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Ages, Generations and the Social Contract

Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and ...

Care Poverty : When Older People’s Needs Remain Unmet

This book turns the research attention of social policy scholars and long-term care researchers from comparative descriptions ...

Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

This collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s ...

International Impacts on Social Policy : Short Histories in Global Perspective

This book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies ...

Liberal Democracy Prosperity through Freedom

This book aims to show which factors have been decisive in the rise of successful countries. Never before have so many people ...

Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000

This Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an empirical case in order to study the emergence, shaping and ...

Migration to and from Welfare States Lived Experiences of the Welfare–Migration Nexus in a Globalised World

This book explores the role of family, public, market and third sector welfare provision for individual and households’ ...

Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion : Culture, Economy, and Colonial Legacies

This book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global ...

New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research

Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations ...

One Hundred Years of Social Protection The Changing Social Question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa

As the first in-depth study of the ideational foundations of social protection policies and programmes in these four countries, ...

Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States

This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the differences and similarities between civil legal aid schemes ...

Pension Systems

Recently, policy debate and comparative research on old-age pensions have focused on the financial sustainability of pension ...

Shared Physical Custody Interdisciplinary Insights in Child Custody Arrangements

This book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, ...

Solidarity in Europe

This open access volume provides evidence-based knowledge on European solidarity and citizen responses in times of crisis. ...

Towards a Natural Social Contract Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation for a Sustainable, Healthy and Just Society

This book states that the endemic societal faultlines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with ...

Trade Unions on YouTube

Trade Unions on YouTube provides a much-needed assessment of how old social movement actors employ new social media platforms ...

Transformational Change for People and the Planet : Evaluating Environment and Development

This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development ...

Unemployment Insurance and Non-Standard Employment : Four European Countries in Comparison

The importance of non-standard employment forms has increased over the last decades. Janine Leschke addresses two important ...

Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture

In this book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate ...

Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences : The Case of Post-1991 Albanian Migration

This book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist ...

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