Social discrimination and social justice Books

Book SynopsisThis book presents a vision of education for democracy built around promoting equity and social justice. In doing so, Camicia and Knowles challenge many of the common perspectives of democratic education, deliberation, and the common good. The authors have published widely on the topic of education for democracy. This book builds upon their work to assist practicing teachers, teacher educators, graduate students, and educational researchers in understanding the background of education for democracy, as well as new directions for the field.While one of the primary goals of public schools is to teach students how to build better communities, this goal is increasingly difficult given the degree of political polarization within societies. Recent events provide no shortage of challenges to democracy in the United States and beyond. Utilizing theory and research, Camicia and Knowles promote instructional methods that are responsive to changing cultural and political contexts. There is an increasing need to rethink democratic principles and how these principles might be supported in classrooms in order to teach for social justice. This requires a move away from often stated idealistic notions of deliberative democracy, toward a perspective of education for democracy that incorporates aspects of identity, interests, and inequitable power relations within society.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a vision of education for democracy built around promoting equity and social justice. In doing so, Camicia and Knowles challenge many of the common perspectives of democratic education, deliberation, and the common good. The authors have published widely on the topic of education for democracy. This book builds upon their work to assist practicing teachers, teacher educators, graduate students, and educational researchers in understanding the background of education for democracy, as well as new directions for the field.While one of the primary goals of public schools is to teach students how to build better communities, this goal is increasingly difficult given the degree of political polarization within societies. Recent events provide no shortage of challenges to democracy in the United States and beyond. Utilizing theory and research, Camicia and Knowles promote instructional methods that are responsive to changing cultural and political contexts. There is an increasing need to rethink democratic principles and how these principles might be supported in classrooms in order to teach for social justice. This requires a move away from often stated idealistic notions of deliberative democracy, toward a perspective of education for democracy that incorporates aspects of identity, interests, and inequitable power relations within society.

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Book SynopsisHigh school students, teachers, community members, and leaders come together in this innovative book to share the profound influence of artmaking and justice- oriented work. Authors paint vibrant images of being empowered and engaging in social change. Throughout their art-based meaning making, authors pose critical questions and unlock possibilities. Their first-tellings regarding the power of art provide readers with a lens to understand how they navigate injustices they endure and ways in which artmaking is a vehicle for transformation. Their artmaking is a call for change.Authors emphasize how artmaking bridges relationships and brings diverse community members together with purpose. Together, they engage in new understandings of self and other. Authors identify how their arts-based collaborations publicly showcase their justice-oriented work, but more importantly, promote possibility and hope. Youth explore how artmaking plays a vital role in promoting collective efficacy and engaging diverse communities in social transformation.Artmaking mobilizes people. And once activated, these authors utilize their newly cultivated communities to foster justice-oriented work throughout schools and communities. Their justice-oriented artmaking affords community members opportunities to respond in new ways by embracing community strengths and students' lived experiences. This authentic collaboration empowers the artmaker and community to promote justice-oriented work and practices centered on diversity and inclusivity.Trade ReviewReading Christa Boske's The Time is Now is to find a profound sense of joy, wholeness, and energy to push out the borders of consciousness too tightly bound to the hyperrationalism of the workday world grounded in materialism and business transactions. The collected authors in Christa's book give form to the spirit world, and its proclivity to allow the whole human being to embrace it, putter in it, explore it and find themselves in the journey. Artmaking is about self-discovery and emancipation. It's a must read for anyone who wants re-establish a belief in themselves and in humanity."" — Fenwick W. English, Professor and Department Chair, Ball State University""Read this compelling new resource if you want to engage the next generation of youth activists in transforming our world. Truly, The Time is Now offers school leaders the most exciting, creative avenues for generating justice we've seen in a long time. This book rises to the challenge of being real when so much is at stake."" —Margaret Grogan, Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, Chapman University""The Time is Now. A profound title that encapsulates so much regarding what we need in today's world. Woven through the various narratives, we accept the invitation to hear the stories of artists and explorers in their respective communities. An authentic confrontation of the many tensions that exist in our quest to seek out equity in the areas of diversity, inclusivity, and lived experiences. Voices that ring of radical change, the reconceptualization of freedom, and the agentive stance we are called to take to realize a higher state of being and a more noble existence. The stories remind us that the dream of transformation is our most compelling force- this book gives us a map of all that is possible if we work together."" — Lillian McEnery-Benavente, Director and Professor, University of Houston""Christa Boske's edited book, The Time is Now, provides readers with a profound sense of what it means to live through injustice. The book, though, is not just a collection of heartbreaking stories, but a chronicle of triumphs, as the previously unheard are finally given a voice through artmaking. In chapter after deeply moving chapter, I was struck by the simultaneous vulnerability and bravery of the artists who shared their stories. What was clear, was that artmaking was a form of awakening for the artmakers: awakening to social justice issues, awakening to their ability to connect to the community through art and even awakening to their own value, which for so many, had been wholly unrecognized prior to this experience. This book comes at a time of deep reflection on equity, diversity and inclusion in our nation and the stories remind us that our children are absorbing these conversations. They are living these experiences and their voices are an essential part of the dialogue."" — Habeebah R. Grimes, Chief Executive Officer

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Book SynopsisHigh school students, teachers, community members, and leaders come together in this innovative book to share the profound influence of artmaking and justice- oriented work. Authors paint vibrant images of being empowered and engaging in social change. Throughout their art-based meaning making, authors pose critical questions and unlock possibilities. Their first-tellings regarding the power of art provide readers with a lens to understand how they navigate injustices they endure and ways in which artmaking is a vehicle for transformation. Their artmaking is a call for change.Authors emphasize how artmaking bridges relationships and brings diverse community members together with purpose. Together, they engage in new understandings of self and other. Authors identify how their arts-based collaborations publicly showcase their justice-oriented work, but more importantly, promote possibility and hope. Youth explore how artmaking plays a vital role in promoting collective efficacy and engaging diverse communities in social transformation.Artmaking mobilizes people. And once activated, these authors utilize their newly cultivated communities to foster justice-oriented work throughout schools and communities. Their justice-oriented artmaking affords community members opportunities to respond in new ways by embracing community strengths and students' lived experiences. This authentic collaboration empowers the artmaker and community to promote justice-oriented work and practices centered on diversity and inclusivity.Trade ReviewReading Christa Boske's The Time is Now is to find a profound sense of joy, wholeness, and energy to push out the borders of consciousness too tightly bound to the hyperrationalism of the workday world grounded in materialism and business transactions. The collected authors in Christa's book give form to the spirit world, and its proclivity to allow the whole human being to embrace it, putter in it, explore it and find themselves in the journey. Artmaking is about self-discovery and emancipation. It's a must read for anyone who wants re-establish a belief in themselves and in humanity."" — Fenwick W. English, Professor and Department Chair, Ball State University""Read this compelling new resource if you want to engage the next generation of youth activists in transforming our world. Truly, The Time is Now offers school leaders the most exciting, creative avenues for generating justice we've seen in a long time. This book rises to the challenge of being real when so much is at stake."" —Margaret Grogan, Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, Chapman University""The Time is Now. A profound title that encapsulates so much regarding what we need in today's world. Woven through the various narratives, we accept the invitation to hear the stories of artists and explorers in their respective communities. An authentic confrontation of the many tensions that exist in our quest to seek out equity in the areas of diversity, inclusivity, and lived experiences. Voices that ring of radical change, the reconceptualization of freedom, and the agentive stance we are called to take to realize a higher state of being and a more noble existence. The stories remind us that the dream of transformation is our most compelling force- this book gives us a map of all that is possible if we work together."" — Lillian McEnery-Benavente, Director and Professor, University of Houston""Christa Boske's edited book, The Time is Now, provides readers with a profound sense of what it means to live through injustice. The book, though, is not just a collection of heartbreaking stories, but a chronicle of triumphs, as the previously unheard are finally given a voice through artmaking. In chapter after deeply moving chapter, I was struck by the simultaneous vulnerability and bravery of the artists who shared their stories. What was clear, was that artmaking was a form of awakening for the artmakers: awakening to social justice issues, awakening to their ability to connect to the community through art and even awakening to their own value, which for so many, had been wholly unrecognized prior to this experience. This book comes at a time of deep reflection on equity, diversity and inclusion in our nation and the stories remind us that our children are absorbing these conversations. They are living these experiences and their voices are an essential part of the dialogue."" — Habeebah R. Grimes, Chief Executive Officer

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Book SynopsisMore than 13,000 people lost their lives and many others suffered in other ways during the Maoist-led armed conflict that lasted for ten years (1996-2006) in Nepal. Many people are still missing and many more have been displaced. The lives of women in particular have been affected, with a heightened prevalence of gender-based violence during the armed conflict and post-conflict transition period. The warring sides used gendered strategies of the war wage war against each other and this book deals about the implications of such tactics. The implications of the cantonment camps in which the Maoist combatants were placed illuminate unintended consequences of this temporary provision. By recording the implications and subjective experiences of some of the victims of this war, often regarded as a low-intensity conflict, this book portrays the agony of women who endured the conflict. It shows how the conflict exacerbated the prevailing gender inequality suffered by women. Narratives of victims themselves and their portrayal in some newspapers during the conflict period have been taken in account in developing this book. The book also highlights the agentive strategies women devised to cope with the unwanted situation appropriate in their social, cultural, and political contexts. This book presents the social history of certain segment of people, especially women and displaced people, whose traumatic experiences, agonies, or efforts to come out of that often gets shadowed in the portrayal of macro level picture of the society, polity or even a war.

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Book SynopsisRecent and ongoing issues at all levels of American education are at the forefront of public discussion and political debate. Explored by seasoned sociologist and education researcher Jose Martinez, the issues involved include segregation, tracking, discipline, charter schools, various types of higher education, online education, and faculty matters, among others. This insightful and timely book presents trenchant analyses of the problems arising from these issues and offers some solutions. Included are coherent theoretical considerations as they pertain to education. Extensive empirical explorations illuminate the issues as well. A narrative format is used for readability without tables and charts to facilitate the flow of the material. This study is comprehensive in scope and engages with many facets of inequality, all of which command great interest and concern at all levels of American society. This analysis of inequality in education is clearly significant to everyone concerned, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Unlike more limited studies, Martinez focuses not merely on one aspect of education, but uniquely embraces the totality of education regarding the two-tiered entrenchment of inequality in various areas across all levels of the educational experience in America today.

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Book SynopsisInternational Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that focuses primarily on empowering children, adolescents, and young adults from diverse educational, socio-cultural, linguistic, religious, racial, ethnic, and socio-economic settings to become non-exploited/ non-exploitive contributing members of the global community. The series draws on the international community of investigators, academics, and community organizers that have contributed to the evidence base for developing sound educational policies, practices, and innovative programs to optimize the potential of all students. Each themed volume includes multi-disciplinary theory, research, and practice that provides an enriched understanding of the drivers of human potential via education to assist readers in exploring, adapting and replicating innovative strategies that enable ALL students to realize their full potential.Among these strategies are the integration of digital technologies (DT) and information and communication technologies (ICT) into contemporary education platforms. However, technology must be more than just a tool to deliver content and stimulate engagement; it must become a means to broaden access to learning, advance equity, promote social justice, and encourage social inclusion. Especially reaching out to address the academic and social needs of rural, impoverished, marginalized, and displaced populations. Though the digital divide continues to hinder educational attainment for underprivileged populations, ICTs are providing significant opportunities to deliver literacy and basic skills instruction to disadvantaged segments of the global population as well as engage, motivate, and customize learning to address local needs. Nonetheless, the availability of ICT is not a deterministic process. Other societal, cultural, political and contextual factors are of fundamental importance to acceptance and integration that enables people to benefit from technology. The relationship between educational access, instructional delivery, and ICT should be considered in more complex terms. In particular, digital technologies should be viewed as instructional tools that improve access to educational opportunities, strengthen cultural resources, promote social and economic equity, and provide students with the knowledge and competencies to prepare them for a future that cannot be predicted. Therefore, developing ICT and media capabilities that instill citizenship and stewardship in today’s students is crucial to gleaning the social and the cultural advantages of a contemporary global society that encourages full and equal citizenship.personality of children to the community of solidarity and shared norms. The second understanding of citizenship complements the `roots’ with `roads’, with the choices made by the individual, with the capacity to form and develop the child’s personality into the actor and author of his/her educational, professional, and life projects. The adolescent prepares to become an active, committed, and engaged citizen with the intellectual capacity for critical thinking that leads to responsible actions. Digital citizenship expresses the transformations of both belonging to and engaging in the information society and contributes to the development of generation “Y” with the aspiration to innovate and experiment, to explore the possibilities of the new digital world, to question authorities and instances of knowledge and power. Education addresses digital citzenship by opening more avenues for the intersection of Internet, imagination, and exploration.Volume 10, E-learning and Social Media: Education and Citizenship for the digital 21st century addresses the use of technology in: developing and expanding educational delivery systems to reach rural populations, providing access to equitable education opportunities for disadvantaged and marginalized populations, and encouraging student civic engagement. The volume evaluates e-learning programs (distributed through the internet, via satellite and hosted on social media) that promote equitable education for disadvantaged populations; examines the challenge and benefits of social media on student self-identity collaboration, and academic engagement; shares promising practices associated with technology in education an e-citizenship in the 21st century, and advances the discussion on blending global citizenship education and social media that raises student awareness, accountability and social justice involvement.

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Book SynopsisInternational Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that focuses primarily on empowering children, adolescents, and young adults from diverse educational, socio-cultural, linguistic, religious, racial, ethnic, and socio-economic settings to become non-exploited/ non-exploitive contributing members of the global community. The series draws on the international community of investigators, academics, and community organizers that have contributed to the evidence base for developing sound educational policies, practices, and innovative programs to optimize the potential of all students. Each themed volume includes multi-disciplinary theory, research, and practice that provides an enriched understanding of the drivers of human potential via education to assist readers in exploring, adapting and replicating innovative strategies that enable ALL students to realize their full potential.Among these strategies are the integration of digital technologies (DT) and information and communication technologies (ICT) into contemporary education platforms. However, technology must be more than just a tool to deliver content and stimulate engagement; it must become a means to broaden access to learning, advance equity, promote social justice, and encourage social inclusion. Especially reaching out to address the academic and social needs of rural, impoverished, marginalized, and displaced populations. Though the digital divide continues to hinder educational attainment for underprivileged populations, ICTs are providing significant opportunities to deliver literacy and basic skills instruction to disadvantaged segments of the global population as well as engage, motivate, and customize learning to address local needs. Nonetheless, the availability of ICT is not a deterministic process. Other societal, cultural, political and contextual factors are of fundamental importance to acceptance and integration that enables people to benefit from technology. The relationship between educational access, instructional delivery, and ICT should be considered in more complex terms. In particular, digital technologies should be viewed as instructional tools that improve access to educational opportunities, strengthen cultural resources, promote social and economic equity, and provide students with the knowledge and competencies to prepare them for a future that cannot be predicted. Therefore, developing ICT and media capabilities that instill citizenship and stewardship in today’s students is crucial to gleaning the social and the cultural advantages of a contemporary global society that encourages full and equal citizenship.personality of children to the community of solidarity and shared norms. The second understanding of citizenship complements the `roots’ with `roads’, with the choices made by the individual, with the capacity to form and develop the child’s personality into the actor and author of his/her educational, professional, and life projects. The adolescent prepares to become an active, committed, and engaged citizen with the intellectual capacity for critical thinking that leads to responsible actions. Digital citizenship expresses the transformations of both belonging to and engaging in the information society and contributes to the development of generation “Y” with the aspiration to innovate and experiment, to explore the possibilities of the new digital world, to question authorities and instances of knowledge and power. Education addresses digital citzenship by opening more avenues for the intersection of Internet, imagination, and exploration.Volume 10, E-learning and Social Media: Education and Citizenship for the digital 21st century addresses the use of technology in: developing and expanding educational delivery systems to reach rural populations, providing access to equitable education opportunities for disadvantaged and marginalized populations, and encouraging student civic engagement. The volume evaluates e-learning programs (distributed through the internet, via satellite and hosted on social media) that promote equitable education for disadvantaged populations; examines the challenge and benefits of social media on student self-identity collaboration, and academic engagement; shares promising practices associated with technology in education an e-citizenship in the 21st century, and advances the discussion on blending global citizenship education and social media that raises student awareness, accountability and social justice involvement.

