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Work and Family in Urban China
Women’s Changing Experience since Mao
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China’s recent market reform. It depicts transformations in urban women’s experiences with both paid and non-paid domestic work. The book challenges China’s free-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts...
Food Consumption in Global Perspective
Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food.
Ethical Leadership
Global Challenges and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Presents analysis, examples, and ideas about the future in a lively yet academically robust format. The book presents the ethical leadership dilemmas of day-to-day international business life in all their complexity, providing a range of angles, options and ideas to feed a questioning mind.
Entr'acte
Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Generally taking place in front of closed curtains during set changes between acts, the entr'acte delivers a fleeting new purpose and event to the otherwise sometimes inert space between stage and pit. This collection employs the entr'acte as a model for conceptualizing emerging formations of publics and of public space.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Good social work practice draws upon relevant and current research to ensure that interventions are as effective as possible. As a result of this, social workers are increasingly required to demonstrate their knowledge of the research and evidence that underpin the daily decisions they make and actions...
Using Research in Practice
It Sounds Good, But Will It Work?
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Latest research findings can provide an evidence base for health care practice which ultimately improves outcomes for patients. With so much published research out there, how do you find, evaluate and use the most relevant studies to shape your own health care practice?
This friendly book...
Social Research Methodology
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
Today's students of social science must understand a variety of research methods. This edition fully explores the logic of research, whilst aiding a critical understanding of practical, evidence based work. With new chapters, an original framework and updated examples, this book continues to be a primary resource for undergraduates.
The Illusion of Management Control
A Systems Theoretical Approach to Managerial Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This book shows how a system theoretical concept of technology helps us to understand the paradoxes of control. It describes a phenomenon which shows regularity that is unexpected against the background of received knowledge within management studies. It presents a series of cases which touch upon a range of technologies within the public sector.
Subversion in Institutional Change and Stability
A Neglected Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This book theorizes subversive action, a neglected mechanism in the new institutionalism literature. Subversive action is political in nature, secretly undermining some institutions to open up alternative ideas or to secure existing institutions by secretly undermining adversaries. An example is a...
Hybrid Forms of Governance
Self-suspension of Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
This book is about how power communication inrecent years hasbegun to reflect on its own limits in a new way. It focuseson a number of areas within the welfare state and how power desires non-power. It looks at financial policy, voluntary policy, educational policy and public steering technologies.
Law and Policy in Latin America
Transforming Courts, Institutions, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to law and policy responses to contemporary problems in Latin America, such as human rights violations, regulatory dilemmas, economic inequality, and access to knowledge and medicine. It includes 19 chapters written by sociologists, lawyers, and political...
Crisis, Austerity, and Everyday Life
Living in a Time of Diminishing Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Will austerity never end? This timely and insightful book argues that austerity seeks to set the terms of political and economic life for the foreseeable future, extending techniques of exclusion to ever-greater sections of the population.
Reverse Migration in Contemporary China
Returnees, Entrepreneurship and the Chinese Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The authors investigate the phenomenon of highly skilled Chinese returnees and their impact on the development of the Chinese economy and society, and on the transformation of China into a key player on the global stage. They analyse the reasons why Chinese entrepreneurs choose to return to their...
Regulating for Decent Work
New Directions in Labour Market Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years. The inter-disciplinary and international approach invigorates current debates through the identification of new challenges, subjects and perspectives.