Welfare States
-
Add to Wish List
![Social Policy After the Financial Crisis]()
Social Policy After the Financial Crisis
Ian Greener
Incorporating insights from political economy and behavioural psychology, this radical book provides an up-to-date account of the dilemmas facing social policy this decade: where did we go wrong, and what we can do about it?eBook:Find out more$35.96
-
Add to Wish List
![Big Data]()
Big Data
Edited by John S. Pedersen, Adrian Wilkinson
Big data and 'the package' of the digital society is de-mystified in this important book. A group of international experts frame the debates around big data and analyse its impact in different sectors in practice. They also examine wheth...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
![European Welfare States and Globalization]()
European Welfare States and Globalization
Ali Hajighasemi
This timely book assesses how Europe’s welfare states have dealt with the challenges of globalisation and the financial crisis. It asks whether the European Union has adopted a general strategy for dealing with four major threats to the ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
![Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa]()
Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited by Rana Jawad, Nicola Jones, Mahmood Messkoub
This book presents a state of the art in the developing field of social policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It offers an up-to-date conceptual analysis of social policy programmes and discourses in the MENA region b...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
![Globalizing Welfare]()
Globalizing Welfare
Edited by Stein Kuhnle, Per Selle, Sven E.O. Hort
From the welfare state’s origins in Europe, the idea of human welfare being organized through a civilized, institutionalized and uncorrupt state has caught the imagination of social activists and policy-makers around the world. This is p...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
![Social Security Outside the Realm of the Employment Contract]()
Social Security Outside the Realm of the Employment Contract
Edited by Mies Westerveld, Marius Olivier
All over the world countries face the challenge of inadequate social security coverage for workers without an employment contact. In countries of the global south, this phenomenon is a natural consequence of large informal economies. Cou...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
![Handbook of European Social Policy]()
Handbook of European Social Policy
Edited by Patricia Kennett, Noemi Lendvai-Bainton
This Handbook comprises of 29 original pieces from key contributors to the field of European social policy. It is intended to capture the ‘state of the art’ in European social policy and to generate and contribute to debates on the the f...eBook:Find out more$57.56
-
Add to Wish List
![Ageing, Ageism and the Law]()
Ageing, Ageism and the Law
Edited by Israel Doron, Nena Georgantzi
Europe is ageing. However, in many European countries, and in almost all fields of life, older persons experience discrimination, social exclusion, and negative stereotypes that portray them as different or a burden to society. This pivo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
![Gender and Generational Division in EU Citizenship]()
Gender and Generational Division in EU Citizenship
Edited by Trudie Knijn, Manuela Naldini
Family law, gender equality, care arrangements and the consequences of demographic change have long been on the agenda of the European Union. However, these are coloured by national and cultural factors more than any other disputes, and ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
![How to Live Well]()
How to Live Well
Tony Fitzpatrick
The ancient moral philosophy of Epicureanism offers many valuable lessons for the modern world. How to Live Well updates and modifies Epicurean philosophy to offer an exciting new framework for contemporary social reform.eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
![Reconsidering EU Citizenship]()
Reconsidering EU Citizenship
Edited by Sandra Seubert, Oliver Eberl, Frans van Waarden
25 years after the introduction of EU citizenship this book reconsiders its contradictions and constraints as well as promises and prospects. Analyzing a disputed concept and evaluating its implementation and social effects Reconsidering...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
![EU Citizenship and Social Rights]()
EU Citizenship and Social Rights
Edited by Frans Pennings, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
In the 1990s, the Maastricht Treaty introduced the right to free movement for EU citizens. In practice, however, there are substantial barriers to making use of this right, particularly to integration and to accessing the social and welf...eBook:Find out more$40.00
