Living Wages and the Welfare State. The Anglo-American Social Model in Transition, Paperback - Shaun Wilson

Addressing the rapidly shifting politics of the minimum wage in six English-speaking countries, Shaun Wilson analyses minimum wage policies within ...

Provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced e...

Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented...

Reducere. After 9/11, the United States government embarked on an unprecedented effort to protect America. The result has been calamitous: after ten years of...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Elisabeth AndersonIllustration(s): 22 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 384Collection: Princeto...

DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceResponsibility--which once meant the moral duty to help and support others--has come to be e...

This book explores, theoretically and empirically, the consequences of 'Big Data' for the politics of social protection. It argues that the informa...

It feels like the end of the world when a history professor loses his wife, his home and his career and the book he wrote to escape it all flops. B...

Taxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they ...

Reducere. Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as poten...

Description"A fast-paced true-crime memoir with all of the action of Goodfellas" - UNILAD "Sopranos v Sons of Anarchy with an Alaskan-snow backdrop...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Verlag Barbara BudrichNumber of pages: 139Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 209 x 147 x 21Cover type: PaperbackEditor(s): Philipp Sander...

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state.Publisher: Oxford University P...

The sixth edition of this successful textbook discusses the different parts of the welfare system and, in particular, cash benefits, the health ser...

COVID-19 has transformed the British welfare state. The government has created millions of new beneficiaries, spent tens of billions of pounds it d...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 229 x 184 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Nils Edling...

Locates the immediate origins of the Anglo-American 'special relationship' in the diplomacy of Roosevelt's administration.Publisher: Edinburgh Univ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walter I. TrattnerOver twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has...

Reducere. The common seaman and the pirate in the age of sail are romantic historical figures who occupy a special place in the popular culture of the modern...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolution...

Drawing on accounts of unaccompanied migrant young people becoming adult, this book offers a political economy analysis of wellbeing in the context...

"Finally, an amazingly honest book that details exactly how my brother was set up" - Brad Dassey Innocent people do go to jail. Sometimes mistakes ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has tragically exposed how today's welfare state cannot properly protect its citizens. Despite the valiant efforts of public ...

Compares welfare state politics before and after the Great Recession arguing that a new and lasting post-crisis dynamic has emerged where political...

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The founding of the welfare state in the 1940s was one of the crowning achievements of modern British history - or was it? In this work James Barth...

An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised...

Bryan Fanning traces the development of European welfare states in this accessible analysis of social change from the Industrial Revolution onwards...

Publisher: Melville House PublishingAuthor(s): Patrick StricklandNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 217 x 29Cover type: Ha...

Reducere. The vampire nations sent their armies for her. They feared and sought to destroy her. The werewolves sent their own in the hopes to take her magic....

A journalist's raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison. At t...