Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe: The Multifaceted Consequences of Labour Market Insecurity (Unt Marge)(Pevná vazba)

Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe: The Multifaceted Consequences of Labour Market Insecurity (Unt Marge)(Pevná vazba)

Policymakers throughout Europe are enacting policies to support youth labour market integration. However, many young people continue to face unemployment and job insecurity. Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective, this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the multifaceted

Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe (Blossfeld H.)(Pevná vazba)

Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe (Nikolayenko Olena)(Pevná vazba)

At the turn of the twenty-first century, a tide of nonviolent youth movements swept across Eastern Europe. Young people demanded political change in repressive political regimes that emerged since the collapse of communism. The Serbian social movement Otpor (Resistance) played a vital role in

Global Meat: Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry (Winders Bill)(Paperback)

The growth of the global meat industry and the implications for climate change, food insecurity, workers' rights, the treatment of animals, and other issues.Global meat production and consumption have risen sharply and steadily over the past five decades, with per capita meat consumption almost

Market Microstructure in Practice (Second Edition) (Lehalle Charles-Albert)(Pevná vazba)

This book exposes and comments on the consequences of Reg NMS and MiFID on market microstructure. It covers changes in market design, electronic trading, and investor and trader behaviors. The emergence of high frequency trading and critical events like the'Flash Crash' of 2010 are also analyzed in

Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict (Fazal Tanisha M.)(Pevná vazba)

In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for the commencement, conduct, and conclusion of wars over the course of the past one hundred fifty years.Fazal outlines three main arguments: early laws of war favored belligerents, but

Labour and the left in the 1980s (Davis Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. There are articles about

Islam in Liberal Europe: Freedom, Equality, and Intolerance (Hafez Kai)(Pevná vazba)

Islam in 'Liberal' Europe provides the first comprehensive overview of the political and social status of Islam and of Muslim migrants in Europe. In addition to offering a critical assessment of positive and negative trends in Islamic-Western relations, Kai Hafez also engages in a theoretical

Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe (Abdelhady Dalia)(Pevná vazba)

This book underscores the centrality of refugees to the workings of current dynamics of social and cultural membership in the welfare state. The contributions look into the meaning of the welfare state, as represented in legal and discursive practices, and the imagination of those seeking to build

Social and Labour Rights in a Global Context: International and Comparative Perspectives (Hepple Bob)(Pevná vazba)

The active pursuit of social and labor rights is seen as a crucial response to globalization. Essays by leading scholars from the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.S. question the effectiveness of the new rhetoric of rights (such as decent work and security; equality of

After Brexit: Consequences for the European Union (Da Costa Cabral Nazar)(Pevná vazba)

​Confronts the economic and social fragility of the European Union in a globalized world Questions the future of the European integration project Address the major areas of the EU that can be affected by

No Women Jump Out!: Gender Exclusion, Labour Organization and Political Leadership in Antigua 1917-1970 (Phelan Craig)(Paperback)

This book provides a history of twentieth-century labour in the British colony of Antigua and Barbuda. It contains documented evidence of class struggle between landowners and peasants both before and after the formal, legal introdudction of trade and labour unions in 1940. It shows that women were

Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City (Smith Macs)(Pevná vazba)

The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites. According to French philosopher Michel Serres, ordered systems are founded on the pathologization of parasites, which can never be fully expelled. In

Three Roads to the Welfare State: Liberalism, Social Democracy and Christian Democracy (Fanning Bryan)(Pevná vazba)

This interdisciplinary analysis casts new light on the construction of social policy in Europe. Within the contexts of three important traditions--social democracy, Christian democracy and liberalism--it traces the protagonists and beliefs that influenced social change. It is an accessible and

Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities - Changing Our World(Pevná vazba)

Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities provides crucial insight into social entrepreneurship from visionaries in the field as well as other experienced practitioners and renowned

Four Dead in Ohio: The Global Legacy of Youth Activism and State Repression (Solomon Johanna)(Pevná vazba)

This Special Issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change reflects upon global student and youth activism 50 years after the infamous May 4, 1970 National Guard shootings of student activists demonstrating against the US wars in Vietnam and Cambodia at Kent State University in Ohio,

Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in Frankenstein (Botting Eileen Hunt)(Pevná vazba)

From her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the radical philosophies of her parents, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the anarchist William Godwin. Against

Multifaceted Protocols in Biotechnology, Volume 2 (Amid Azura)(Pevná vazba)

This contributed volume, 'Multifaceted Protocols in Biotechnology, Volume 2', consists of multidisciplinary methods and techniques commonly used in biotechnology studies. There are two sections covered in this book - Ionic Liquid Related Techniques & Evergreen Biotechnology Techniques. A brief

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe (Siklodi Nora)(Pevná vazba)

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe explores contemporary models of national and European Union (EU) citizenship in the context of intra-EU mobility. Scholars have often addressed these models from separate disciplinary standpoints. National citizenship has been studied through the prism

Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy (Lukcs Gabriella)(Pevná vazba)

In the wake of labor market deregulation during the 2000s, online content sharing and social networking platforms were promoted in Japan as new sites of work that were accessible to anyone. Enticed by the chance to build personally fulfilling careers, many young women entered Japan's digital

Love in Case of Emergency (Krien Daniela)(Pevná vazba)

Fans of Sarah Dunn, Elisabeth Egan, and Isabel Gillies will relate to the multifaceted lives of Krien's characters, brilliantly rendered in her vivid voice. -- BooklistWriting with the wry realism of Sally Rooney, one of Germany' most promising literary talents demonstrates her incisive

Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States (Kraut Julia Rose)(Pevná vazba)

In this first comprehensive overview of the intersection of immigration law and the First Amendment, a lawyer and historian traces ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States from the Alien Friends Act of 1798 to the evolving policies of the Trump administration. Beginning with the

Life Insurance in Europe: Risk Analysis and Market Challenges (Borda Marta)(Pevná vazba)

Part I - Market Picture and Development Challenges.- European Life Insurance Market - Analysis of Current Situation and Development Prospects.- Social Determinants of Life Insurance in the European Union.- The Challenges Faced by Life Insurance Companies in the Baltic States.- The Turkish Life

The Varieties of Temporal Experience: Travels in Philosophical, Historical, and Ethnographic Time (Jackson Michael D.)(Pevná vazba)

Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our cultural representations of temporality and our experience. Jackson juxtaposes philosophy, history, and ethnography in an attempt to do justice to the bewildering