policy and practice-based research into the response and adaptation of the UK voluntary sector during the pandemic. Contributions explore the ways the sector responded to ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice

    by Del Roy Fletcher, Steve Tombs, Gerry Czerniawski, Victoria Canning, Monish Bhatia, Mike Nellis, Rob Macmillan, Kevin Wong, Maureen Mansfield, Vickie Cooper, Kate Williams, Mike Maguire, Gisella Hanley Santos, Daniel Gilling, Tim Auburn, Jill Annison, Amy Ludlow, Joanna Hargreaves, Ed Johnston, Tom Smith, Randy Lippert, Kevin Walby, Adam White, Roxanna Dehaghani, Katharina Swirak, Richard Sparks, James Gacek, Chris Fox ...
    This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution across the criminal justice system.Leading academics and researchers assess the consequences of market-driven criminal justice in a wide range of contexts, from prison and probation to policing, migrant detention, rehabilitation and community programmes. Using economic, ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Third Sector Delivering Public Services

    Developments, Innovations and Challenges

    by Jenny Harlock, Chris Damm, Rebecca Taylor, Helen Kara, Malin Arvidson, Matthew Hill, Angela Ellis Paine, Rob Macmillan, Fergus Lyon, Robin Miller, David Clifford, John Mohan, Heather Buckingham, Pete Alcock ...
    Series series Third Sector Research
    This important book is the first edited collection to provide an up to date and comprehensive overview of the third sector’s role in public service delivery. Exploring areas such as social enterprise, capacity building, volunteering and social value, the authors provide a platform for academic and policy debates on the topic. Drawing on research carried out at the ESRC funded Third Sector Research ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Transformational Moments in Social Welfare

    What Role for Voluntary Action?

    by Georgina Brewis, Angela Ellis Paine, Irene Hardill, Rose Lindsey, Rob Macmillan ...
    ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.During the consolidation of the welfare state in the 1940s, and its reshaping in the 2010s, the boundaries between the state, voluntary action, the family and the market were called into question.This interdisciplinary book explores the impact of these ‘transformational moments’ on the role, position and contribution of voluntary action to ... Read more

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  • Irish Business and Society

    Governing, Participating and Transforming in the 21st Century

    Edited by John Hogan, Paul F. Donnelly, Brendan K. O'Rourke ...
    A collection of stimulating essays exploring the wide-ranging debates surrounding the relationship between business and society in 21st century Ireland.Wide-ranging, diverse and thought-provoking contributions from leading business researchers, economists, sociologists and political scientists from Ireland and abroad probe five central themes: the making and unmaking of the Celtic Tiger; ... Read more

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  • Community Economic Development

    Edited by Graham Haughton ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    This important book examines the ways in which community economic development can contribute to local and regional regeneration. It presents a unique overview of the state of contemporary British practice in this important policy area and provides a series of fresh, theoretical, methodological and empirical insights which help us to understand ways in which communities are facing up to the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Transforming conflict through social and economic development

    Practice and policy lessons from Northern Ireland and the Border Counties

    by Sandra Buchanan ...
    Transforming conflict through social and economic development examines lessons learned from the Northern Ireland and Border Counties conflict transformation process through social and economic development and their consequent impacts and implications for practice and policymaking, with a range of functional recommendations produced for other regions emerging from and seeking to transform violent ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • 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 Planning Polity

    Planning, Government and the Policy Process

    by Mark Tewdwr-Jones ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between agencies and institutions within British town and country planning. The focus of assessment is how British planning has been formulated since the ... Read more

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  • Developments in the Call Centre Industry

    Analysis, Changes and Challenges

    Edited by Julia Connell, John Burgess ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
    Over the past ten years there has been a massive growth in call centres worldwide. These centres are said to represent the most dynamic growth area in white-collar employment internationally since the mid 1990s. Yet the footloose and global nature of the industry means that jobs will always be susceptible to outsourced operations, ICT developments, public sector subsidization of business ... Read more

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  • The New Working Class

    How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes

    by Claire Ainsley ...
    Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, yet no political party today can confidently articulate their interests. So who is now working class and how do political parties gain their support ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Managing Labour in Small Firms

    Edited by Susan Marlow, Dean Patton, Monder Ram ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business
    The majority of employees currently working in the private sector are now employed in small firms, yet little is known about their working conditions. This collection of essays addresses this gap. Based on theoretical analysis supported by contemporary empirical evidence, the book explores key areas of the employment relationship adding a new perspective to our understanding of contemporary work. ... Read more

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