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Book SynopsisGovernments and organizations of all shapes and sizes espouse values of equity and social justice. Yet, there are many examples of unfair social arrangements and employment conditions, dysfunctional government practices, and growing income inequality in both developed and developing countries worldwide. The profession and transdiscipline of evaluation is well equipped to address issues of inequality and social injustice, but until recently has been much more focused on primary stakeholder and donor satisfaction (being as useful as possible to funders of interventions and evaluations) and accountability concerns.The authors in this volume challenge the field of evaluation to become more concerned about using evaluation to develop more equitable organizations, governments, and societies. Leading evaluation theorists and practitioners including Michael Scriven, Jennifer Greene, Thomas Schwandt, Emily Gates, Sandra Mathison, Karen Kirkhart, Saville Kushner, Lois-Ellin Datta, Ernest House, Robert Stake, Patricia Rogers, Robert Picciotto and Stewart Donaldson, provide a range of visions for how evaluation can play a much larger role in facilitating social justice across the globe.Evaluation for an Equitable Society will be of great interest to evaluation practitioners, students and scholars. It will be of interest to those teaching and taking introductory evaluation courses, as well as advanced courses focused on improving evaluation theory and practice.

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Book SynopsisGovernments and organizations of all shapes and sizes espouse values of equity and social justice. Yet, there are many examples of unfair social arrangements and employment conditions, dysfunctional government practices, and growing income inequality in both developed and developing countries worldwide. The profession and transdiscipline of evaluation is well equipped to address issues of inequality and social injustice, but until recently has been much more focused on primary stakeholder and donor satisfaction (being as useful as possible to funders of interventions and evaluations) and accountability concerns.The authors in this volume challenge the field of evaluation to become more concerned about using evaluation to develop more equitable organizations, governments, and societies. Leading evaluation theorists and practitioners including Michael Scriven, Jennifer Greene, Thomas Schwandt, Emily Gates, Sandra Mathison, Karen Kirkhart, Saville Kushner, Lois-Ellin Datta, Ernest House, Robert Stake, Patricia Rogers, Robert Picciotto and Stewart Donaldson, provide a range of visions for how evaluation can play a much larger role in facilitating social justice across the globe.Evaluation for an Equitable Society will be of great interest to evaluation practitioners, students and scholars. It will be of interest to those teaching and taking introductory evaluation courses, as well as advanced courses focused on improving evaluation theory and practice.

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Book SynopsisOutstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.This volume addresses the theme of inequality and includes critical readings in classic and contemporary works. Chapters explore literary representations of social and economic inequality, including those which address multiple vectors of social marginalization; consider authors' strategies for compelling readers' attention to these political issues; and engage with questions of aesthetics, canon formation and literary value.

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Book SynopsisDuring the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis. Those who ended up in Louisiana found themselves in an environment of swamplands, sugar plantations, French-speaking creoles, and the exotic metropolis of New Orleans. Those sold to planters in the newly-opened Mississippi Delta cleared land and cultivated cotton for owners who had moved west to get rich as quickly as possible, driving this labor force to harsh extremes.Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties or religious meetings, sometimes 'laying out' nearby for a few days or weeks. Some of them fled to New Orleans and other southern cities where they could find refuge in the subculture of slaves and free blacks living there, and a few attempted to live permanently free in the swamps and forests of the surrounding area. Fugitives also tried to returnto eastern slave states to rejoin families from whom they had been separated. Some sought freedom on the northern side of the Ohio River; othersfled to Mexico for the same purpose.Fugitivism provides a wealth of new information taken from advertisements, newspaper accounts, and court records. It explains how escapees made use of steamboat transportation, how urban runaways differed from their rural counterparts, how enslaved people were victimized by slave stealers, how conflicts between black fugitives and the white people who tried to capture them encouraged a culture of violence in the South, and how runaway slaves from the Lower Mississippi Valley influenced the abolitionist movement in the North.Readers will discover that along with an end to oppression, freedom-seeking slaves wanted the same opportunities afforded to most Americans.Trade ReviewWith profound insight and deep research, Fugitivism is a brilliant and comprehensive analysis of the role of escaped slaves in Louisiana and the Lower Mississippi Valley. It reveals complexities and nuances of the common practice of 'running away' and demonstrates how the violence of capture and punishment shaped the national discourse on slavery, freedom, and abolition. Bolton's book is exquisitely researched and thought-provoking in its account of the diverse experiences of fugitive slaves and their impact on the South and the nation." - Urmi Engineer Willoughby, author of Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

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Book SynopsisLynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of white supremacy against an entire population considered subhuman. However, in this new treatise, historian Guy Lancaster exposes the multiple forms of violence hidden beneath the singular label of lynching.Lancaster, who has written extensively on racial violence, details several lynchings of Blacks by white posses in post-Reconstruction Arkansas. Drawing from the fields of history, philosophy, cognitive science, sociology, and literary theory, and quoting chilling contemporary accounts, he argues that the act of lynching encompasses five distinct but overlapping types of violence. This new framework reveals lynching to be even more of an atrocity than previously understood: that mobs did not disregard the humanity of their victims but rather reveled in it; that they were not simply enacting personal vengeance but manifesting an elite project of subjugation. Lancaster thus clarifies and connects the motives and goals of seemingly isolated lynch mobs, embedding the practice in the ongoing enforcement of white supremacy. By interrogating the substance of lynching, American Atrocity shines new light on both past anti-Black violence and the historical underpinnings of our present moment.

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking anthology addresses the history and challenges of using “antisemitism” and related terms as tools for historical analysis and public discourse. Drawing together seventeen chapters by prominent scholars from Europe, Israel, and the United States, the volume encourages readers to rethink assumptions regarding the nature and meaning of Jewish history and the history of relations between Jews and non-Jews.The book begins with a revised and updated version of David Engel’s seminal essay “Away from a Definition of Antisemitism.” Subsequent contributions by renowned specialists in ancient, medieval, and modern history, religious studies, and other fields explore the various and changing definitions and uses of the term “antisemitism” in a range of contexts, including ancient Rome and Greece, the Byzantine Empire, medieval Europe, early modern and modern Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom. The volume also includes a section that focuses on the Second World War, including the Holocaust and its memory. Engel offers a contemporary response to conclude the book.First published in Hebrew in 2020 as a special issue of the journal Zion: A Quarterly for Research in Jewish History in cooperation with the Zalman Shazar Center in Jerusalem, this compelling collection has already had an impact on the study of antisemitism in Israel. It is certain to become a critical resource for scholars, policymakers, and journalists researching antisemitism, Holocaust studies, and related fields.Trade Review“Ury and Miron’s volume makes a stimulating and fair-minded contribution to historiographical, theoretical, and contemporary political discussions and debates about antisemitism as a historical phenomenon and analytical category. Each essay is illuminating in its own right and as part of the whole. A rare achievement!” -- Alexandra Garbarini, Williams College“What’s in a name? This volume analyzes and deconstructs the numerous meanings of the portmanteau ‘antisemitism,’ from adjective to tool, from history to political anthropology, since antiquity through the Holocaust to present-day America. The writers challenge our use of language and concepts as way of understanding the difficulties of connecting the word to concrete historical events.” -- Sylvie Anne Goldberg, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales“A timely debate about meaning and intention in the application of a loaded term and an insightful reflection on the connection between historical events, feelings, and discourse.” -- Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University“Antisemitism and the Politics of History probes key ethical, political, methodological, and intellectual issues surrounding the study of antisemitism with chronological and disciplinary breadth. It seeks to answer thought-provoking questions and features established, prominent scholars alongside a new generation of researchers, thus offering a variety of voices grappling with fundamental assumptions concerning antisemitism as a concept and a historical phenomenon.” -- Magda Teter, Fordham University“Antisemitism and the Politics of History makes an essential contribution to rethinking ‘antisemitism.’ Launched by David Engel’s prod to scholars to avoid using the term ‘antisemitism’ since it often obscures more than it reveals, this set of essays interrogates the truisms, assumptions, and conventions widespread in both the academic study and popular understanding of antisemitism. Ranging across empirical analyses from the ancient world to the present, discussed alongside cutting-edge theory, a host of assumptions are interrogated so that readers are treated to new insights and new possibilities in how to think about how we think about ‘antisemitism.’” -- Jonathan Judaken, Washington University in St. LouisTable of ContentsPart I: INTRODUCTORY CONSIDERATIONS 1) Scott Ury and Guy Miron: Antisemitism: On the Meanings and Uses of a Contested Term 2) David Engel: Thinking about “Antisemitism” Part II: METHODOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS 3) Amos Morris-Reich: History and Noise 4) Susannah Heschel: Erotohistoriography: Sensory and Emotional Dimensions of Antisemitism 5) Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: Toward Entanglement Part III: PREMODERN CONTEXTUALIZATIONS 6) Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi: Separatism, Judeophobia, and the Birth of the Goy: On the Chickens and the Egg 7) Youval Rotman: Antisemitism and Islamophobia: A Medieval Comparison 8) Tzafrir Barzilay: The Term “Antisemitism” as a Category for the Study of Medieval Jewish History Part IV: MODERN CONTESTATIONS 9) Ofri Ilany: Feverish Preference: Philosemitism, Anti-antisemitism and Their Critics 10) Gershon Bacon: Cautious Use of the Term “Antisemitism” for Lack of an Alternative: Interwar Poland as a Case Study 11) Eli Lederhendler: America and the Keyword Battle Over “Antisemitism” 12) Arie M. Dubnov: “Fog in Channel – Continent Cut Off” Remarks on Antisemitism, Pride, and Prejudice in Britain 13) David Feldman: A Retreat from Universalism: Opposing and Defining Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Britain, ca. 1990–2018 Part V: POST-HOLOCAUST RUMINATIONS 14) Havi Dreifuss: In Defense of the Concept of “Antisemitism” in Holocaust Studies 15) Amos Goldberg and Raz Segal: “Antisemitism” as a Question in Holocaust Studies 16) Karma Ben-Johanan: Is Christian Antisemitism Possible? A History of an Intra-Catholic Debate (1965–2000) VI: CONCLUDING EXPLANATIONS 17) David Engel, Can the Circle Be Broken?

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Book SynopsisPrimary audience is Canadian literature scholarsContributes directly to current conversations in both contemporary Canadian media and academic circles around the relationship between bodies and land. For instance, Jordan Abel's piece addresses the possibilities and difficulties of reclaiming Nishga/Nisga'a identity in the aftermath of the residential school experience. Karina Vernon's essay addresses how Black subjects might respond in a moment when they learn that the home they've been longing for is already inhabited. Dina Al-Kassim's essay addresses kinships of dispossession. This book is an effort to steer Canadian literatures out of controversy for controversy's sake, and into a flow of productive, relation-building discussion. It does this by addressing the substance of Canadian and Turtle Island writing, particularly writing by Indigenous, Black and Asian writers. While it avoids empty controversy, it embraces rigorous argument. Addresses issues related to Indigenous and diaspora literatures, settler culture, Black studies, Asian Canadian studies, decolonization, critical race studies, multiculturalism, land issuesParticularly for those interested in the concepts of intersectionality, solidarity, and relationalityTable of Contents Storying Land / Relations: An Introduction in Two Voices - Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai Agency, Urgency, Insurgency [poem] - Lillian Allen Positioning Intergenerational Trauma: Nisga'a Nationalism and the Materiality of Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles - Jordan Abel Neoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts - Jennifer Henderson Listing Waters: The Poetics of Solidarity in Darwish and Wong - Dina Al-Kassim CLI and CLII [prose poems] - Sonnet L'Abbé Back to the Future: Black Canada's Past and Present; or the Changing Same - Rinaldo Walcott Deliberate Vulgarity: Performing the Demotic, Transforming Cultural Space? The Six Books [poems] - Pamela Mordecai 'Making Things Right': Black Settlement and the Politics of Territory - Karina Vernon From Islamophobia to Islamophilia: Dancing Orientalisms, Islamizing Muslims, and the Unspeakability of the Muslim Woman Subject - Sedef Arat-Koç Literature, Language, Culture: At Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Eileen Antone Listening at Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Erín Moure Between Empire and Nation: Synchronicity and Revolution in Chinese Canadian Writing - Chris Lee Diplomacy before Reconciliation - Margery Fee Federal State, Feral Culture: (Not)Withstanding Canada around its 150th Year - Len Findlay What Next? Asserting Peace Against the Odds - Rita Wong Living on Unceded Indigenous Territories: Vancouver as a Site of Conflict in Building Alliance and Autonomy in Decolonial Struggles - Sophie McCall Re-storying and Restoring the Buffalo to the Indigenous Plains - Tasha Hubbard Landsensing: Body, Territory, Relation - Warren Cariou

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Book SynopsisThis engaging edited collection highlights key discussions around educational inequity and related structures and sub-structures. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, Social Justice Education in Canada balances important knowledge, learning practices, and possibilities emanating from and embedded in antiracist and anti-oppressive education with instructive, grounding examples. The text confronts the idea of social justice as an abstract concept, discussing suggestions for rethinking educational systems and making changes that will benefit the learning lives of all students. With the aim to critically expand the emerging and increasingly active debates in this important area of educational and social development, this volume strives to collectively deepen our understanding and appreciation for critical social justice education.Organized into 14 chapters and featuring an epilogue written by Dr. Edward Shizha, the book critically deals with contemporary topical issues in education, including readings on cultural, racial, religious, Indigenous, language, socioeconomic, citizenship, disability/ableism, and immigrant/refugee status realities and their interwoven learning and teaching intersections. This text is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students of education across Canada.Trade Review"This book highlights key discussions in education that are timely and necessary. Social Justice Education in Canada not only re-examines the underlying structures of society but also advocates for a more inclusive society that addresses the inequitable power dynamics that exist. The authors provide relevant examples that confront the idea that social justice is just an abstract concept, rather they argue that social justice is at the heart of what education needs to be."—Aaron Stout, Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge"Social Justice Education in Canada: Select Perspectives makes a timely and necessary contribution to the pressing, and often neglected, issues of equity in education from critical and multi-dimensional perspectives. The contributions address multiple marginalizations, going beyond limited understandings of 'multiculturalism' to more expanded and progressive notions of social justice. The book provides both systems-level and experiential analyses, opening up multiple avenues for understanding and inquiry. An extremely valuable contribution to assessing and re-assessing education in Canada."—Prachi Srivastava, Associate Professor, Education and Global Development, Western University"Social justice is a veritable floating signifier, and it is therefore particularly illustrative and apt that Social Justice Education in Canada: Select Perspectives involves an eclectic set of issues and approaches addressed by an interesting mix of seasoned, authoritative figures and exciting new voices. Without pretense to being exhaustive or definitive, this collection nevertheless epitomizes the comprehensive and necessarily diverse set of approaches to anti-oppression education that is making for just representation, equity, and inclusion in and through education in the Canadian context."—Handel Kashope Wright, Professor and Director, Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, University of British ColumbiaTable of Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Social Justice Education in Canada: An Introduction - Ali A. Abdi Chapter 2: Critical Multicultural Education as a Platform for Social Justice Education in Canada - Ratna Ghosh Chapter 3: Educating Against Anti-Black/Anti-African Canadian Racism - George J.S. Dei and Claudette Howell Rutherford Chapter 4: On Decolonial Thought and Writing Black Life - Marlon Simmons Chapter 5: A Duoethnographic Perspective on Supporting Muslim Children, Youth, and Their Families in Canadian Schools - Antoinette Gagné and Dania Wattar Chapter 6: The Islamic Call to Prayer Broadcast as Public Pedagogy in Canada: Critical Perspectives - Sameena Eidoo Chapter 7: Social Justice through Indigenization and Anti-Oppressive Teaching - Anna-Leah King Chapter 8: Post-Secondary Education's Chronic Problem (It's About Time) - Alison Taylor and Robyn Taylor-Neu Chapter 9: Critical Pedagogy in Teacher Education: Disrupting Teacher Candidates' Deficit Thinking of Immigrant Students with Origins in the Global South - Yan Guo Chapter 10: Cultural Capital Re/constructions and the Education of Minoritized Youth - Dan Cui and Ali A. Abdi Chapter 11: Challenging Normalized Ableism In/Through Teacher Education - Bathseba Opini and Levonne Abshire Chapter 12: For Goodness' Sake! Teaching Global Citizenship in Canada with a Critical Ethic of Care - Rae Ann S. Van Beers Chapter 13: Education for Refugee Learners under the Framework of Social Justice and Racial Equity - Neda Asadi Chapter 14: Interrogating Equity Issues on Inclusive Postsecondary Education for Refugees and New Immigrants in Canada - Michael Kariwo Epilogue - Edward Shizha Contributor Biographies Index

