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  • Housing, States and Localities

    by Peter Dickens, Simon Duncan, Mark Goodwin, Fred Gray ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing
    A continual problem in modern societies is how housing of a good standard can be provided for all those who need it. Some countries, and some local areas within any one country, have clearly succeeded better than others. Originally published in 1985, Housing, States and Localities shows how and why success and failure in housing provision come about. It does this using comparative analysis of two ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Single Mothers In International Context

    Mothers Or Workers?

    Edited by Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards ...
    Single mothers caring for dependent children are an important and increasing population in industrialized countries. In some, single mothers are seen primarily as mothers and few have paid work; in others, they are regarded as workers and most have paid work; and sometimes they are seen as an uneasy combination of the two with varying proportions taking up paid work.; This edited collection ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Reinventing Couples

    Tradition, Agency and Bricolage

    by Simon Duncan, Julia Carter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of ‘tradition’ and ‘modern’. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-invented; how meaning can leak from past to present; the ways in which people’s agencies differ as they make decisions; and the process of bricolage in ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Analysing Families

    Morality and Rationality in Policy and Practice

    Edited by Alan Carling, Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards ...
    While the family and its role continues to be a key topic in social and government policy, much of the literature is concerned with describing the dramatic changes that are taking place. By contrast, Analysing Families directly addresses the social processes responsible for these changes - how social policy interacts with what families actually do. Topics covered include:* the relationship between ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Gender, Economy and Culture in the European Union

    by Simon Duncan, Birgit Pfau-Effinger ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    Providing a comprehensive analysis of comparative gender difference in the EU, this book addresses a spectrum of gender issues. From employment and households, to culture, sexuality and male violence, the book transcends any 'economy/culture' divide. This wide coverage is placed within a conceptual view of structured 'gender cultures' which vary spatially and historically. Individual chapters are ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Welfare

    by Mary Daly ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Welfare is an important concept in the social sciences. It is also challenged and contested not only by alternative concepts but also as a political goal in itself. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this book takes a fresh look at the continuing relevance of welfare in the context of public policy, recent scholarly developments and changes in popular attitudes and behaviour.The book connects ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • European Capitalist Welfare Societies

    The Challenge of Sustainability

    by P. Frericks, R. Maier ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers an analysis of European capitalist welfare societies, centering on the questions of sustainability and the financing of social rights. Capitalism is defined as a multi-model economy, comprising of a market economy (including production, distribution and exchange), a state welfare economy (based on compulsory transfers, such as taxes and social contributions), a household economy ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Social Exclusion in Europe

    Problems and Paradigms

    by Paul Littlewood, Ignace Glorieux, Ingrid Jönsson ...
    Exclusion has come to hold a prominent place in the political discourse of all governments in the European Union and in the European Commission itself. As such, it figures importantly in various research agencies’ funding priorities attracting academics to develop and conduct major research programmes. But what does it mean? This book analyzes the different meanings the term exclusion has come to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Undoing Privilege

    Unearned Advantage in a Divided World

    by Professor Bob Pease ...
    For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. In Undoing Privilege, Bob Pease argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in both critical theories and in the practices of social change. As a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their dominance.Undoing Privilege explores the main sites of privilege, from Western ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Why We Need a New Welfare State

    Edited by Duncan Gallie, Anton Hemerijck, John Myles, Gøsta Esping-Andersen ...
    Leading scholars in the field examine the highly topical issue of the future of the welfare state in Europe. They argue that welfare states need to adjust, and examine which kind of welfare architecture will further Europe's stated goal of maximum social inclusion and justice. The volume concentrates on four principal social policy domains; the aged and transition to retirement; the welfare issues ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Urban Theory

    A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century

    by Alan Harding, Talja Blokland ...
    What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just between cities but within cities, in an increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This book explains:Relations between urban theory and modernity in key ideas of the Chicago School, spatial analysis, humanistic urban geography, and ‘radical′ ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Neoliberalising Old Age

    by John Macnicol ...
    Governments are encouraging later-life working and state pension ages are being raised. There is also a growing debate on intergenerational equity and on ageism/age discrimination. John Macnicol, one of Europe's leading academic analysts of old age and ageing, examines the effect of neoliberalism on the recent ageing and social policy agenda in the UK and the USA. He argues that the demographic ... Read more

    $36.09 USD