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![The Social Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis]()
The Social Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis
Edited by Yun-Peng Chu, Hal Hill
This volume presents a scholarly insider’s perspective on the Asian economic crisis, examining the social, economic and political consequences of the crisis in six influential Asian economies: Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines,...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![Capitalism, Socialism, and Radical Political Economy]()
Capitalism, Socialism, and Radical Political Economy
Edited by Robert Pollin
This book demonstrates the continued vibrancy and relevance of radical political economy as a mode of social scientific analysis. Scholars and students in economics, sociology, history, philosophy and political science will find the ess... -
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Surviving Post-communism
K. Roberts, S. C. Clark, C. Fagan, J. Tholen
How do young people survive in the era of high unemployment, persistent economic crises and poor living standards that characterise post-communist society in the former Soviet Union? This major new original book – written by leading aut... -
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![The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia]()
The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia
Simon Clarke
The Russian labour market has been hailed by some economists as being ‘perfectly flexible’ because Russia has achieved enormous employment restructuring with minimal unemployment, and by others as plagued by rigidities since pay structur... -
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![Social and Economic Transformation in East Central Europe]()
Social and Economic Transformation in East Central Europe
Terry Cox, Bob Mason
This book focuses not only on economic and political transformation since the demise of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, but also on the relationships between economic organization, social patterns and institutional change. -
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Structural Adjustment without Mass Unemployment?
Edited by Simon Clarke
Mass unemployment has usually been seen as a necessary accompaniment to major structural adjustment, yet in Russia, amid economic collapse, enormous structural changes have taken place with remarkably low levels of unemployment. Some ha... -
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Early French Feminisms, 1830–1940
Felicia Gordon, Máire Cross
Early French Feminisms, 1830–1940 is a source book of personal and political writings by Flora Tristan, Pauline Roland, Jeanne Deroin, Hélène Brion and Madeleine Pelletier, five key individuals in the development of women’s rights in Fra... -
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![Social Theory and the Crisis of State Socialism]()
Social Theory and the Crisis of State Socialism
Larry Ray
Drawing on a wide range of social theory, Social Theory and the Crisis of State Socialism offers a comparative analysis of the democratic revolutions, combining historical understanding with accounts of the crisis of communism in Bulgari... -
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![STRATEGIC CHOICE AND PATH-DEPENDENCY IN POST-SOCIALISM]()
STRATEGIC CHOICE AND PATH-DEPENDENCY IN POST-SOCIALISM
Edited by Jerzy Hausner, Bob Jessop, Klaus Nielsen
Strategic Choice and Path-Dependency in Post-Socialism focuses on the distinctive institutional legacies of state socialism and their impact on the transformation of Poland, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia. Strategic dilemmas and ... -
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WOMEN AND MARKET SOCIETIES
Edited by Barbara Einhorn, Eileen J. Yeo
Women and Market Societies explores the problems and possibilities for women which arise from the transition to a market economy in East Asia, the dismantling of state socialism in Eastern Europe and the restructuring of the economies an... -
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![NEW APPROACHES TO WELFARE THEORY]()
NEW APPROACHES TO WELFARE THEORY
Edited by Glenn Drover, Patrick Kerans
New Approaches to Welfare Theory draws on recent work from the sociology of social action, feminist literature and critical social theory, to counter the current impasse in social policy. Interdisciplinary in scope and including work by... -
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![THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM AND THE PROTESTANT ETHIC]()
THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM AND THE PROTESTANT ETHIC
Michael H. Lessnoff
Max Weber, recognized as one of the world’s most important sociologists, saw his life’s work as nothing less than the comparative analysis of world civilizations. Above all, he was fascinated by the differing historical paths traced by ...
