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Transforming Gender and Family Relations
Åsa Lundqvist
‘Sweden's social policies have a central place in both academic and political discussions of the role of states in promoting women's labor market activation and gender equality. Lundqvist's innovative, historically rich and theoretically...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Heat, Greed and Human Need
Ian Gough
‘In his book, Gough offers an impressive synthesis of ideas drawn from wholly disparate areas of academic research and distills them into clear-cut suggestions on how to move forward in the climate crisis. Given the urgency of the climat...eBook:Find out more$27.20
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The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare
Edited by Wim van Oorschot, Femke Roosma, Bart Meuleman, Tim Reeskens
‘Deservingness considerations are central to the moral economy of welfare state arrangements. This book, written by a distinguished group of authors, offers a comprehensive, inspiring and highly innovative account of the logic and the dr...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Generational Welfare Contract
Simon Birnbaum, Tommy Ferrarini, Kenneth Nelson, Joakim Palme
‘The Generational Welfare Contract provides an innovative conceptualization of social policy that is extremely well suited to the study of individual life courses and demographic change.’ – Elizabeth Thomson, Stockholm University, Sweden... -
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Handbook of Welfare in China
Edited by Beatriz Carrillo , Johanna Hood, Paul Kadetz
‘The Handbook of Welfare in China is a good example of a handbook. The text finds the balance between the contributors’ detailed knowledge and the editors’ efforts to produce coherent contribution. It is a publication entering what will ...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Social Investment and Social Welfare
Edited by James Midgley, Espen Dahl, Amy Conley Wright
‘This is an exciting and welcome contribution to the debates surrounding social investment and to the comparative social welfare literature more generally. Edited by leading scholars in the field, the volume provides an intelligent and w...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Nevena Kulic, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi
‘This book provides a multidisciplinary and international perspective on early childhood inequalities. It offers a rich collection of empirical analysis addressing the questions of why early inequalities develop, and what can be done to ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Inequality Across the Generations
Edited by Jani Erola, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen
Social Inequality Across the Generations provides an innovative perspective on social stratification studies by advancing the theoretical and empirical case for the influence of resource compensation. It examines whether resource compens...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Elder Law
Edited by Ann Numhauser-Henning
‘At a time when Western countries are increasingly preoccupied with the challenges posed by an ageing population, few legal scholars have turned their attention to the multiplicity of issues raised by ageing. The Norma Elder Law Research...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Housing Wealth and Welfare
Edited by Caroline Dewilde, Richard Ronald
‘Housing Wealth and Welfare makes a timely and important contribution to our understanding of home ownership’s role in shaping contemporary welfare states.’ – Gavin Wood, RMIT University, AustraliaeBook:Find out more$40.00
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Post-Communist Welfare States in European Context
Kati Kuitto
‘Methodologically rigorous and geographically exhaustive, Post-Communist Welfare States in European Context is an insightful empirical analysis of social policy patterns in Central and Eastern Europe. It is a must-read for everyone inter...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State
Gunnar L.H. Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen
‘This book is a powerful and incisive contribution to the debates on social capital, trust and the welfare state. The reader will find an informed, insightful explanation of how the Scandinavian welfare state has been largely able to esc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