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Book SynopsisDespite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all.The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South African Review demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy, crippling the quest for social justice, polarising the politics, skewing economic outcomes and bringing devastating environmental consequences in their wake.Contributors survey the extent and consequences of inequality across fields as diverse as education, disability, agrarian reform, nuclear geography and small towns, and tackle some of the most difficult social, political and economic issues. How has the quest for greater equality affected progressive political discourse? How has inequality reproduced itself, despite best intentions in social policy, to the detriment of the poor and the historically disadvantaged? How have shifts in mining and the financialisation of the economy reshaped the contours of inequality? How does inequality reach into the daily social life of South Africans, and shape the way in which they interact? How does the extent and shape of inequality in South Africa compare with that of other major countries of the global South which themselves are notorious for their extremes of wealth and poverty? South African extremes of inequality reflect increasing inequality globally, and The Crisis of Inequality will speak to all those – general readers, policy makers, researchers and students – who are demanding a more equal world.Table of Contents List of tables and figures Introduction The global crisis of inequality and its South African manifestations — Devan Pillay Part One: Inequality And Class: Polarities And Policies Chapter 1 Inequality in South Africa — Neva Makgetla Chapter 2 A national minimum wage in South Africa: A tool to reduce inequality? — Jana Mudronova and Gilad Isaacs Chapter 3 The politics of poverty and inequality in South Africa: Connectivity, abjections and the problem of measurement — Sarah Bracking Chapter 4 The financialisation of the poor and the reproduction of inequality — David Neves Part Two: The Politics Of Inequality Chapter 5 Liberal democracy, inequality and the imperatives of alternative politics: Nigeria and South Africa — Samuel Oloruntoba Chapter 6 Liberalism and anti-liberalism in South Africa. Or, is an egalitarian liberalism possible? — Daryl Glaser Chapter 7 Equality and inequality in South Africa. What do we actually want? And how do we get it? — Roger Southall Part Three: Social Dimensions Of Inequality Chapter 8 Analysis must rise: A political economy of falling fees — Stephanie Allais Chapter 9 Education, the state and class inequality: The case for free higher education in South Africa — Enver Motala, Salim Vally and Rasigan Maharajh Chapter 10 Still waiting: The South African government’s pending promise of equality for people with disabilities — Jacqui Ala and David Black Chapter 11 Big fish in small ponds: Changing stratification and inequalities in small towns in the Karoo region, South Africa — Doreen Atkinson Part Four: Land And Environment Chapter 12 Spatial defragmentation in rural South Africa: A prognosis of agrarian reforms — Samuel Kariuki Chapter 13 Mining, rural struggles and inequality on the platinum belt, South Africa — Sonwabile Mnwana Chapter 14 Challenging environmental injustice and inequality in contemporary South Africa — Jacklyn Cock Chapter 15 The geography of nuclear power, class and inequality in South Africa — Jo-Ansie van Wyk List of contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe transition from apartheid to the post-apartheid era has highlighted questions about the past and the persistence of its infl uence in present-day South Africa. This is particularly so in education, where the past continues to play a decisive role in relation to inequality. Between Worlds: German Missionaries and the Transition from Mission to Bantu Education in South Africa scrutinises the experience of a hitherto unexplored German mission society, probing the complexities and paradoxes of social change in education. It raises challenging questions about the nature of mission education legacies. Linda Chisholm shows that the transition from mission to Bantu Education was far from seamless. Instead, past and present interpenetrated one another, with resistance and compliance cohabiting in a complex new social order. At the same time as missionaries complied with the new Bantu Education dictates, they sought to secure a role for themselves in the face of demands of local communities for secular statecontrolled education. When the latter was implemented in a perverted form from the mid-1950s, one of its tools was textbooks in local languages developed by mission societies as part of a transnational project, with African participation. Introduced under the guise of expunging European control, Bantu Education merely served to reinforce such control.The response of local communities was an attempt to domesticate – and master – the ‘foreign’ body of the mission so as to create access to a larger world. This book focuses on the ensuing struggle, fought on many fronts, including medium of instruction and textbook content, with concomitant sub-texts relating to gender roles and sexuality. South Africa’s educational history is to this day informed by networks of people and ideas crossing geographic and racial boundaries. The colonial legacy has inevitably involved cultural mixing and hybridisation – with, paradoxically, parallel pleas for purity. Chisholm explores how these ideas found expression in colliding and coalescing worlds, one African, the other European, caught between mission and apartheid education.Trade ReviewIn Between Worlds Linda Chisholm meticulously and with great sensitivity dissects how one mission society, the German Hermannsburg Mission Society, parleyed its decision to remain within the state system in the shift from mission to Bantu Education, in creative and important ways. The book is a detailed portrait of the Hermannsburg Mission’s education work, but also a critical and insightful commentary on a set of broader questions, reflecting off the current political moment in South Africa."" — Professor Natasha Erlank, Historical Studies, University of Johannesburg ""Linda Chisholm’s account of German Lutheran missionaries’ school and teacher education work in South Africa disrupts conventional understandings of the role of missionaries in the development of South Africa’s education system. Drawing on extensive archival research in South Africa and Germany, the history of the largely ignored Hermannsburg Mission reveals the ambiguities and contradictions which marked their complex relationships with local communities and the colonial and apartheid state"" — Volker Wedekind, University of NottinghamTable of Contents Acknowledgements Maps, Photographs and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction Missionaries in education Transition from mission to Bantu Education Transnationalism, colonialism and education The Hermannsburg Mission Society and education Conclusion Chapter One Transnational Cooperation, the Hermannsburgers and Bantu Education Who were the Hermannsburgers? Transnational cooperation Hermannsburgers, politics and education Europe and Africa as imagined by the Hermannsburgers Images of Europe and Africa: Heinz Dehnke and Micah Kgasi Conclusion Chapter Two Burning Bethel in 1953: Changing Educational Practices and Control Bethel Training Institute 1920–1953 Rising tensions, conflagration and immediate reactions: April–May 1953 The investigation Official discourses Rights of students The trial Consequences Students Withdrawal of registration and transfer Conclusion Chapter Three Chiefs, Missionaries, Communities and the Department of Bantu Education Bethanie 1938–1946 Ramakokstad 1946–1952 Saron, Phokeng 1952–1954 Conclusion CHAPTER FOUR Negotiating the Transfer to Bantu Education in Natal Making the decision: 1954 Negotiated dispossession by contract: 1955–1968 Bantu community schools Farm schools Private schools Continuities Missions, school principals and the Department of Bantu Education Conclusion CHAPTER FIVE Curriculum, Language, Textbooks and Teachers Indigenous languages as languages of instruction Textbook development as a transnational, colonial activity Curriculum policy and African responses: 1955 1955 Bantu Education textbook and syllabus policy Content of readers Principles of reading instruction Conclusion Chapter Six Umpumulo: From Teacher Training College to Theological Seminary Changes in the teacher training curriculum: 1945–1955 Gendered social institutional practices From cautious uncertainty to misgiving Disillusion and departure Conclusion Chapter Seven Transnationalism and Black Consciousness at Umpumulo Seminary Finance, governance and staffing Changing identities Students, the curriculum and relations with the state The formal curriculum Limitations on access The informal curriculum The Missiological Institute Student resistance Asserting moral authority and regulating sexuality Conclusion Chapter Eight Bophutatswana’s Educational History and the Hermannsburgers Bantu Education and Bantustan education The Primary Education Upgrade Programme (PEUP): educational progressivism, ethnic nationalism and transnationalism The PEUP in practice Academic assessments, programme evaluations and teacher responses Conclusion Chapter Nine Inkatha and the Hermannsburgers Inkatha’s Ubuntu-botho syllabus and the Hermannsburgers Black Consciousness, independent churches and marginalisation Conclusion Chapter Ten Transitions through the Mission Paulina Dlamini Naboth Mokgatle Conclusion Conclusion Note On Sources Notes References

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Book SynopsisRacism After Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism. In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors interrogate the complex nexus of questions surrounding race and relations of oppression as they are played out in the global South and global North. Their work challenges Marxism and anti-racism to take these lived realities seriously and consistently struggle to build human solidarities.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Acronyms and abbreviations Chapter 1 The Anti-Racism of Marxism: Past and Present Vishwas Satgar PART ONE AGAINST RACISM IN THE WORLD Chapter 2 The International Indigenous Peoples’ Movement: A Site of Anti-Racist Struggle Against Capitalism Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Chapter 3 Emancipation, Freedom or Taxonomy? What Does It Mean to be African? Firoze Manji Chapter 4 Colonialism, Apartheid and the Native Question: The Case of Israel/PalestineRan Greenstein Chapter 5 The Role of Racism in the European ‘Migration Crisis’: A Historical–Materialist PerspectiveFabian Georgi Chapter 6 Hindutva, Caste and the ‘National Unconscious’Aditya Nigam Chapter 7 Marxism, Feminism and Caste in Contemporary India Nivedita Menon PART TWO AGAINST RACISM IN SOUTH AFRICA Chapter 8 The Reproduction of Racial Inequality in South Africa: The Colonial Unconscious and Democracy Peter Hudson Chapter 9 Democratic Marxism and the National Question: Race and Class in Post-Apartheid South Africa Khwezi Mabasa Chapter 10 Seven Theses on Radical Non-Racialism, the Climate Crisis and Deep Just Transitions: From the National Question to the Eco-cide Question Vishwas Satgar Chapter 11 Foreign Nationals are the ‘Non-Whites’ of the Democratic Dispensation Sharon Ekambaram Conclusion Vishwas Satgar Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents findings of a highly successful, international research project exploring links between social exclusion (SE), transport disadvantage (TD) and psychological well being (WB). It outlines previous methods and explains how new methods were developed and applied to assist readers in applying new methods in future research. New insights from results and their policy implications are explored by leading writers in the field. In each section the implications of the approaches and their applicability in other geographic contexts are discussed. New analytical perspectives include measuring the strength of links between SE, WB and TD and the disaggregate analysis of these to specific groups and spatial areas. The research also examines new perspectives in relation to social capital and WB and developing new economic methods to estimate the marginal value of additional travel and its links to SE. The project has numerous publications in diverse fields, however, the material presented here is new. This source brings all the work together into one volume and provides a consolidated set of the methods and outcomes of the project including the unpublished final results.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Transport Disadvantage: A Review. Social Exclusion. Contemporary Perspectives on Well-Being. Study Approach Overview. Measuring Social Exclusion. Measuring Well-Being. Exploring Transport Issues. Field Survey Sampling Results. Field Survey Results. Piecing it Together: A Structural Equation Model of Transport, Social Exclusion and Well-Being. Taking it Apart: Disaggregate Modelling of Transport, Social Exclusion and Well-Being. What Leads to Social Inclusion? An Examination of Trips, Social Capital and Well-Being. Economic Modelling. International Perspectives. Transport Planning and Policy Perspectives. Public Policy Perspectives: A View from Outside Government. Conclusions. Prelims.

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Book SynopsisGendered Lives deserves to find its way onto the bookshelf of students and scholars seeking to better understand the big picture of gender dynamics at home and at work, particularly as it plays out in the British context. Graduate students will likely most appreciate the broad overview the book provides, and I can see it provoking lively debate in advanced classes. Scholars with more focused interests will also no doubt find considerable value in particular chapters, while also being prompted to new insights and connections by the diversity of disciplinary contributions.'- S. Fuller, University of British Columbia, Canada'This state-of-the art collection brings together the latest research of eminent experts in the field. It combines a wide sweep with focused analysis of gender dynamics at home and at work, and the interaction between them. A longitudinal and life course perspective underpins the authors' assessment of the current state of gender inequality, and helps explain why some domains are more resistant to change than others. This timely and innovative volume will be an excellent resource for academics and policy-makers alike.' - Miriam Glucksmann, University of Essex, UK This meticulous book examines how gender inequalities in contemporary societies are changing and how further changes towards greater gender equality might be achieved. The focus of the book is on inequalities in production and reproductive activities, as played out over time and in specific contexts. It examines the different forms that gendered lives take in the household and the workplace, and explores how gender equalities may be promoted in a changing world. Gendered Lives offers many novel and sometimes unexpected findings that contribute to new understandings of not only the causes of gender inequalities but also the ongoing implications for economic well-being and societal integration. This topical and interdisciplinary study by leading researchers in the field will appeal to course leaders, researchers and postgraduate students in sociology, economics, public policy, demography and human geography. Social scientists interested in gender equality, labor market behavior and public policy will also find much to interest them in this fascinating book. Contributors: A. Batnitzky, F. Bennett, E. Bukodi, J. De Henau, S. Deakin, S. Dex, S. Dyer, J. Gershuny, S. Himmelweit, J. Hobcraft, H. Joshi, M.Y. Kan, J. Lewis, L. McDowell, C. McLaughlin, A.C. Plagnol, J. Scott, W. Sigle-Rushton, S. SungTrade ReviewGendered Lives offers novel and sometimes unexpected findings that contribute to new understandings of not only the causes of gender inequalities but also the ongoing implications for economic well-being and societal integration. Although gender inequality is a well-worked field, the research presented in this book is both innovative and timely. --SirReadaLot.org[T]he book encompasses the myriad aspects of gender equality; the changes, legislations, achievements and challenges in different countries; and different policy contexts in the background of technological and social changes. It clearly brings out the influence of policy on social life and how it affects gender-based issues like work-life balance and childcare, among others. --Nandita Gupta, The Indian Journal of Labour EconomicsGendered Lives in a fascinating and innovative smorgasbord of new research, asking key questions about the nature and future of gender inequalities. The research presented is accessible at a senior undergraduate level, with more detail available in appendices for researchers. A ''state of the art'' work on gendered lives. --Susan McDaniel, Canadian Studies in PopulationTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi and Anke C. Plagnol PART I: GENDERED LIVES UNFOLDING ACROSS TIME 1. The Childhood Origins of Adult Socio-economic Disadvantage: Do Cohort and Gender Matter? John Hobcraft and Wendy Sigle-Rushton 2. Changing Career Trajectories of Women and Men Across Time Erzsebet Bukodi, Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi 3. Halfway to Gender Equality in Paid and Unpaid Work? Evidence from the Multinational Time-use Study Jonathan Gershuny and Man Yee Kan PART II: GENDER INEQUALITIES IN THE HOUSEHOLD AND WORKPLACE 4. Financial Togetherness and Autonomy Within Couples Fran Bennett, Jerome De Henau, Susan Himmelweit and Sirin Sung 5. Global Flows and Local Labour Markets: Precarious Employment and Migrant Workers in the UK Linda McDowell, Adina Batnitzky and Sarah Dyer PART III: GENDER INEQUALITIES IN A CHANGING WORLD 6. Equality Law and the Limits of the ‘Business Case’ for Addressing Gender Inequalities Colm McLaughlin and Simon Deakin 7. Work–Family Conflict and Well-being in Northern Europe Jacqueline Scott and Anke C. Plagnol 8. Gender Equality and Work–Family Balance in a Cross-national Perspective Jane Lewis Index

