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  • Inter-generational Financial Giving and Inequality

    Give and Take in 21st Century Families

    de Karen Rowlingson, Ricky Joseph, Louise Overton ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of 21st century families in Britain through an exploration of intergenerational relationships. Drawing on new and extensive quantitative and qualitative research, the authors explore the giving and receiving of financial gifts. Despite growing concern about intergenerational tension and even possible conflict, the book finds evidence of a ... Leer más

    $80.09 USD

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  • Making Sense of Fatherhood

    Gender, Caring and Work

    de Tina Miller ...
    As family and work demands become more complex, who is left holding the baby? Tina Miller explores men's experiences of fatherhood and provides unique insights into paternal caring, changing masculinities and men's relations to paid work. She focuses on the narratives of a group of men as they first anticipate and then experience fatherhood for the first time. Her original, longitudinal research ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Jobless Citizens

    Political Engagement of the Young Unemployed

    de Marco Giugni, Jasmine Lorenzini ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of socioeconomic, relational, psychological, and institutional resources for the political engagement of unemployed youth. The book ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Migrant Citizenship from Below

    Family, Domestic Work, and Social Activism in Irregular Migration

    de K. Shinozaki ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schönberg, Germany. Shinozaki examines their irregular migrant citizenship status from 'above', which is produced by complex interactions between Germany's welfare, care, and migration regimes and the Philippines' gendered politics of overseas employment. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Paid Work Beyond Pension Age

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edición de Simone Scherger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In many countries, the number of people working beyond pension age is increasing. This volume investigates this trend in seven different countries, examining the contexts of this development and the consequences of the shifting relationship between work and retirement. ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Gay Men’s Working Lives, Retirement and Old Age

    de Peter Robinson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1924–86. It draws on data collected from interviews with 82 men in Australia, England, New Zealand, and USA. The first half of the book concentrates on the men’s working lives, while the second half of the book explores the interviewees’ concerns about old age and retirement. The ... Leer más

    $80.09 USD

  • Work, Family Policies and Transitions to Adulthood in Europe

    Edición de T. Knijn ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring questions such as what does it mean to be a young adult in Europe today and what social policies help them to combine work and family life? ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Unequal Time

    Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules

    de Dan Clawson, Naomi Gerstel ...
    Life is unpredictable. Control over one’s time is a crucial resource for managing that unpredictability, keeping a job, and raising a family. But the ability to control one’s time, much like one’s income, is determined to a significant degree by both gender and class. In Unequal Time, sociologists Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel explore the ways in which social inequalities permeate the workplace, ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Crisis at Work

    Identity and the End of Career

    de J. Potter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how we make sense of ourselves when work is precarious and intrinsically alienating. We know little about how this experience of work impacts the lives of men and women, and less about the way individuals understand themselves in the face of institutions and organizations from which they feel marginalized. Based on the narratives of men and women who underwent extraordinary work ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract

    Working and Living in Contingency

    Edición de Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced dimensions. ... Leer más

    $107.09 USD

  • In the Blood

    Understanding America's Farm Families

    de Robert Wuthnow ...
    A vivid and moving portrait of America's farm familiesFarming is essential to the American economy and our daily lives, yet few of us have much contact with farmers except through the food we eat. Who are America's farmers? Why is farming important to them? How are they coping with dramatic changes to their way of life? In the Blood paints a vivid and moving portrait of America’s farm families, ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Leisure and the Motive to Volunteer: Theories of Serious, Casual, and Project-Based Leisure

    de Robert A. Stebbins ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic terms, with volunteering being referred to as "unpaid (productive) work". This economic definition has been around far longer than that of volunteering conceived of as leisure, which is discussed as the volitional definition. By means of a lengthy literature review, this book sets out the theoretical and empirical ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD