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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Prostitution
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Cambridge University Press Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times
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Cambridge University Press Russia Goes Dry
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Cambridge University Press The Great Irish Famine 7 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press Dearth Public Policy and Social Disturbance in England 1550 1800
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Cambridge University Press Dismantling the Welfare State
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Cambridge University Press Dearth Public Policy and Social Disturbance in England 15501800 14 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press The English Poor Law 15311782 9 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 9
Book SynopsisThe poor law had a profound impact on English society between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of government and determined people's expectations and assumptions about social welfare. Over the last few decades there has been a good deal of detailed research examining how the law was implemented in different regions, its influence on social attitudes and social realities, and its significance as a major burden on local government and a source of political and social concern. The English Poor Law, 1531â1782 provides a concise synthesis of past work, explaining the origins of this unique system of welfare, and showing how the poor law played a central role in English social and political development from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution.Trade Review"Paul Slack's The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 is a well-informed and concise survey of recent scholarly research about social welfare legislation in early modern England." Elisabeth Cawthon, H-Net Reviews"...this is an excellent book, especially for young scholars wishing to research the Old Poor Law. It provides a brief, yet thorough historical account, helpful bibliographic tools, and even a checklist of relevant statutes." David McCarter, Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Defining strategies; 2. Implementing the law; 3. The failure of reform; 4. The law in context; Appendix: statutes relating to the poor; Notes; Select Bibliography; Additional bibliographical note; Index.
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Cambridge University Press thegreatirishfamine
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Cambridge University Press Incomes and the Welfare State
Book SynopsisThe Welfare State is under intense debate by economists, sociologists and political scientists. Here inequality, poverty and the existing system are described. Finally, the author discusses the reformation of British policy in a European perspective. For all those concerned with the future of social security.Table of ContentsPart A. Income Inequality and Poverty in Britain and Europe: 1. What is happening to the distribution of income in the UK?; 2. Income distribution in European countries with L. Rainwater and T. Smeeding; 3. Poverty statistics and progress in Europe; 4. Comparing poverty rates internationally: recent studies in OECD countries; 5. Two nations in early retirement? The case of Britain with H. Sutherland; Part B. Analysis of the Welfare State: 6. Is the Welfare State necessarily a barrier to economic growth?; 7. A national minimum? A history of ambiguity in the determination of benefit scales in Britain; 8. The development of state pensions in the United Kingdom; 9. Income maintenance for the unemployed in Britain and the response to high unemployment; 10. Institutional features of unemployment insurance and the working of the labour market; 11. Social insurance; Part C. Targeting and the Future of Social Security Policy: 12. On targeting and family benefits; 13. The Western experience with social safety nets; 14. Towards a European safety net? 15. Beveridge, the national minimum and its future in a European context; 16. State pensions for today and tomorrow; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Changing Police Culture
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Cambridge University Press Gender Equality and Welfare States
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Cambridge University Press Gender and Citizenship
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Cambridge University Press The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
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Cambridge University Press Questioning Misfortune The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda 4 Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Questioning Misfortune The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda 4 Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology Series Number 4
Book SynopsisSome of the most interesting ethnographies of experience are concerned to highlight the indeterminate nature of life. Questioning Misfortune is very much within this tradition. Based on a long-term study of adversity and its social causes in Bunyole, eastern Uganda, it considers the way in which people deal with uncertainties of life, such as sickness, suffering, marital problems, failure, and death. Divination may identify causes of misfortune, ranging from ancestors and spirits to sorcerers. Sufferers and their families will then try out a variety of remedial measures, including pharmaceuticals, sorcery antidotes, and sacrifices. But remedies often fail, and doubt and uncertainty persist. Even the commercialisation of biomedicine, and the peril of AIDS can be understood in terms of a pragmatics of uncertainty.Trade Review'The author's work, which expands over a period of twenty-five years, presents a unique style of anthropology of social experience … The student of anthropology and other readers not familiar with the African culture would find this an excellent piece of work. The illustrations are selected well, and in themselves a great reflection of practical social experience. The text is up-to-date and references abound … All in all, those with an interest in the subject of medical anthropology - especially in the African setting, whether observers, planners or teachers can expect to find much value in this book.' Social Science and Medicine'This is a coherent, elegantly written book, full of nuanced insight, highly crafted, very usable as a text in medical anthropology but also accessible to a wide readership.' Anthropology TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. An Uncertain World: 1. Misfortune and uncertainty; 2. The pursuit of health and prosperity; 3. Going to ask; Part II. 'What You Cannot See': The Revelations of Spirits: 4. At home with the dead; 5. The fertility of clanship; 6. Little spirits and child survival; Part III. 'You Will Know Me': The Opacity of Humans: 7. Speaking of morality; 8. Substances and secrecy; Part IV. The Pragmatics of Uncertainty: 9. More questions; 10. Consequences. Notes; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
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Cambridge University Press Gender and Citizenship
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Cambridge University Press The Shape of the New Europe
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Cambridge University Press Capitalism Democracy and Welfare
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Cambridge University Press Popular Intellectuals Social Move Framing Protest in Asia Africa and Latin America 12 International Review of Social History Supplements Series Number 12