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Book SynopsisThe study of income inequality is of fundamental importance to economics, although it has been largely overlooked since the 1980s. This book provides a long-overdue review of the study of income inequality and of its importance both to the economic welfare of modern advanced economies and their social cohesion. This book both widens the traditional scope of the subject to include, for example, the long-run effects of globalisation on income inequality, but also integrates the various models models to provide a coherent and consistent analysis of this important issue.'- Eric J. Pentecost, Loughborough University, UKWith the increased interest in the role of inequality in modern economies, this timely and original book explores income distribution as an equilibrium phenomenon. Though globalization tends to destroy earlier equilibria within industrialized and developing countries, new equilibria are bound to emerge. The book aims at a better understanding of the forces that create these new equilibria in income distribution and examines the concept at three distinct levels: market equilibrium, bargaining equilibrium and political economy equilibrium. In particular, the author addresses the question of how the main factor markets of labour and capital are related to income distribution.Sell's theoretical and empirical analysis investigates global income quotas, the aggregate distribution of income between labour and capital, and between labour income earners and profit income earners. New models are used to explain the dynamics of income distribution during business cycles and as a companion to long-term economic growth. A main focus of the monograph is on the ways in which globalization affects income distribution via trade flows, capital flows and labor mobility. Throughout, income distribution is regarded as a result of the struggle between different social preferences such as inequity aversion and equity aversion.This erudite and extensive tome will be of value to all economists, scholars and students interested in economic growth and inequality.Trade Review‘The study of income inequality is of fundamental importance to economics, although it has been largely overlooked since the 1980s. This book provides a long-overdue review of the study of income inequality and of its importance both to the economic welfare of modern advanced economies and their social cohesion. This book both widens the traditional scope of the subject to include, for example, the long-run effects of globalisation on income inequality, but also integrates the various models models to provide a coherent and consistent analysis of this important issue.’ -- Eric J. Pentecost, Loughborough University, UK‘This thoroughly researched volume will contribute massively to our understanding of income distribution and of the highly complex roots of inequality, will generate more research on the many linkages that the author has found between different factors, and will generally be the point from which future research in the field sets out.’ -- Citizen’s Income‘Sell’s book provides a welcome addition to the recent array of books on inequality. It combines empirical discussion with a solid discussion of existing theory combined with original ideas on what might be driving inequality and how policy can affect it. I recommend this book be read by undergraduates interested in the topic as well as by more advanced researchers and practitioners alike.’ -- Journal of Economics / Zeitschrift für NationalökonomieTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Various Concepts of Equilibrium in Economics 3. Income Distribution and the Labour Market 4. Income Distribution and the Capital Market 5. Income Distribution and the Business Cycle 6. Income Distribution and Economic Growth 7. Factor Mobility and Income Distribution 8. International Trade and Income Distribution 9. Final Remarks Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEurope has become a dominant frame for the generation, regulation and perception of social inequalities. This trend was solidified by the current economic crisis, which is characterised by increasing inequalities between central and peripheral countries and groups. By analysing the double polarisation between winners and losers of the crisis; the segmentation of labour markets; and the perceived quality of life in Europe, this book contributes to a better understanding of patterns and dynamics of inequality in an integrated Europe.The contributions from experts in the field offer a multi-level perspective. They explore links between objective inequalities and subjective perceptions and frames of reference. They combine the analysis of growing inequalities between different social groups and between central and peripheral countries. Analysis of unemployment and income inequality is based on European-wide micro datasets and the editor argues for both European and national frames of reference for analysis of unemployment and income inequality.Offering new insights on the increasing unemployment and income inequalities in Europe before and during the current financial and Eurozone crisis this is a vital text. Anyone interested in the challenges of social cohesion in Europe will find this book a rich, innovative resource.Contributors include: F. Buttler, M. Heidenreich, C. Ingensiep, S. Israel, J. Preunkert, C. Reimann,Trade ReviewExploring Inequality in Europe marks a major advance in the sociology of European integration. Heidenreich's research group moves well beyond methodologically nationalist analyses of income inequality, using Eurostat survey data from before and after the recent recession. They demonstrate that EU citizens understand their own economic fortunes (a) in relative comparison to other EU citizens, and (b) as vulnerable to forces of European integration. This important book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand how the EU has increased economic inequality and reshaped contemporary distributive politics in Europe. --Jason Beckfield, Harvard UniversityThis study marks a major breakthrough in research on European societies. While most of us working in this field still compare a set of national accounts, Martin Heidenreich and his colleagues treat the causes, profiles and consequences of inequality on a Europe-wide basis. This approach enables us to see underlying processes that nationally based projects cannot perceive. --Colin Crouch, Vice-president for Social Sciences, British AcademyThis timely book makes a strong case for analyzing patterns and dynamics of social inequality, both cross-nationally and transnationally. It convincingly demonstrates that a multi-faceted double dualization takes place - between social groups and along territorial lines. Moreover, it evinces that processes of horizontal Europeanization and the sovereign debt crises have reshaped the patterns of social inequality and given rise to new social cleavages and forms of conflict. --Steffen Mau, Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: the Double Dualization of Inequality in Europe Martin Heidenreich 2. The Europeanization of Income Inequality Before and During the Eurozone Crisis: Inter-, Supra- and Transnational Perspectives Martin Heidenreich 3. Determinants of Persistent Poverty. Do Institutional Factors Matter? Cathrin Ingensiep 4. The Segmentation of European Labour Market – The Evolution of Short- and Long-term Unemployment Risks During the Eurozone Crisis Martin Heidenreich 5. Women as the Relative Winners of the Eurozone Crisis? Female Employment Opportunities between Austerity, Inclusion and Dualization Martin Heidenreich 6. Temporary Employment and Labour Market Segmentation in Europe 2002–2013 Christian Reimann 7. The Europeanization of Social Determinants and Health in the Great Recession Sabine Israel 8. Does Europeanization of Daily Life Increase the Life Satisfaction of the Europeans? Franziska Buttler 9. The European Integration Process and the Social Consequences of the Crisis Jenny Preunkert Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an extensive and comparative account of how governments go about combating poverty and social exclusion in Europe. Contributions to the volume display robust theoretical anchorage to ground the analysis of the complexities of both multi-level and multi-actor governance, while the perspectives and experiences of target groups are also assessed. Research results elicit enduring problematic aspects that are not likely to disappear when full economic recovery takes place and constitute a must-read for all those interested in how to fight social inequality.'- Ana M. Guillén, University of Oviedo, Spain'The authors of this book have succeeded in developing a new and original approach to the study of combating poverty and social exclusion. Using a framework that combines insights from multi-level and network governance theory, the book analyses and compares the governance arrangements that European countries introduced in the context of active inclusion policies, and evaluates why these arrangements work or fail - an ambitious and very relevant project!'- Rik van Berkel, Utrecht School of Governance, the NetherlandsDiscovering methods to combat poverty and social exclusion has now become a major political challenge in Europe. Combating Poverty in Europe offers an original and timely analysis of how this challenge is met by actors at European, national and subnational levels.Building on a European study comparing Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the UK, this book provides new insights into the processes and mechanisms that promote or hinder interaction between the increasingly multi-layered European system for responding to poverty and social exclusion in EU member states. The contributors present systematic and comparative analyses of social policy design, institutional frameworks and delivery practices from a multi-level governance perspective.Original and diverse, this book will appeal to researchers and scholars in comparative social policy, as well as policy officials in the EU, national government and anti-poverty NGOs.Contributors include: A. Angelin, H. Bennett, D. Clegg, M. Ferrera, R. Halvorsen, B. Hvinden, M. Jessoula, H. Johansson, M. Koch, W. Kozek, J. Kubisa, F. Maino, A. Panican, D. Spannagel, E. Ugreninov, M. Ziele skaTrade Review‘The book provides a valuable contribution to the analysis of anti-poverty measures and is inevitable reading for all those who are studying the phenomenon of poverty in the 21st century.’ -- Filip Bojić, European Journal of Social Security‘This book provides an extensive and comparative account of how governments go about combating poverty and social exclusion in Europe. Contributions to the volume display robust theoretical anchorage to ground the analysis of the complexities of both multi-level and multi-actor governance, while the perspectives and experiences of target groups are also assessed. Research results elicit enduring problematic aspects that are not likely to disappear when full economic recovery takes place and constitute a must-read for all those interested in how to fight social inequality.’ -- Ana M. Guillén, University of Oviedo, Spain‘The authors of this book have succeeded in developing a new and original approach to the study of combating poverty and social exclusion. Using a framework that combines insights from multi-level and network governance theory, the book analyses and compares the governance arrangements that European countries introduced in the context of active inclusion policies, and evaluates why these arrangements work or fail – an ambitious and very relevant project!’ -- Rik van Berkel, Utrecht School of Governance, the Netherlands‘The editors and authors have produced a well-researched and highly relevant book that reveals the deep complexity of the task of combating poverty in Europe.’ -- Citizen’s Income NewsletterTable of ContentsContents: PART I BACKGROUND 1. Introduction: How to Achieve Active Inclusion in a Multi-layered Political Context? Rune Halvorsen and Bjørn Hvinden 2. Who is Poor? Linking Perceptions of Poor People and Political Responses to Poverty Bjørn Hvinden and Rune Halvorsen 3. Poverty and Social Exclusion as Challenge for Active Inclusion – The Spatial Dimension Elisabeth Ugreninov and Dorethee Spannagel 4. Poverty and Social Inclusion as Emerging Policy Arenas in the EU Maurizio Ferrera and Matteo Jessoula PART II A MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM AS SEEN FROM THE NATIONAL ANGLE 5. Institutional Arrangements and Policy Coordination in National Anti-poverty Regimes Daniel Clegg 6. Have Governments Designed Provisions for Lone Mothers, Long-term Unemployed and Working Poor to be Multidimensional and Integrated? Anna Angelin, Hayley Bennett and Marianna Zieleńska 7. Killing, Domesticating or Feeding the Snake: The Implementation of the Europe 2020 Anti-poverty Component at the National Level Matteo Jessoula PART III A MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM AS SEEN FROM SUBNATIONAL ANGLES 8. Approaches, Actors and Models of Vertical Collaborative Governance Arrangements in Combating Poverty - Five European Cities Compared Max Koch and Alexandru Panican 9. Mixing Multi-level and Network Governance: How do Local Actors Relate to the Policies, Steering Mechanisms and Resources of Higher-level Actors? Håkan Johansson and Franca Maino 10. The Perspectives of Lone Mothers, Long-term Unemployed and Working Poor People on Provisions for Active Inclusion Wiesława Kozek and Julia Kubisa PART IV CONCLUSION 11. An Emerging Multilevel System of Active Inclusion in Europe? Bjørn Hvinden and Rune Halvorsen Index

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Book SynopsisIn the neoliberal world, rising individualism has frequently been linked to rising inequality. Drawing on social theory, philosophy, history, institutional research and a wealth of contemporary empirical data, this innovative book analyzes the tangled relationship between individualism and inequality and explores the possibilities of rediscovering individualism's revolutionary potential.Ralph Fevre demonstrates that a belief in individual self-determination powered the development of human rights and inspired social movements from anti-slavery to socialism, feminism and anti-racism. At the same time, every attempt to embed individualism in systems of education and employment has eventually led to increased social inequality. The book discusses influential thinkers, from Adam Smith to Herbert Spencer and John Dewey, as well as the persistence of discrimination despite equality laws, management and the transformation of individualism, individualism in work and mental illness, work insecurity and intensification. This multi-disciplinary book will be essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, economics, philosophy, political science, management science and public policy studies, among other subjects. It will also be of use to policymakers and those who want to know how the culture and politics of the neoliberal world are unfolding.Trade Review'With the publication of Individualism and Inequality, Ralph Fevre establishes himself as one of today's most important figures in social theory and economic and cultural sociology. Building on his past work, his newest book skillfully brings together social theory, history, political philosophy, public policy and normative inquiry to tell a bold, new story about the rise of neoliberalism in the US and in the UK. Fevre produces nuanced genealogies of various forms of individualism and convincingly argues that the rise of neoliberalism is directly connected to the eclipse of sentimental individualism by cognitive individualism. In spite of the formidable social problems, including income inequality, that Fevre's account vividly depicts, he concludes his book with a ray of hope for a social movement that could bring the revitalization of sentimental individualism.' --Mark S. Cladis, Brooke Russell Astor Professor of the Humanities, Brown University'Suitors would be wrong to see this book as just another study of modern-day inequality. It offers far more insight than other books on this topic. Broadly, it is about two related trends: the decline of belief in human qualities and human potential expressed through forms of collective identity and the expansion of rationalisation and scientific knowledge into the domains previously occupied by belief (in education for example). Fevre describes this as the shift from sentimental individualism to cognitive individualism, tracing the origins of the former back to Thomas Paine and Adam Smith and the latter to Herbert Spencer among others. But there is far more to his analysis than this. With the rise of the narratives of globalisation and neoliberalism, Fevre shows how our own sense of self and agency has narrowed from aspirations for social change to anticipation of self-actualisation in the workplace. He describes how employers have embraced neoliberal ideals and increasingly take on responsibility for the welfare and self-development of employees, but then fail to live up to the increased expectations. Drawing on empirical studies, Fevre documents the psychological and other impacts on workers as the neoliberal workplace fails to provide them with the self-determination and self-actualisation it promises. It is concerning to learn how much the 'cognitive individual' defers to institutions and organisations to act on their own behalf rather than taking matters into their own hands. Fevre wisely encourages us to look for opportunities to rekindle moral meaning by reviving belief in human qualities rather than in the discourse of neoliberalism.' --Alex Standish, University College London/Institute of Education, UK'This is a wonderful holdall of an interdisciplinary book. We could call its content history, sociology, political economy, economic geography, economics, and social policy: and it is packed full of fascinating detail.' --Citizens IncomeTable of ContentsContents: 1. Neoliberalism Takes Over 2. Anti-slavery and the Secret of Human Rights 3. Adam Smith and American Individualism 4. Inequality, Welfare and the Cultivation of Character 5. American Ideology: Millennium and Utopia 6. Classes and Evolution 7. Sowing the Seeds of Neoliberalism 8. Education, Individualism and Inequality 9. An Introduction to People Management 10. From ‘Stupid’ to ‘Self-actualizing’ Workers 11. The Neoliberal Settlement 12. The Apotheosis of Individualism at Work 13. The Hidden Injuries of Cognitive Individualism 14. Insecurity, Intensification and Subordination 15. The Future of Work and Politics Index

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Book SynopsisThere is a clear trend in rich countries that, despite rising incomes and living standards, the gap between rich and poor is widening. What does this mean for our health? Does increasing income inequality affect outcomes such as obesity, life expectancy and subjective well-being? Are rich and poor groups affected in the same ways? This book reviews the latest research on the relationship between inequality and health, and provides a pedagogical introduction to the tools and knowledge needed to understand and assess the vast literature on the subject. The book includes discussion of the definitions and measurement of objective and subjective health and income inequality, and illustrates how various measures have been developed in different countries. Main conclusions from the literature are then summarized and discussed critically. It incorporates a substantial research overview of the field, as well as a detailed debate of the empirical challenges that arise during research. The book concludes that results are surprisingly contradictory, but that several studies have found that higher inequality is directly linked to lower subjective well-being.Students and scholars in public health, social work, economics, and sociology will find this book an essential exposition of conceptual issues and empirical methods applied to the controversial topic of the health consequences of inequality.Trade Review'With this book Bergh, Nilsson and Waldenstrom bring a nuanced contribution to a research field torn by controversies and heated polemics. In a clear and pedagogical manner the authors sift through the research and weigh the evidence. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between income inequalities and health.' --Stefan Fors, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden'A terrific analysis of one of the big questions in social science. This engaging book distils the wisdom of hundreds of academic studies, while doing justice to the complexity of the issues.' --Andrew Leigh, Economist and Australian ParliamentarianTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Measuring Health 3. Measuring Inequality 4. How Can Economic Inequality Influence Health? 5. Correlation Or Causality? Interpreting Scatter Plots And Regressions 6. The Ecological Fallacy: What Conclusions Can Be Drawn From Group Averages? 7. Income Inequality And Health: What Does The Literature Tell Us? 8. Searching For The Inequality Effect: What Tools Are Appropriate? 9. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThere is a clear trend in rich countries that, despite rising incomes and living standards, the gap between rich and poor is widening. What does this mean for our health? Does increasing income inequality affect outcomes such as obesity, life expectancy and subjective well-being? Are rich and poor groups affected in the same ways? This book reviews the latest research on the relationship between inequality and health, and provides a pedagogical introduction to the tools and knowledge needed to understand and assess the vast literature on the subject. The book includes discussion of the definitions and measurement of objective and subjective health and income inequality, and illustrates how various measures have been developed in different countries. Main conclusions from the literature are then summarized and discussed critically. It incorporates a substantial research overview of the field, as well as a detailed debate of the empirical challenges that arise during research. The book concludes that results are surprisingly contradictory, but that several studies have found that higher inequality is directly linked to lower subjective well-being.Students and scholars in public health, social work, economics, and sociology will find this book an essential exposition of conceptual issues and empirical methods applied to the controversial topic of the health consequences of inequality.Trade Review'With this book Bergh, Nilsson and Waldenstrom bring a nuanced contribution to a research field torn by controversies and heated polemics. In a clear and pedagogical manner the authors sift through the research and weigh the evidence. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between income inequalities and health.' --Stefan Fors, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden'A terrific analysis of one of the big questions in social science. This engaging book distils the wisdom of hundreds of academic studies, while doing justice to the complexity of the issues.' --Andrew Leigh, Economist and Australian ParliamentarianTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Measuring Health 3. Measuring Inequality 4. How Can Economic Inequality Influence Health? 5. Correlation Or Causality? Interpreting Scatter Plots And Regressions 6. The Ecological Fallacy: What Conclusions Can Be Drawn From Group Averages? 7. Income Inequality And Health: What Does The Literature Tell Us? 8. Searching For The Inequality Effect: What Tools Are Appropriate? 9. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisFrom an international comparative perspective, this third book in the prestigious eduLIFE Lifelong Learning series provides a thorough investigation into how social inequalities arise during individuals' secondary schooling careers. Paying particular attention to the role of social origin and prior performance, it focuses on tracking and differentiation in secondary schooling, examining the short- and long-term effects on inequality of opportunities. It looks at ways in which differentiation in secondary education might produce and reproduce social inequalities in educational opportunities and educational attainment. Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality brings together a number of cross-national and country studies conducted by well-known experts in the field. In contrast to existing empirical research, this book reconstructs individuals educational careers step-by-step, providing a longitudinal perspective essential for an appropriate understanding of the dynamics of inequalities in secondary education. The international viewpoint allows for an illuminating comparison in light of the different models, rules and procedures that regulate admission selection and learning in different countries. This book will be of great interest to policymakers, researchers and professional experts in the field, including sociologists, pedagogues, international political scientists and economists, and also serves as a major text for postgraduate and postdoctoral courses. Contributors include: A. Basler, C. Blank, H.-P. Blossfeld, Y. Brinbaum, S. Buchholz, M. Buchmann, W. Carbonaro, J. Chesters, D. Contini, J. Dämmrich, H. Ditton, J. Dronkers, J. Erola, R. Erikson, H. Esser, G. Farges, H. Fend, E. Grodsky, C. Guégnard, M. Haynes, A.C. Holtmann, D. Horn, C. Iannelli, C. Imdorf, A. Karhula, M. Kazjulja, T. Keller, E. Kilpi-Jakonen, M. Klein, M. Koomen, R. Korthals, Y. Kosyakova, I. Kriesi, N. Kulic, D. Kurakin, W. Lauterbach, P. McMullin, S. Møllegaard, J. Murdoch, P. Róbert, F. Rudolphi, E. Saar, A. Schier, S. Schührer, Y. Shavit, J. Skopek, E. Smyth, K. Täht, E. Tenret, M. Triventi, S. Wahler, F. Wohlkinger, M. Yaish, D. Yanbarisova, G. Yastrebov, M. ZielonkaTrade Review'The strength of this exceptional volume is that readers will be able to find out about one of the major social facts resulting in educational inequalities - and to do this in a way that is not only free of ideological implications but also based completely on sound empirical evidence.' --From the Foreword by Rolf Becker, University of Bern, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Rolf Becker PART I: INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 1. Secondary school systems and inequality of educational opportunity in contemporary societies Moris Triventi, Nevena Kulic, Jan Skopek, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld 2. The model of ability tracking – Theoretical expectations and empirical findings on how educational systems impact on educational success and inequality Hartmut Esser PART II: COMPARATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS 3. From primary school to young adulthood – A cross-national analysis of cognitive competencies and related social inequalities Johanna Dämmrich and Moris Triventi 4. Excellence through equality of opportunity – Increasing the social inclusiveness of education systems benefits disadvantaged students without harming advantaged students Anne Christine Holtmann PART III: THE EARLY TRACKING MODEL 5. Secondary school differentiation and inequality of educational opportunity in Germany Sandra Buchholz, Jan Skopek, Markus Zielonka, Hartmut Ditton, Florian Wohlkinger, and Antonia Schier 6. Educational mobility and equal opportunity in different German tracking systems – Findings from the LifE study Wolfgang Lauterbach and Helmut Fend 7. Differentiation in secondary education and inequality in educational opportunities: The case of Switzerland Marlis Buchmann, Irene Kriesi, Maarten Koomen, Christian Imdorf, and Ariane Basler 8. Early tracking and competition – A recipe for major inequalities in Hungary Dániel Horn, Tamás Keller, and Péter Róbert 9. Tracking in the Netherlands – Ability selection or social reproduction? Jaap Dronkers and Roxanne Korthals PART IV: THE NORDIC INCLUSIVE MODEL 10. Social selection in formal and informal tracking in Sweden Frida Rudolphi and Robert Erikson 11. Inequalities in the haven of equality? Upper secondary education and entry into tertiary education in Finland Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Jani Erola, and Aleksi Karhula 12. Educational inequalities in tracked Danish upper secondary education Susanne Wahler, Sandra Buchholz, and Stine Møllegaard PART V: THE INDIVIDUAL CHOICE MODEL 13. Onwards or upwards? – The role of subject choice and schools in there reproduction of educational inequality in England Patricia McMullin and Nevena Kulic 14. School subject choices and social class differences in entry to higher education – Comparing Scotland and Ireland Markus Klein, Christina Iannelli, and Emer Smyth 15. Reproduction of inequality in educational attainment through curricular differentiation in secondary school – A case study of the USA Susanne Schührer, William Carbonaro, and Eric Grodsky 16. Reproducing social inequality within comprehensive school systems – The case of Australia Jenny Chesters and Michele Haynes PART VI: THE MIXED TRACKING MODEL 17. The long-term outcomes of early educational differentiation in France Géraldine Farges, Elise Tenret, Yaël Brinbaum, Christine Guégnard, and Jake Murdoch 18. Between formal openness and stratification in secondary education: Implications for social inequalities in Italy Dalit Contini and Moris Triventi 19. The reproduction of social inequality within the Russian educational system Yuliya Kosyakova, Gordey Yastrebov, Diana Yanbarisova, and Dmitry Kurakin 20. Educational inequalities in secondary education in Estonia –Transitions and tracking Kadri Täht, Ellu Saar, and Margarita Kazjulja 21. Tracking and attainment in Israeli secondary education Carmel Blank, Yossi Shavit, and Meir Yaish PART VII: CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION 22. Varieties of secondary education models and social inequality – Conclusions from a large-scale international comparison Moris Triventi, Jan Skopek, Nevena Kulic, Sandra Buchholz, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld Index

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Book SynopsisRecognizing that social change over recent decades has strengthened the need for early childhood education and care, this book seeks to answer what role this plays in creating and compensating for social inequalities in educational attainment. Compiling 13 cross-national and multidisciplinary empirical studies on three interrelated topics, this book explores how families from different social backgrounds decide between types of childcare, how important parental care and resources at home are for children's educational success and the consequences of early education and care for children's diverging educational destinies. Analysing a currently neglected area in sociological research, expert contributors employ the most recent country-specific longitudinal datasets in order to provide an up-to-date portrayal of the patterns and mechanisms of early educational inequality. With its extended analytical window ranging from short- to long-term educational outcomes this book will undoubtedly appeal to students and scholars in the fields of childcare, education, and social inequality. It also contains important suggestions and evidence for practitioners and policymakers trying to combat inequality in educational opportunities.Contributors include: M. Attig, H.-P. Blossfeld, S. Blömeke, A. Breinholt, Y. Brilli, M. Broekhuizen, S. Buchholz, J. Dämmrich, E. Dearing, D. Del Boca, A.-Z. Duvander, J. Erola, G. Esping-Andersen, E.C. Frede, A. Karhula, E. Kilpi-Jakonen, Y. Kosyakova, N. Kulic, P. Leseman, F. McGinnity, P. McMullin, T. Moser, H. Mulder, A. Murray, D. Piazzalunga, C. Pronzato, H.-G. Roßbach, H. Russell, J. Skopek, P. Slot, W. Steven Barnett, M. Triventi, S. van Schaik, J. Verhagen, I. Viklund, S. Wahler, S. Weinert, G. Yastrebov, H.D. ZachrissonTrade Review'This book provides a multidisciplinary and international perspective on early childhood inequalities. It offers a rich collection of empirical analysis addressing the questions of why early inequalities develop, and what can be done to address them. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the development of educational inequalities during the earliest years of children's lives.' --Alice Sullivan, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Part I: Introduction 1. Childcare, early education, and social inequality: Perspectives for a cross-national and multidisciplinary study Nevena Kulic, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld Part II: Patterns of care arrangements 2. Who cares for the children? Family social position and childcare arrangements in Italy, 2002-12 Ylenia Brilli, Nevena Kulic, and Moris Triventi 3. Early education and care in Post-Soviet Russia: Social policy and inequality patterns Yuliya Kosyakova and Gordey Yastrebov 4. Time on leave, timing of preschool – The role of socioeconomic background for preschool start in Sweden Ida Viklund and Ann-Zofie Duvander Part III: The role of family care quality 5. The emergence of social disparities – Evidence on early mother–child interaction and infant development from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) Sabine Weinert, Manja Attig, and Hans Günther Roßbach 6. Social inequality in cognitive outcomes in Ireland: What is the role of the home-learning environment and childcare? Frances McGinnity, Patricia McMullin, Aisling Murray, and Helen Russell Part IV: Consequences of care and preschool for early and later educational outcomes 7. Preschool and reading competencies – A cross-national analysis Johanna Dämmrich and Gøsta Esping-Andersen 8. Long-term effects of a system of high-quality universal preschool education in the United States W. Steven Barnett and Ellen C. Frede 9. Effectiveness of Dutch targeted preschool education policy for disadvantaged children: Evidence from the Pre-COOL study Paul Leseman, Hanna Mulder, Josje Verhagen, Martine Broekhuizen, Saskia van Schaik, and Pauline Slot 10. What levels the playing field for socioeconomically disadvantaged children in the Norwegian ECEC model? Henrik D. Zachrisson, Eric Dearing, Sigrid Blömeke, and Thomas Moser 11. Early childcare, child cognitive outcomes, and inequalities in the United Kingdom Daniela Del Boca, Daniela Piazzalunga, and Chiara Pronzato 12. Entry to formal childcare and abilities of preschoolers: A comparison of East and West Germany Jan Skopek 13. Childcare arrangements at preschool age and later child outcomes in Denmark: The role of maternal education and type of care Susanne Wahler, Sandra Buchholz, and Asta Breinholt 14. Home sweet home? Long-term educational outcomes of childcare arrangements in Finland Aleksi Karhula, Jani Erola, and Elina Kilpi-Jakonen Part V: Discussion and conclusions 15. Childcare, early education and compensation of educational (dis)advantage – Evidence from a multidisciplinary and international project Jan Skopek, Nevena Kulic, Moris Triventi, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld Index

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Book SynopsisSocial Inequality Across the Generations provides an innovative perspective on social stratification studies by advancing the theoretical and empirical case for the influence of resource compensation. It examines whether resource compensation is a successful mechanism for social mobility, contrasting it against competing types of resource accumulation such as multiplication. So, this book is the first to extensively cover the role of compensation in intergenerational attainment - a new and rapidly spreading concept in stratification research. The editors bring together research on different types of resources contributing to social mobility from the nuclear family, extended family and society, including in-depth analysis of the influence of wider family members in three different contexts and specific empirical chapters covering European and US societies. The authors cover a variety of institutional systems that achieve similar results through contrasting methods, and this conceptual framework reveals which policies have the biggest effect on social mobility. The book offers original insight into intergenerational inequality and mobility for researchers and students of social stratification research and social mobility, particularly within sociology, social policy and economics.Contributors include: F. Bernardi, H.-P. Blossfeld, D. Boertien, J. Erola, M. Grätz, J. Helemäe, M. Kainu, J. Kallio, O. Kangas, E. Kilpi-Jakonen, H. Lehti, A. Minello, J. Palme, F.T. Pfeffer, I. Prix, H. Pöyliö, E. Saar, Ø.N. WiborgTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction 1. Compensation and other forms of accumulation in intergenerational social inequality Jani Erola and Elina Kilpi-Jakonen Part II: Intra-familial compensation 2. The role of economic and cultural resources in the intergenerational transmission of education in Estonia Ellu Saar and Jelena Helemäe 3. Do families display compensatory behaviour following parental separation? A study of the impact of separation on family life by social background Diederik Boertien 4. Parental responses to disadvantageous life events: The month of birth penalty in England Michael Grätz and Fabrizio Bernardi Part III: Extra-familial compensation 5. How do aunts and uncles compensate for low parental education in children’s educational attainment? Hannu Lehti and Jani Erola 6. Does Donald need Uncle Scrooge? Extended-family wealth and children’s educational attainment in the United States Irene Prix and Fabian Pfeffer 7. Family wealth and school grades in Norway: Exploring how immediate and extended family wealth matter for children’s school performance Øyvind N. Wiborg Part IV: Institutional compensation 8. Can adult education compensate for early disadvantages? The role of adult education in reducing inequalities for German men and women Alessandra Minello and Hans-Peter Blossfeld 9. The multifaceted roles of the social investment state in compensating, accumulating and multiplying endowments over the life cycle Olli Kangas, Joakim Palme and Markus Kainu 10. The impact of education and family policies on intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status in Europe Heta Pöyliö and Johanna Kallio Index

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Book SynopsisThis book studies the relationships between aggregate demand, inequality and instability. It extends the traditional approach by introducing wealth and inequality into a dynamic macroeconomic model. Furthermore, it examines the role that debt and financial instability can play in turbulent times such as the Great Recession and its aftermath.Unlike Piketty, the author analyzes the relationships between instability and inequality, and the feedbacks from the latter to the former, in a system approach where real and monetary factors interact to generate complex patterns. The book does not discover 'iron laws' because the results depend on the nature of the model, the values of the parameters and the policy pursued. However, the role of inequality is proven to play a decisive role in shaping dynamics. Finally, the author discusses the link between medium and long- run problems, and the challenges that remain to be faced.Piero Ferri's original application of economic principles to the topic of inequality will make this book essential reading for all economists, particularly those of a macro orientation.Trade Review'Piero Ferri is one of the most sophisticated economists with a firm grasp of the economic methodologies necessary to understand our complex and unstable economies, which he has studied for many years. He now adds to his modelling of Minsky processes, studies of income inequality that highlight and illuminate the key issues that bother us today. This book is essential reading for the professional economist.' --Jan Toporowski, SOAS, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction PART I: Basic Concepts 2. Piketty’s Contribution 3. Measurement 4. Inequality and Aggregate Demand PART II: Endogenous Dynamics and Instability 5. Aggregate Demand, Growth and Instability 6. Wealth, Public Debt and Instability 7. Recursive Workhorses PART III: The Macro Inference of Inequality 8. Rent, Wealth and Bubbles 9. A Model with Heterogeneous Supply 10. Wealth and Capital Gains in Financial Markets PART IV: Inequality, Finance and Instability 11. Inequality and the Financial Instability Hypothesis 12. Instability in a Regime Switching Model PART V: Concluding Remarks 13. A Summary 14. The Challenges Index

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Book SynopsisRising inequalities are a defining challenge of our times and a crucial obstacle to the realization of the SDGs. The need to accelerate steps towards the reduction of growing disparities within and among countries is well realised. Responding to that need, this book aims to understand the types, drivers, consequences and impact of inequalities in broad contexts across groups and individuals, as well as societies and states. Defining inequality as the social, economic and political challenges of our time, the authors examine SDG10 to look ahead at how policy action might engage multiple stakeholders, involve diverse sectors and address gaps between policy and implementation to tackle inequalities and facilitate the advancement of the SDG agenda.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Background Chapter 2. Understanding Inequalities Chapter 3. Changing Perceptions of Inequalities Chapter 4. Types and Drivers of Inequalities Chapter 5. Multi-Dimensional Implications of Inequalities Chapter 6. Inequalities Requiring Policy Action Chapter 7. Some Reflections and Concluding Remarks