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Cambridge University Press The Cultural Politics of Human Rights Comparing the US and UK
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Cambridge University Press Russias Economy of Favours Blat Networking and Informal Exchange 102 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 102
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Cambridge University Press Controlling Misbehavior in England 1370 1600
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Cambridge University Press Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State
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Cambridge University Press The Distribution of Welfare and Household Production
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Cambridge University Press The Gender Division of Welfare
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Cambridge University Press The Gender Division of Welfare
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Cambridge University Press Russias Economy of Favours Blat Networking and Informal Exchange Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 102
Book SynopsisThe word blat refers to the system of informal contacts and personal networks which was used to obtain goods and services under the rationing which characterised Soviet Russia. Alena Ledeneva's book is the first to analyse blat in all its historical, socio-economic and cultural aspects, and to explore its implications for post-Soviet society. In a socialist distribution system which resulted in constant shortages, blat developed into an 'economy of favours' which shadowed an overcontrolling centre and represented the reaction of ordinary people to the social constraints they faced. In social and economic terms, blat exchanges became vital to the population, and to the functioning of the Soviet system. The book shows that the nature of the economic and political changes in contemporary Russia cannot be properly understood without attention to the powerful legacy of the blat economy.Trade Review'Russia's Economy of Favours provides fascinating insights into an important and neglected aspect of Soviet/Russian society. Anthropologists, sociologists, and historians will all benefit from this vivid and informed study, based on interview data from the early 1990s, of Russian networking practices. This work by a young Russian scholar is a fine example of an emerging post-Soviet Russian scholarship that combines theoretical sophistication with a solid empirical base and a native 'feel' for the situation.' Sheila Fitzpatrick, University of Chicago'In a most felicitous fashion this book weds analytical sophistication to the initimate, inside knowledge and 'feel' of Russian realities. Whether a seasoned expert in Russian history and culture or just a person interested in unfamiliar yet fascinating ways of life, the reader will be richly rewarded by a much deeper understanding of how Soviet and post-Soviet society, worked and goes on working, and what the experience of living in that society feels like.' Zygmunt Bauman, University of LeedsTable of ContentsList of cartoons; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Blat: the unknown phenomenon; 2. Understanding blat; 3. The Soviet order: a view from within; 4. The use of personal networks; 5.Blat as a form of exchange: between gift and commodity; 6. Networking in the post-Soviet period; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization
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Cambridge University Press Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline
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Cambridge University Press Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline
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Cambridge University Press Understanding Russian Politics
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Cambridge University Press The Transatlantic Century Europe and America 18902010 46 New Approaches to European History Series Number 46
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Cambridge University Press Destiny or Chance Our Solar System and its Place in the Cosmos
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Cambridge University Press Cultural Transmission Psychological Developmental Social and Methodological Aspects Culture and Psychology
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Cambridge University Press Incivility
Book SynopsisIn our everyday lives we all experience problematic and unpleasant encounters with 'rude strangers'. This unique book provides the first ever systematic investigation of these events, showing how common they are, what exactly takes place, who are the victims and what are the consequences.Trade Review'How much of a menace are rude people in public places? For the first time, this book gives us the data to find out. The biggest problem is not when nice middle class people venture into bad neighbourhoods. Rudeness happens mainly in ordinary crowds where the foot traffic is heaviest, and it is middle class men pushing obliviously through that are the main culprits. Smith, Phillips and King explain what kinds of situations cause what kinds of rudeness and what victims do about it. The authors do for pedestrians what Jack Katz did for road rage in his famous 'Pissed Off in LA.' This book pushes in alongside Goffman's Relations in Public as a classic of interactional sociology.' Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory'An innovative sociological study of an issue that today generates much anxious chatter but little sustained analysis - rudeness between strangers in public places. By treating incivility as a routine part of everyday life, rather than a policy problem to be fixed, the authors shed new light on this issue and offer some wise words about what can - and cannot - be done to produce civil social relations.' Ian Loader, University of OxfordTable of Contents1. Redirecting incivility research; 2. The fundamentals of the incivil encounter; 3. Everyday incivility and the everyday round; 4. Emotions and sequences; 5. Gender, age and class: divergent experiences?; 6. After the event: coping, avoiding and changing; 7. General attitudes towards the stranger: exploring fear and trust; 8. How to confront incivility; 9. Twenty questions and answers.
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Cambridge University Press Collective Preference and Choice
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Cambridge University Press Baby Markets
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Cambridge University Press Global Crises Global Solutions
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Cambridge University Press The Dynamics of Auction
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Cambridge University Press The Dynamics of Auction Social Interaction and the Sale of Fine Art and Antiques Learning in Doing Social Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
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Cambridge University Press Women Work and Computing
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Cambridge University Press Reforming the State
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Cambridge University Press Reforming the State
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Cambridge University Press Schism and Solidarity in Social Movements The Politics of Labor in the French Third Republic 20 Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series Number 20
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Cambridge University Press Risk and Reason Safety Law and the Environment
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