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Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays and commentary considers not merely how history has shaped the continuing struggle for racial equality, but also how backlash and resistance to racial reforms continue to dictate the state of race in America. Informed by a broad historical perspective, this book focuses primarily on the promise of Reconstruction, and the long demise of that promise. It traces the history of struggles for racial justice from the post US Civil War Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights decades of the 1950s and 1960s to the present day. The book uses psychological, historical and political perspectives to put today?s struggles for justice in historical perspective, considering intersecting dynamics of race and class in inequality and the different ways that different people understand history. Ultimately, the authors question Martin Luther King, Jr.?s contention that the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice, challenging portrayals of race relations and the realization of civil rights laws as a triumph narrative. Scholars in history, political science and psychology as well as graduate students in these fields can use the issues explored in this book as a foundation for their own work on race, justice and American history.Contributors include: E.L. Ayers, T.J. Brown, S. Fein, C.N. Harold, J.M. Hayter, C.F. Irons, J.P. Thompson, E.R. Varon, K.E. Williams, E.S. YellinTrade Review'Julian Maxwell Hayter and George R. Goethals have edited an outstanding collection of essays dealing with the repeated efforts to forge a more inclusive republic in the decades after the American Civil War. In elegantly-crafted pieces ranging from the war years to the heights of the first Reconstruction era, and from the 1960s to the troubled present, these established scholars weave together often-forgotten stories of struggles for racial justice. Tragically, many of them remind us that old victories are rarely permanent, and that the fight continues. An important volume for all studying the long arc of Reconstructions in America.' --Douglas R. Egerton, author of The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era'This diverse collection of nine essays examining the short and long term dimensions of Reconstruction offers a rich variety of perspectives for this critical period's impact on our nation's history and contemporary American life.' --Robert Kenzer, University of Richmond, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Julian Maxwell Hayter 1. The arc of racial stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination: social psychological perspectives Steven Fein 2. How the enemies of Reconstruction created Reconstruction Edward L. Ayers 3. Urban black protestants and the predicament of emancipation Charles F. Irons 4. Never get over it: night-riding’s imprint on African American victims Kidada E. Williams 5. Veteran, author, activist: Joseph T. Wilson of Norfolk and black leadership in the Civil War era Elizabeth R. Varon 6. The post-emancipation city of the dead Thomas J. Brown 7. To end divisions: reflections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Julian Maxwell Hayter 8. What about us? African American workers and the struggle for economic justice in the age of diversity Claudrena N. Harold 9. Forging a unified proletariat: relocating working class agency J. Phillip Thompson Conclusion. Reconstructions: lessons for racial (in)justice in America Eric S. Yellin Index

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Book SynopsisInternational debate has recently focused on increased inequalities and the adverse effects that they may have on both social and economic developments. Income inequality, which is at its highest level for the past half-century, may not only undermine the sustainability of European social policy but also put at risk Europe?s sustainable recovery. A common feature of recent reports on inequality (ILO, OECD, IMF, 2015?2017) is their recognition that the causes emerge from mechanisms in the world of work. The purpose of this book is to investigate the possible role of industrial relations, and social policies more generally, in reducing these inequalities.The volume pays particular attention to the contribution of social partners and social dialogue to achieving concrete outcomes, notably in terms of flexibility and security for both employers and workers. The key aim is to identify elements of a response to a number of important questions: which countries have succeeded in carrying out the necessary reforms without generating further inequalities? What industrial relations systems seem to perform better in this respect? What policy measures, institutions and actors play a determinant role in achieving more balanced outcomes? How can social dialogue address future transformations of the world of work, while limiting inequalities?The scope of this volume goes beyond pay to address other types of inequality ? in the distribution of working time, access or re-access to jobs, training and career opportunities, and social protection and pensions. It also looks at inequalities that may affect particular groups of workers, including women or young people, as well as people in certain types of work arrangements, such as part-time or temporary work or the self-employed.This book is vital reading for anyone concerned with labour policy, industrial relations and social welfare but, above all, with how advances in these areas can contribute to the global fight against growing inequalities.Contributors include: D. Anxo, B. Bembic, G. Bosch, P. Courtioux, C. Erhel, K. Espenberg, G. Fiorani, G. Giakoumatos, D. Grimshaw, M. Johnson, M. Karamessini, I. Marx, J. Masso, I. Mierina, R. Muñoz de Bustillo, B. Nolan, F. Pinto Hernández, W. Salverda, A. Simonazzi, M. Tverdostup, L. Van Cant, D. Vaughan-Whitehead, R. Vazquez-AlvarezTrade Review‘I strongly recommend it to any scholar interested in this important topic.’ -- John D Stephens, Journal of Social Policy‘Within its prescribed orbit, this is a useful book for those wishing to examine recent shifts and interactions between industrial relations regimes and inequality.’ -- Michael Quinlan, Emeritus Professor, Industrial RelationsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Curbing Inequalities in Europe: The Impact of Industrial Relations and Labour Policies Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead and Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez 2. Labour Market Inequalities in Conditions of Limited Social Dialogue: The Case of the Baltic States Jaan Masso, Maryna Tverdostup, Inta Mierina and Kerly Espenberg 3. Belgium: Is Robust Social Concertation Providing a Buffer against Growing Inequality? Ive Marx and Lien Van Cant 4. Social Dialogue in France under Pressure: Can Worker Security be achieved in a Context of Increasing Job Flexibility? Pierre Courtioux and Christine Erhel 5. Social Dialogue in Germany: Innovation or Erosion? Gerhard Bosch 6. Industrial Relations, Imposed Flexibility and Inequality during the Greek Great Depression Maria Karamessini and Stefanos Giakoumatos 7. Social Dialogue and Inequality: Ireland Brian Nolan 8. Italy: Industrial Relations and Inequality in a Recessionary Environment Annamaria Simonazzi and Giuseppe Fiorani 9. The Netherlands: Is the Polder Model Behind the Curve with Regard to Growing Household Income Inequality? Wiemer Salverda 10. Changes in Inequality Outcomes alongside Industrial Relations Transformation in Slovenia Branko Bembič 11. Industrial Relations and Inequality in the Spanish Labour Market: Resilience and Change Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo and Fernando Pinto Hernández 12. Shaping the Future of Work in Sweden: The Crucial Role of Social Partnership Dominique Anxo 13. Inequality at Work in the United Kingdom: How Perforated Industrial Relations Worsen Inequalities and Hold Back Progress on Equalities Damian Grimshaw and Mat Johnson Index

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Book SynopsisEurope is ageing. However, in many European countries, and in almost all fields of life, older persons experience discrimination, social exclusion, and negative stereotypes that portray them as different or a burden to society. This pivotal book is the first of its kind, providing a rich and diverse analysis of the inter-relationships between ageing, ageism and law within Europe.Throughout the book - which builds on a European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST) action - leading scholars offer theoretical and empirical analysis in order to discern the role European law plays in perpetuating and combating ageism. Including specific examples of how stereotypes and prejudices influence and shape the European legal system, the book contributes to the broader current global social movement towards advancing a new international human rights convention for older persons.Timely and engaging, this book will appeal to students and scholars of law, sociology, public policy and a wide range of related fields including gerontology, human rights, and health-studies. Practitioners, policy-makers, civil society organizations and senior citizens activists will also benefit from the insights into the socio-legal aspects of social policies and human rights of older persons.Contributors include: P. de Hert, M. De Pauw, I. Doron, N. Georgantzi, A. Gur, R. Harding, E. Mantovani, T. Mattsson, B. Mikolajczyk, A. Numhauser-Henning, G. Quinn, P. Quinn, B. Spanier, B. Sleap, J. WatsonTrade Review'This is an excellent collection of essays from some of the leading scholars on ageing and the law. It brings new insights from around Europe on one of the great issues of the day. Protecting the rights of older people is a core issue facing any legal system and this collection provides essential tools to ensure that the law enables us to have a flourishing old age.' --Jonathan Herring, University of Oxford, UK'A ground-breaking, stimulating, and beautifully curated collection that will become the leading book in this urgently important and under-discussed area of the law.' --Charles Foster, University of Oxford, UK'Ageing, Ageism and the Law offers insightful commentary on the issues of ageing, ageism and discrimination from various perspectives. The book provides the reader with a deeper understanding of the issues as the authors delve into their topics with insightfulness. This thought-provoking book is a welcome addition to the field and advances the discourse on this significant issue.' --Rebecca C. Morgan, Stetson University, College of Law, USTable of ContentsContents: Forward Liat Ayalon and Clemens Tesch-Romer Introduction: Between Law, Aging and Ageism Israel (Issi) Doron and Nena Georgantzi Part I Theories and Concepts 1. Equality, Social Justice and Older People Rosie Harding 2. Age, Vulnerability and Disability Titti Mattsson 3. Ageism, Moral Agency, and Autonomy - Getting Beyond Guardianship in the 21st Century Gerard Quinn, Ayelet Gur and Jo Watson Part II Realities and Legal Experiences 4. Legal Basis of Active Ageing: European Developments Barbara Mikołajczyk 5. Ageism, Age Discrimination, Ageism, and Employment Law in the EU… Ann Numhauser-Henning 6. Stereotyping and Other “Forms of Discrimination in the Chicago Declaration on the Rights of Older Persons and in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights Eugenio Mantovani, Paul Quinn and Paul de Hert 7. The European Social Charter and the Rights of Older Persons Benny Spanier and Israel Doron 8. Ageism and Age Discrimination in International Human Rights Law Marijke De Pauw, Bridget Sleap and Nena Georgantzi Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique Handbook charts shifts in the relationship between risks and inequalities over the last few decades, analysing how inequalities shape risk and how risks condition and intensify inequalities. Expert contributors examine the impacts of environmental, financial, social, urban, economic, and digital risks on inequalities, at both national and global levels.Identifying how the rise of novel risk formations is associated with changes in contemporary political economies, chapters explore new areas of research including the new urban crisis, the gendered impacts of precarious labour and social inequality in relation to agro-biotechnology. Contributing to an underdeveloped area of research, the Handbook breaks new ground to explore how tackling important issues via the prism of risk and inequality can provide novel insights, that solely focusing on only one or the other of these issues cannot.This Handbook will be critical reading for scholars and students of sociology, sociological theory, geography and political science. Its exploration of shifts in contemporary socially produced risks will also be beneficial for practitioners, economists and policy makers in these areas.Trade Review‘A timely examination of the intersection of risks and inequalities in our “world at risk”, this Handbook brings together innovative theoretical analysis and significant empirical insights. It wholly fulfils its promise to address a gap in the current debate and to delineate novel approaches for understanding the effects of man-made risks across groups, domains, and societies.’ -- Maria Grazia Galantino, Sapienza University of Rome, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Preface xiii 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Risk and Inequality 1 Dean Curran PART I DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF RISK 2 Finance, risk, and inequality 17 Thibault Darcillon 3 Dimensions of risk and environmental inequality 39 David N. Pellow 4 Risk and (welfare state) politics 53 Philipp Rehm 5 Changing risks, individualisation and inequality in a recast welfare state 70 Klaus Rasborg 6 Digital risk and inequality 88 Elizabeth Cameron and Dean Curran PART II THEORIZING RISKS AND INEQUALITY 7 Actor, structure and inequality: an intersectional perspective of risk 107 Katarina Giritli Nygren, Anna Olofsson and Susanna Öhman 8 Risk and new realities: social ontology, expertise and individualization in the risk society 128 Philip Walsh 9 Corporations, class and the normalization of risk 143 Laureen Snider and Steven Bittle 10 Risk and trust: ethnomethodological orientations to risk theorizing 163 Patrick G. Watson PART III SPECIAL TOPICS AND NEW AREAS OF RESEARCH 11 Inequality rising: the gendered impacts of precarious labor and financialization 179 Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar and Aleena Shafique 12 Beyond the spirit of the new urban crisis: risk-class and resonance 194 David Tyfield 13 Science, food, and risk: ecological disasters and social inequality under the GMO regime 233 Md Saidul Islam 14 Risk society and epistemic inequality: rising voices from the ‘Global South’ in global governance 247 Joy Y. Zhang 15 The political economy of climate vulnerability: searching for common ground in a retrotopian world 261 David Champagne Index

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Book SynopsisInequalities and the Progressive Era features contributors from all corners of the world, each exploring a different type of inequality during the Progressive Era (1890s-1930s). Though this era is most associated with the United States, it corresponds to a historical period in which profound changes and progress are realized or expected all over the globe. The original and international perspectives of the book make it possible to examine important issues or authors of the Progressive Era, who have at times been neglected or insufficiently discussed. This analysis allows us both to know more about this key period of the history of capitalism, and to consider contemporary debates regarding the treatment of inequalities with a pluralistic approach. Academics and students of all levels, from PhD and Master degree students to undergrads will appreciate the original focus on the roots and treatments of inequalities, and this innovative collaboration between researchers of various fields in social sciences. Contributors include: V. Babashkin, T. Briggs, B. Buarque de Hollanda, C. Castelain-Meunier, V. Chassagnon, R.W. Dimand, B. Dubrion, O. Goerg, F. Granda, O. Lakomski-Laguerre, C. Maumi, S. Meardon, A. Millmow, C. Morrisson, T. N'Diaye, A. Nikulin, J.N. Parker, S. Pressman, M. Rocca, C. Schrecker, F. Sember, R. Skidelsky, H. Tanaka, P. Thane, G. ValletTrade Review‘This collection of essays is a valuable reference for anyone interested in inequality. Its wide breadth, both in terms of topics and geographical coverage, and the sociological and institutional perspective that permeates most of the contributions, provide insights often lacking in other works on the same topic.’ -- Emanuele Citera, Review of Political Economy‘The collection itself is fascinating in the scope of the material. Many of those identified here as Progressives are absent from the orthodox treatments of the subject, which has been for the most part confined to a specific period in the economic and social history of the United States.’ -- Charles R McCann Jr, History of Economic Ideas'Rising inequality in late 19th and early 20th centuries US led to the development between 1920 and 1980 of the most successful and ambitious progressive tax system ever experimented. If you want to know more about the intellectual roots of the progressive era, you should read this great collection of essays. A fascinating book.' --Thomas Piketty, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Paris School of Economics, France'This remarkable and carefully curated volume is an invaluable roadmap to the treatment of inequalities during the fascinating and often misunderstood Progressive Era. As Guillaume Vallet and his contributors argue there is much to be learned about this transformative era of political, economic, and social reform. Today, we confront a wide range of unacceptable inequalities. Academics, policymakers, and activists should look to this volume for inspiration as they design and advocate pathways out of the present morass.' --Ilene Grabel, University of Denver, US'Although ''The Progressive Era'' is usually understood as the period from 1900 to 1917 in the United States during which major political, social, and economic reforms took place, the authors of the twenty-two essays about more than a dozen countries on five continents in this volume broaden the geographical and chronological (1890s-1930s) focus on similar reform activities. Current efforts to address the problem of increasing inequalities of wealth and income in our own time can benefit from the perspectives provided by these studies of a similar problem a century ago.' --James M. McPherson, Princeton University, US and author of Battle Cry of Freedom; The Civil War EraTable of ContentsContents: Preface Stephany Griffith-Jones Introduction Guillaume Vallet I. Foundations of inequalities 1. The question of inequalities during the Progressive Era in the United States: The “Golden Mean” program of the economist Richard T. Ely Michel Rocca 2. The progressive view of old institutionalism: Business ethics, industrial democracy and reasonable capitalism Virgile Chassagnon and Benjamin Dubrion 3. Inequalities and the dynamics of capitalism: Will democracy survive? Albion W. Small’s view Guillaume Vallet 4. Forgetting and remembering the Chicago school of Colombus, Ohio: Roderick D. McKenzie, neighborhoods, and inequality Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker 5. Progressive values and institutional realities at the New School for Social Research Cherry Schrecker 6. Progressive economic thought in interwar Australia Alex Millmow 7. Repeated disappearance: Why was progressivism forgotten in Japanese economics? Hidetomi Tanaka II. Fighting income, capital and land inequalities 8. Income inequality: A turning point, 1880–1930 Christian Morrisson 9. Inequalities in the United Kingdom: The “Progressive” Era, 1890s–1920s Patricia Thane 10. Distribution as a macroeconomic problem Robert Skidelsky 11. Land ownership as a mechanism for the reproduction of inequality in Ecuador from 1895 to 1920s Francisca Granda 12. Peasants, inequality and progress in the research of Alexander Chayanov: Russia and the world Vladimir Babashkin and Alexander Nikulin 13. Broadacre City: Frank Llyod Wright’s vision of an organic capitalism Catherine Maumi 14. The tariff question, the labor question, and Henry George’s triangulation Stephen Meardon III. Fighting social inequalities 15. Schumpeter’s view of social inequalities Odile Lakomski-Laguerre 16. W.E.B. Du Bois on poverty and racial inequality Steven Pressman and Thomas Briggs 17. A reconsideration of James Africanus Beale Horton of Sierra Leone (1835–1883) and his legacy Odile Goerg 18. Sol Plaatje: An intellectual giant in the 20th century history of black South Africa Tidiane N’Diaye and Guillaume Vallet 19. Stephen Leacock on political economy and the unsolved riddle of social justice Robert W. Dimand 20. Trailblazing feminists at the turn of the twentieth century: A focus on Marianne Weber and Lou-Andreas Salomé Christine Castelain-Meunier 21. Silvio Gesell’s vision on monetary reform: how to reduce social inequalities Florencia Sember 22. Football culture and sports history in Latin America: From the Progressive Era to contemporary times Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda Index

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Book SynopsisSocial tourism - the practice of offering programmes, events and activities to enable disadvantaged population groups to enjoy tourism - is of increasing interest to academia. Beginning with an introduction to the social tourism concept, its relevance and target groups, this book then provides reflections about emerging topics case studies of programmes in action across Europe, Oceania and the Americas. It considers the tourism experience from the point of view of young people, families, senior citizens and people with disabilities, before covering the impacts of social tourism initiatives on both participants and tourism destinations. It concludes by reflecting on the practical challenges and policy implications emerging from theory and practice, highlighting common challenges and identifying guidelines for designing social tourism initiatives. This book: Covers the challenges faced by the sector and the relevance of promoting tourism programmes for disadvantaged groups of society. Promotes research that bridges theory and practice, permitting the identification of guidelines for more effective social tourism initiatives. Includes case studies from around the world to provide a global perspective. An important read for researchers of tourism, social inclusion and accessibility, this book will therefore also be of interest to students and practitioners of these areas.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1: Introduction Part II: Social Tourism Around the World 1. Social Tourism in Greece: A Brief History of Development from the Interwar Years to the Covid-19 Era 2: Social Tourism in Mexico: Evolution, Challenges and Future Development 3: Challenges and Opportunities for Development of Social Tourism in Finland Part III: The Tourism Experience Lived by Different Target Groups of Social Tourism 4: Benefits of Social Tourism Programmes for Seniors: The Case of the INATEL Foundation in Portugal 5: Social Tourism Programmes for Seniors: The Case Study of Slovenia 6: Social Tourism for Seniors in Spain: An Example to be followed? 7: 'We need a vacation': Social Tourism Initiatives for Low-Income Families with Children with Disabilities 8: Disabled Children as Legitimate Research Participants: A Topic Omitted from Tourism Research? 9: ‘The best holidays I ever had’: The Benefits of Social Tourism Programmes for Children at Risk of Poverty and Social Exclusion 10: The Financial Accessibility of Children’s Camps: A French Challenge to Renew Their Popularity Part IV: Practical Challenges and Policy Implications 11: Social Tourism for Low-Income Families: Challenges and Practical Implications in Pursuing Social Innovation 12: What, and Who, is Social Tourism? The Roles of the Public, Private and Voluntary Sector in Social Tourism Provision in Flanders, Belgium 13: Social Tourism Policies: Critical Reflections Part V: Conclusion: Social Tourism – Global Challenges and Approaches in the Future 15: Social Tourism - Global Challenges and Approaches in the Future

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Book SynopsisInequalities are central to the public debate and social science research. They are inextricably linked to geographical space, shaping human mobility and migration patterns, creating diverse living environments and changing individuals’ perceptions of the society they live in and the inequalities that endure within it. Geographical space contributes to the emergence and perpetuation of inequalities between individuals according to their socioeconomic position, gender, ethno-racial origin or even their age. Inequalities in Geographical Space examines inequalities in education, in the workplace, in public and private spaces and those related to migration. Written by geographers, sociologists and economists, this book draws on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches and compares different spatial and temporal scales. It highlights the importance of geographical space as a vehicle for the expression, creation and reproduction of social, racial, economic and gender inequalities.Table of ContentsIntroduction xiClémentine COTTINEAU and Julie VALLÉE Chapter 1 The Spatial Dimension of Educational Inequalities 1Leïla FROUILLOU 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 School segregation as the central object of socio-geographical approaches to school inequalities 5 1.3 The spatial dimension of educational inequalities: from policies to trajectories 11 1.4 Conclusion: spatial dimension of inequalities and the interweaving of levels of analysis 19 1.5 References 20 Chapter 2 Socio-spatial Inequalities and Intersectionality 27Negar Élodie BEHZADI and Lucia DIRENBERGER 2.1 Relationships between power relations, inequalities and space 28 2.2 Work and socio-spatial inequalities 33 2.3 Othering processes and spaces: the place of the other 40 2.4 Agency and minority spaces 45 2.5 Conclusion 49 2.6 References 51 Chapter 3 Migration, Multi-situated Inequalities and the World Economy 61Laurence ROULLEAU-BERGER 3.1 Toward a sociology of inequalities and migrations 62 3.2 International cities and migrant workers 66 3.3 Multi-situated inequalities and biographical bifurcations 70 3.4 Moral careers and the struggle for recognition 72 3.5 The plurality and hierarchy of transnationalisms 74 3.6 Forced migration, downgrading and expulsions 78 3.7 Conclusion 80 3.8 References 80 Chapter 4 The Geographical Dimension of Inequalities in Access to Employment 85Philippe ASKENAZY and Verónica ESCUDERO 4.1 Introduction 85 4.2 Compensatory differences between territories 89 4.3 Immobility and spatial mismatch 91 4.4 The importance of couples' geographic trade-offs in individuals' access to employment 97 4.5 Labor market networks and access to employment 102 4.6 Digital space: the abolition of geographical constraints? 104 4.7 Conclusion 111 4.8 References 113 Chapter 5 The Perception of Inequality and Poverty in the Most Segregated, Affluent Neighborhoods 119Serge PAUGAM 5.1 Studying the perception of poverty 122 5.2 The constitution of a moral boundary 127 5.3 Keeping out the working class 130 5.4 Justifying class inequality and poverty 136 5.5 Conclusion 143 5.6 References 146 Chapter 6 Modeling Inequalities in Geographical Space 151Clémentine COTTINEAU 6.1 Introduction: different modeling formalisms for different purposes 151 6.2 Inequality in the distribution of economic resources and in its spatial distribution 152 6.3 Statistical regression models: estimating the effects of geographic location on inequality 160 6.4 Simulation models to explain and illustrate the dynamics of inequalities in geographical space 169 6.5 Conclusion 176 6.6 References 177 Chapter 7 A Critical Reading of Neighborhood-based Policies and their Geography 183Julie VALLÉE 7.1 A geography plagued by contradictions 184 7.2 Reductive policies 190 7.3 Temporal dynamics of priority neighborhoods 194 7.4 Conclusion 205 7.5 References 206 List of Authors 211 Index 213

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Book SynopsisTen Myths about the Jews analyzes the complex facets of anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism in an accessible and easy-to-read format. Based on wide research, Brazilian historian Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro examines different manifestations against Jews and their faith through history and political culture along the centuries. Ten omnipresent accusations were configured by anti-Semites in axioms that became myths: Myth 1: The Jews killed Christ. Myth 2: The Jews are a secret entity. Myth 3: The Jews control the world economy. Myth 4: There are no poor Jews. Myth 5: The Jews are greedy. Myth 6: The Jews have no homeland. Myth 7: The Jews are racists. Myth 8: The Jews are parasites. Myth 9: The Jews control the media. Myth 10: The Jews manipulate the United States. Tucci Carneiro unmasks the roots of anti-Semitism and exposes contemporary prejudices. Her book is an invitation to reflect upon current realities marked by racism and shows how the main myths about the Jews have been vested of a verisimilitude that has persisted for the last 2000 years, all over the world, by means of hatred of the other, political/religious opportunism and economic deceit. The myths are kept alive by means of constant repetition and re-elaboration of a particular narrative, invariably seductive. The author proves each of the ten myths in terms of their historical record, their origins and purposes. Even though Jews are fully integrated into western society in multiple ways (entrepreneurship, medicine, literature, philosophy, the arts), racist myths against the community have been particularly resilient; they attempt to override common sense and their continuous circulation and rehashing through scapegoating and caricature has had profound negative repercussions for society as a whole. Ten Myths, now published in five languages, is an essential tool in the struggle against the discourse of racist hatred.

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Book SynopsisInequality is back on the academic and political agenda. This book considers the extent and impact of social protection - including social assistance, social insurance, universal allowances and mandates - on inequality. The author illustrates how effectively designed and implemented forms of social protection can make significant contributions to reducing inequalities, promoting egalitarian ideals and achieving social justice. Critical and incisive, this book is essential reading for students and academics studying social protection and inequality. It will also be of interest to scholars in social policy, international social welfare and development studies, as well as practitioners and professionals in government and international agencies.Trade Review‘James Midgley provides a very helpful and insightful overview of the field of social protection.... A strength of this book is the wide scope that the author takes. Oftentimes books dealing with the social welfare state and safety net programs focus on either the OECD countries or the Global South. Midgley is adept at covering both. By doing so, the reader gains considerable insight into the differences and similarities across countries in attempting to protect their citizens from economic hardship and vulnerability.’ -- Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare‘This text is central to understanding how social protection can promote equality by using the intervention of the state in designing egalitarian policies as well as by international organisations reflecting on their own impact on inequality. This book is aimed at academics, policymakers and professionals looking for viable strategies connecting power and resources of the state to promote social justice in western countries and the Global South.’ -- Lorena Ossio Bustillos, European Journal of Social Security‘This book, by a renowned scholar in the social policy field, is a welcome addition to the literature. It provides a thorough analysis of some key issues. The fact that so much of the social policy literature adopts a narrow national approach makes the global focus of this book quite a breath of fresh air. There is also a good balance of historical overview and contemporary analysis. I enjoyed reading this book and my hope that it will not only be of help to students of social policy, political theory, sociology and social work in appreciating the significance of inequality, social protection and social justice, but also be of value to campaigners, activists, policy developers and others in seeking to create and sustain a more determined effort to tackle inequality and the social ills it so fully contributes to.’ -- Neil Thompson, International Journal of Social Welfare'The issue of inequality has returned to global agendas. James Midgley, the doyen of global social policy research, insists that social protection has a role to play in tackling inequality. He sets out an agenda of institutional reform that revitalizes the egalitarian claim of social protection, but stays away from simple cure-all solutions.' --Lutz Leisering, Bielefeld University, Germany'This volume is an important and timely contribution to the scholarship and policy debates on inequality and the role of state supported social protection schemes in mitigating it. Midgely's engaging and lucid text provides an integrated and comprehensive overview of real world programmes and evidence of their redistributive impact, while retaining historical and conceptual perspectives. In contrast to much of the literature in this area, the cases presented in this text come from both the global North and South and a more pluralistic account of social protection is provided which transcends traditional western notions of insurance, income transfers and credits. The text will be accessible and relevant for a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and an invaluable resource for all those interested in comparative social welfare.' --Rebecca Surender, University of Oxford, UK'This book makes a critically important contribution to the literature on inequality and on social policy What the reader learns from this superb study is that careful policy design, adequate funding and effective implementation are needed to ensure that social policies are effective in promoting equality and social justice. This work is yet another confirmation that Professor Midgley is among the most distinguished social policy scholars of our time and that social policy has a role in the establishment of societies that are more just and equitable.' --Silvia Borzutzky, Carnegie Mellon University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: Understanding and Addressing Inequality 1. Defining Inequality 2. The Dynamics of Inequality 3. Addressing Inequality Part II: Social Protection and Its Global Impact 4. Features of Social Protection 5. The Historical Evolution of Social Protection 6. Social Protection Goals and Impact Part III: Social Protection and Social Justice 7. Social Protection and Redistribution 8. Towards Egalitiarian Social Protection References Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the social implications of digital transformation, as well as demonstrating how we might use digital transformation to further sociological knowledge, this incisive Handbook provides an extensive overview of cutting-edge research on the digital turn of modern society.Bringing together contributions from more than 60 experts spanning a wide range of disciplines, Jan Skopek explores how digital technologies inextricably permeate the ways we go about our everyday lives, from how we seek information and carry out economic transactions to how we construct our identities and pursue and maintain social relationships. Chapters investigate timely issues related to social theory and social research in the digital age, including the study of online behaviour, digital social inequalities, and the micro- and macro-level consequences of digital technological change. Covering state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in digital sociology, this Research Handbook serves as a comprehensive resource for teaching and research in a continually developing field. Cross-disciplinary in scope, this dynamic Research Handbook will be essential reading for a diverse audience of academics, researchers, students, and practitioners, particularly in the fields of sociology, demography, computer and information sciences, economics, business, and psychology.Trade Review‘This Handbook provides a rich and wide range of research using digital tools and approaches. The chapters cover a variety of domains and provide an excellent overview of the state of the art in the field.’ -- Ralph Schroeder, University of Oxford, UK‘As new digital technologies emerge and are taken into social worlds, so too, digital sociology is dynamic, changing over time. This comprehensive Handbook brings together a wide array of researchers, not only from sociology but also from cognate research areas, to ponder and work through how digital sociology might be practised today. There is much in this book to awaken the interest of academics and students; both those who are new to digital sociology and those looking to expand their horizons.’ -- Deborah Lupton, University of New South Wales, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction and overview to the Research Handbook on Digital Sociology 2 Jan Skopek 2 Social theory and the internet in everyday life 23 Pu Yan PART II RESEARCHING THE DIGITAL SOCIETY 3 Digital and computational demography 47 Ridhi Kashyap and R. Gordon Rinderknecht, with Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Sofia Gil-Clavel, André Grow, Jisu Kim, Douglas R. Leasure, Sophie Lohmann, Daniela V. Negraia, Daniela Perrotta, Francesco Rampazzo, Chia-Jung Tsai, Mark D. Verhagen, Emilio Zagheni, and Xinyi Zhao 4 Digital technologies and the future of social surveys 86 Marcel Das and Tom Emery 5 Mobile devices and the collection of social research data 100 Bella Struminskaya and Florian Keusch 6 Unlocking big data: at the crossroads of computer science and the social sciences 114 Oliver Posegga 7 Regression and machine learning 129 Lukas Erhard and Raphael Heiberger 8 Investigating social phenomena with agent-based models 145 Pablo Lucas and Thomas Feliciani 9 Inclusive digital focus groups: lessons from working with citizens with limited digital literacies 160 Elinor Carmi, Eleanor Lockley, and Simeon Yates PART III ANALYSING DIGITAL LIVES AND ONLINE INTERACTION 10 Social networking site use in professional contexts 178 Christine Anderl, Lea Baumann, and Sonja Utz 11 Online dating and relationship formation 194 Maureen Coyle and Cassandra Alexopoulos 12 Studying mate choice using digital trace data from online dating 210 Jan Skopek 13 Testing sociological theories with digital trace data from online markets 241 Wojtek Przepiorka 14 Using YouTube data for social science research 258 Johannes Breuer, Julian Kohne, and M. Rohangis Mohseni 15 Automated image analysis for studying online behaviour 278 Carsten Schwemmer, Saïd Unger, and Raphael Heiberger PART IV DIGITAL PARTICIPATION AND INEQUALITY 16 Social disparities in adolescents’ educational ICT use at home: how digital and educational inequalities interact 293 Birgit Becker 17 The early roots of the digital divide: socioeconomic inequality in children’s ICT literacy from primary to secondary schooling 307 Giampiero Passaretta and Carlos J. Gil-Hernández 18 Digital inequalities and adolescent mental health: the role of socioeconomic background, gender, and national context 328 Pablo Gracia, Melissa Bohnert, and Seyma Celik 19 The gender gap in digital skills in cross-national perspective 348 José-Luis Martínez-Cantos PART V CONSEQUENCES OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE 20 Doing family in the digital age 365 Claudia Zerle-Elsäßer, Alexandra N. Langmeyer, Thorsten Naab, and Stephan Heuberger 21 The mental health cost of swiping: is dating app use linked to greater stress and depressive symptoms? 379 Gina Potarca and Julia Sauter 22 Social media and well-being at work, at home, and in-between: a review 398 Julius Klingelhoefer and Adrian Meier 23 The digital transition of the economy and its consequences for the labour market 419 Werner Eichhorst and Gemma Scalise 24 Further training in the context of the digital transformation 433 Thomas Kruppe and Julia Lang 25 Digital campaigning: how digital media change the work of parties and campaign organizations and impact elections Research handbook on digital sociology 446 Andreas Jungherr Index

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Book SynopsisThe formulation ‘egalitarian strangeness’ is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple [Short Voyages to the Land of the People] (1990), a collection of essays by the contemporary French thinker Jacques Rancière. Perhaps best known for his theory of radical equality as set out in Le Maître ignorant [The Ignorant Schoolmaster] (1987), Rancière reflects on ways in which a hierarchical social order based on inequality can come to be unsettled. In the democracy of literature, for example, he argues that words and sentences serve to capture any life and to make it available to any reader. The present book explores embedded forms of social and cultural ‘apportionment’ in a range of modern and contemporary French texts (including prose fiction, socially engaged commentary, and autobiography), while also identifying scenes of class disturbance and egalitarian encounter. Part One considers the ‘refrain of class’ audible in works by Claude Simon, Charles Péguy, Marie Ndiaye, Thierry Beinstingel, and Gabriel Gauny and examines how these authors’ practices of language connect with that refrain. In Part Two, Hughes analyses forms of domination and dressage with reference to Simone Weil’s mid-1930s factory journal, Paul Nizan’s novel of class alienation Antoine Bloyé from the same decade, and Pierre Michon’s Vies minuscules [Small Lives] (1984) with its focus on obscure rural lives. The reflection on how these narratives draw into contiguity antagonistic identities is extended in Part Three, where individual chapters on Proust and the contemporary authors François Bon and Didier Eribon demonstrate ways in which enduring forms of cultural distribution are both consolidated and contested.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: By Way of RancièrePART I: THE REFRAIN OF CLASSChapter 1 Events and Sensibility in Claude Simon’s L’AcaciaChapter 2 ‘Les Savoirs de la main’: Dramas of Manual Knowledge in Péguy and BeinstingelChapter 3 A Solitary Emancipation: Ndiaye’s La Cheffe, roman d’une cuisinièreChapter 4 The Worker Philosopher: Gauny and Self-BelongingPART II: DISTURBANCE AND DRESSAGEChapter 5 Animal laborans: Missing Life in Paul Nizan’s Antoine BloyéChapter 6 A Degrading Division: Hands and Minds in Simone WeilChapter 7 Pierre Michon, ‘Small Lives’, and the Terrain of ArtPART III: AUDIBLE VOICESChapter 8 Tales of Distribution in A la recherche du temps perduChapter 9 Convocation, or On Ways of Being Together: François BonChapter 10 Circuits of Re-appropriation: Accessing the Real in the Work of Didier EribonConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisCritical intersectional scholarship enhances researchers’ and scholar-activists’ ability to open novel research frontiers. This forward-thinking Research Handbook demonstrates how to pursue fluid and innovative research approaches, identify differences from traditional methodologies, and overcome the common challenges faced when carrying out intersectional research. A transdisciplinary group of contributors offer their experience and expertise to provide an overview of key research topics, qualitative and quantitative approaches, and empirical examples of integrating intersectionality research with other critical practices. Examining the foundational texts that explain historical developments in systems of oppression and interdisciplinary research on marginalized communities, state-of the-art chapters explore the intersections emerging in studies of gender and sexuality, capitalism, white supremacy, nationalism, colonialism, climate emergencies, imperial decline, and public health. Reconsidering the ways in which scholar-activists carry out research, the Research Handbook demonstrates how an intersectional gaze and a continued commitment to social justice moves us closer to producing valuable research and, ultimately, transforming knowledge. Advancing innovative and multidisciplinary approaches, this incisive Research Handbook will be an invaluable tool for scholars and researchers hoping to undertake meaningful intersectional research. Its empirical findings will further benefit practitioners tasked with designing intersectional policy.Trade Review‘Mary Romero is once again pushing the boundaries of intersectionality, reaching backward as well as forward to reveal intersectionality’s deep history and future evolution. All this in a single volume with dozens of contributors demonstrating how to put intersectionality into practice in both research and activism on an astonishingly wide range of issues.’ -- – Leslie McCall, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, US‘Mary Romero’s Research Handbook on Intersectionality is timely and compelling! This multidisciplinary, historical, transnational, and global collection of excellent articles, with Romero’s incisive introduction, emphasizes the salience of intersectional methodologies. Significantly, it highlights the conceptual and contextual complexities in doing intersectional research. A must read for scholars, activists, and students interested in engaging in research, transforming knowledge, and in linking theory and meaningful praxis.’ -- Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University, US‘Mary Romero has added a vital resource to the copious literature on intersectionality by building on the highlights of path-breaking classic arguments while combining these in each article with the newest applications of the concept to a wide field of concerns. Both established voices and emerging scholars contribute to centering the issues of practical application to research and activism, and including rarely considered topics such as disability, human rights, and indigeneity. A timely reference for those new to the field but also a source of inspiration for even the most knowledgeable scholars.’ -- Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US‘This cutting-edge volume brings together a number of well-established experts to explore the doing or practice of intersectional work across a number of (trans)disciplinary spaces, and especially in regard to certain neglected areas of scholarship such as settler colonialism, indigenous studies, applied research, and transnationalism. In doing so, the volume extends intersectional scholarship in critical and necessary ways. This is an indispensable contribution to the field.’ -- Vrushali Patil, Florida International University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: intersectionality and transforming the production of knowledge 1 Mary Romero PART I FOUNDATIONAL RESEARCH 2 Ida B. Wells-Barnett, activist and journalist 15 Lori Amber Roesser 3 Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964): intersectionality and activism 33 Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge 4 Du Boisian sociology and intersectionality 51 Matthew W. Hughey 5 The Social Settlement Movement and activist scholarship 69 Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge PART II INTERSECTIONAL RESEARCH IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES SECTION IIA CRITICAL INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 6 Intersectionality as an ethical commitment 90 Sophie Withaeckx 7 Disability and rural poverty in the global South 108 Shaun Grech 8 Anti-colonial praxis in community-based research in feminist food studies 123 Barbara Parker SECTION IIB CRITICAL SEXUALITY STUDIES 9 Researching sexuality and state 143 Jyoti Puri 10 Space, place and urban future 158 Marcus Anthony Hunter and Terrell J.A. Winder 11 Making sexuality, gender, and migration intersectional 170 Salvador Vidal-Ortiz SECTION IIC CRITICAL INDIGENOUS STUDIES 12 Indigeneity, feminisms, and activism 186 Renya K. Ramirez 13 Intersectionality and ethnography 204 Robert Keith Collins 14 Thrivance: an indigenous queer intersectional methodology 223 Andrew J. Jolivétte SECTION IID CITIZENSHIP STUDIES 15 Intersectional insights into lived citizenship 239 Daniela Cherubini 16 Heterosexual marriage-related regimes 257 Laura Odasso 17 Intersectionality, citizenship and labor 274 Pallavi Banerjee and Carieta O. Thomas 18 Gender-based violence and citizenship in a migration context 292 Evangelia Tastsoglou and Lori Wilkinson PART III INTERSECTIONALITY AND APPLIED RESEARCH SECTION IIIA SOCIAL WORK, DIASTER RECOVERY AND HEALTH DISPARITIES 19 Intersectionality and immigrant and refugee trauma 313 Filomena M. Critelli and Asli Cennet Yalim 20 Power dynamics driving disasters’ impacts, response, and recovery 332 Lynn Weber and Anna Smith Pruitt 21 Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women’s health 351 Karen J. Leong, Kathy Nakagawa, and Aggie J. Yellow Horse SECTION IIIB SOCIAL JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY STUDIES 22 Scholar activist intersectional approaches 370 Akosua Adomako Ampofo 23 Multi-level analyses of homecare labor 385 Cynthia J. Cranford and Jennifer Jihye Chun 24 Environmental activism and immigrant women of color 404 Nadia Y. Kim 25 Children’s rights and social change 421 Brian Gran and Colette Ngana PART IV INTERSECTIONAL GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES: GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM 26 Centering region and multi-scalar lenses 443 Ghassan Moussawi 27 Intersectionality and migrant smuggling research 458 Gabriella Sanchez 28 Intersectionality beyond its traditions 476 Bandana Purkayastha and Miho Iwata 29 Centering intersectionality in transnational research 494 Anjana Narayan and Erica Morales Index

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Book SynopsisSkills and inequality have long been a central theme in analyses of social structure and economic development. A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality offers an insightful cross-disciplinary framework for research on how unequal living conditions form, persist and change in interplay with human skill formation and development.Drawing on prominent new advances in the field, this incisive Research Agenda builds a forward-thinking framework for research. Spanning an extensive eighteen chapters, each examining a specific but major aspect of the general theme of skills and inequality, the book provides a comprehensive overview of links between the two. Against the backdrop of established insights from related but separate fields of inquiry, including economics, sociology, demography, human resource management, political science, philosophy and psychology, the Research Agenda presents an exciting overview of recent advances in analyses of skills and inequality.Opening vistas for future research based on extensive literature reviews and new findings, this Research Agenda offers compact, ground-breaking essays for students, policy makers, and advanced researchers in many disciplines including social policy, business management, and employment relations.Trade Review‘While the concept of skill is central to explanations of inequality, disciplinary boundaries have hampered a full understanding of this relationship. This timely volume fills the gap by bringing together insights from experts in diverse disciplines that together provide the basis for an exciting research framework on this vital topic.’ -- Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US‘If you want to understand how differences in skills and power jointly create social inequality, this is the book for you. Leading international scholars present the new synthesis on how education, skills, jobs and earnings are linked.’ -- Daniel Oesch, University of Lausanne, Switzerland‘This book offers original, multidisciplinary insights on the conceptualisation of skill and robust empirical evidence on how skills are formed, developed, utilised, rewarded and maintained across countries with diverse institutional arrangements. It will enrich our understanding of skills and inequality for decades to come.’ -- Ying Zhou, Surrey Business School, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Skills and inequality – Introduction and overview 1 Michael Tåhlin 2 Skills, class and gender 19 Charlotta Magnusson and Michael Tåhlin 3 Culture, skills, job tasks and inequality 37 George Farkas 4 Skills and structural change 51 Johan Westerman and Edvin Syk 5 Skills and occupational sex segregation in Europe 65 Amanda Almstedt Valldor and Karin Halldén 6 Skills and adult educational choice: Gender (in) equality in a new form of Swedish vocational education 85 Margarita Chudnovskaya, Erik Nylander, and Rebecca Ye 7 Occupational skills and subjective social status 103 Anton B. Andersson and Arvid Lindh 8 Skill and job quality: Polarisation in a ‘liberal’ economy? 121 Duncan Gallie 9 Occupational skills, ethnic stratification, and labor market assimilation across immigrant generations 145 Are Skeie Hermansen, Jon Horgen Friberg, and Arnfinn H. Midtbøen 10 Can work protect against age-related decline of cognitive skills?: An empirical test of the use-it-or-lose-it hypothesis 161 Mark Levels and Rolf van der Velden 11 Reconceptualizing human capital 177 Paula England and Nancy Folbre 12 Parental education–occupation matching and offspring earnings 195 Dirk Witteveen 13 Skill and power at work: A Relational Inequality perspective 215 Dustin Avent-Holt and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey 14 The meaning of job-required education 231 Michael J. Handel 12 Skills and educational systems 255 Heike Solga and Herman G. van de Werfhorst 16 Skills and collective wage bargaining 271 Christian Kjellström and Irene Wennemo 17 Skills and macro-level economic inequality 287 Tomas Korpi, Michael Tåhlin and Johan Westerman 18 Skilled work and ethics: How can we expand opportunities for meaningful work? 303 Andrea Veltman Index 317

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Book SynopsisOrganisations across the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors require active Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) policies and programs, and are increasingly subject to meeting legislative standards around the DEI principles of equal opportunity, anti-discrimination, and human rights. Bringing together more than 20 insightful contributions from a diverse range of researchers, this dynamic Field Guide examines the theories, practices, and policies of diversity management. Reflective of its purpose to illustrate the breadth of DEI research, the Field Guide features a diversity of perspectives from early career and postgraduate researchers through to established scholars. Chapters cover a broad spectrum of personal demographics linked to DEI, exploring age, gender, disability, sexuality, and migrant status throughout both advanced and emerging economies, as well as analysing how the intersectionality of individual factors may reinforce advantage and disadvantage. Expansive and innovative, the book expertly integrates empirical case studies with cutting-edge research processes. The broad scope of research field approaches, methods, and tips featured in this Field Guide will be of significant interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of human resources management and development. Researchers from business, NGOs, and the public sector will also receive critical insights on diversity management in a range of national and micro-organisational contexts.Trade Review‘A Field Guide to Managing Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in Organisations is an exciting new resource for academic and industry researchers in the diversity, equity and inclusion space. It provides readers with an extremely broad and esoteric series of case studies and DEI issues, research reports, and suggestions for future research directions, including practical research tips, methodological guidance and implications for policymakers at global, local and industry levels.’ -- Alan Nankervis, Curtin University and Torrens University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface xx Principles underling diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and beyond xxiv PART I 1 An introduction to A Field Guide to Managing Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in Organisations 2 John Burgess, Subas P. Dhakal and Roslyn Cameron 2 Bibliometric analysis of diversity, equality and inclusion: a field note 18 Subas P. Dhakal PART II 3 Closing the gap on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment disadvantage in Australia 33 Sharlene Leroy-Dyer 4 Regional Australia Bank: a case study addressing the triple penalty of regional location, gender and motherhood on women’s careers 47 Lucie Newsome and Alison Sheridan 5 Researching skilled migrants in Australia 60 Syed Mohyuddin and Roslyn Cameron 6 Valuing older workers? A case study of Australian universities’ response to their ageing academic workforce 76 Jacqueline Larkin 7 Creating an individualised foundation for genuine community inclusion: evidence from Western Australian microboards 89 Elizabeth Farrant 8 LGB employees and their experiences of fly-in/fly-out employment in Western Australia 105 Mirsad Bahtic, Scott Fitzgerald and John Burgess 9 Improving workers’ well-being through international action: workers in the Bangladesh ready-made garment sector 119 Tasmiha Tarafder and John Burgess 10 Challenges of conducting equity research in the field: the example of Bhutan 132 Mahan Poorhosseinzadeh and Glenda Strachan 11 Diversity, equity and inclusive lessons from a workplace in the Canadian Arctic 147 Arijana Haramincic 12 Examining gender mainstreaming in Indonesia: a feminist policy analysis 163 Endah Prihatiningtyastuti, Kantha Dayaram and John Burgess 13 Affirmative action and equality, diversity, and inclusion in Malaysia 178 Sujana Adapa and Subba Reddy Yarram 14 Beyond demographic diversity: towards intersectional gender justice in professional design practice in New Zealand 192 Sarah Elsie Baker 15 What can organisations learn from kaupapa Māori research? 207 Peter Rawlins, Philippa Butler and Spencer Lilley 16 Organisational implications for DEI strategies against maternal mortality in Papua New Guinea’s Gulf province 222 Jennifer Litau, McKenzie Maviso, Ellie Korave, Posiy Tava Kae, Lucy Kalep, Hilda Tanimia, Anne Pulotu and Kenny Abau 17 Complexity and opportunity in diversity challenges in Singapore 240 Amy Lim and Peter Waring 18 Equality, diversity and inclusion in the South African workplace: the paradox of legislation 252 Shaun Ruggunan, Kathryn Pillay and Kantha Dayaram 19 Social enterprise performance measurement using a diversity and inclusion approach: implications for equitable and inclusive smallholder farmers’ improved wellbeing 266 Peter Musinguzi, Renato A. Villano and Derek Baker 20 Beyond expanding an acronym: strategies for supporting LGBTQ+ people in schools 279 Peggy Shannon-Baker and Nikki DiGregorio 21 Women’s careers in SME accounting firms in Australia, Malaysia and India 293 Alison Sheridan and Sujana Adapa PART III 22 Effectiveness of gender equality and diversity initiatives: a way forward 308 Erica French, Muhammad Ali, Marzena Baker and Lina Alsaree 23 Implications for fieldworkers in diversity, equality, and inclusion research 325 Subas P. Dhakal, John Burgess and Roslyn Cameron Index

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