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Critical perspectives on ageing societies
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ISBN: 9781861348906 9781861348913 1861348916 1861348908 9781847422392 9786611741709 1447302001 1281741701 184742239X Year: 2007 Publisher: Bristol, UK : Policy,

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This important book brings together some of the best known international scholars working within a critical gerontology perspective. Together, they review and update our understanding of how the field has developed over the last twenty-five years and, through the lens of 'passionate scholarship', provide a challenging assessment of the complex practical and ethical issues facing older people, and those who conduct research on ageing, in the 21st century. The contributions extend the critical gerontological approach conceptually, methodologically and practically. They offer close and scholarly analysis of policies affecting the lives of older people and provide insights into why research is done in particular ways. Special attention is paid to feminist contributions and new approaches to working in partnership with older people; age discrimination and ageism; the impact of neo-liberal policies and the passage of various human rights instruments; the re-medicalisation of later life; the participation of older people in research; and justice between generations. The editors and contributors offer suggestions for promoting change, and an exciting set of visions and perspectives for the renewal and development of critical gerontology in the years ahead. Critical Perspectives on Ageing Societies will be a valuable resource for all students, academics and practitioners interested in ageing and the life course.


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Les modèles sociaux en Europe : quel avenir face à la crise ?
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ISBN: 9782802736073 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bruxelles : Bruylant,

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La mobilité internationale des capitaux, les origines de la crise de 2008 et leur impact sur les modèles sociaux européens - Crises économiques et Europe Sociale : quels rôles pour l'UE ? - Changer le paradigme de la gouvernance européenne - Les politiques d'austérité de l'Union Européenne : un programme d'extinction de la souveraineté populaire. Quels contre-feux ? - Lutte contre la pauvreté : la solidarité européenne à l'épreuve de la crise - Réformes du financement de la protection sociale en Europe : l'exemple de l'assurance maladie - L'enseignement supérieur et la crise en Europe : Quelques réflexions - La difficile réponse syndicale à la modération salariale : de Maastricht à la gouvernance économique européenne - Rester ou partir ? Migrations internationales et modèles sociaux européens à l'heure de la crise économique


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Hendrik de Man and social democracy : the idea of planning in Western Europe, 1914-1940
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ISBN: 9783030425333 9783030425340 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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'Thought-provoking and lucid, this engaging book is a timely new analysis of the influence of Hendrik de Man on the development of interwar social democracy in Europe.’ —Heather Jones, University College London, UK ‘A fluently written and deeply-researched assessment of one of the most influential socialist thinkers of the twentieth century. Milani writes authoritatively and with an extraordinary command of the sources. He tells the story not just of a major (albeit flawed) leader, but of the entire European socialist movement across a pivotal period.’ —David Stevenson, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK The book investigates the intellectual and political trajectory of the Belgian theorist Hendrik de Man (1885-1953) by examining the impact that his works and activism had on Western European social democracy between the two world wars. Based on multinational archival research, the book highlights how the idea of economic planning became part of a wider effort to address an ideological crisis within the socialist movement and revitalise the latter amidst the Great Depression. A heavily controversial figure also because of his subsequent involvement in Belgian wartime collaboration, de Man played a pivotal role in challenging traditional Marxist assumptions about the role of the state under capitalism and in promoting transnational exchanges between unorthodox social democrats across Europe. Starting from de Man’s experience in World War I, the book analyses his departure from Marxism, his elaboration of an alternative social democratic paradigm, his entry in Belgian politics as well as the reception of his thought in France and Britain.

Annals of the labouring poor : social change and agrarian England, 1660-1900
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ISBN: 0521245486 0521335582 0511599447 9780521245487 9780511599446 Year: 1985 Volume: 2 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This collection of inter-connected essays is concerned with the impact of social and economic change upon the rural labouring poor and artisans in England, and combines a sensitive understanding of their social priorities with innovative quantitative analysis. It is based on an impressive range of sources, and its particular significance arises from the pioneering use made of a largely neglected archival source - settlement records - to address questions of central importance in English social and economic history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Levels of employment, wage rates, poor relief, the sexual division of labour, the social consequences of enclosure, the decline of farm service and traditional apprenticeship, and th equality of family life are amongst the issues discussed in a profound re-assessment of a perennial problem: the standard of living (in its widest sense) of the labouring poor during the period of industrialisation. The author's conclusions challenge much of the prevailing orthodoxy, and his extensive use of literary and attitudinal material is closely integrated with the quantitative restatement of an interpretation that owes much to the older tradition of the Hammonds' Village Labourer.

Youth in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 1903153131 9781846152795 Year: 2004 Publisher: Woodbridge York Medieval Press


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Contemporary China : society and social change
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ISBN: 9781107011847 1107011841 9781107600799 1107600790 9781139196178 1107289521 1139196170 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ethnicity, labour, religion, education, class and rural/urban inequalities. It considers China's imperial past, the social and institutional legacies of the Maoist era, and the momentous forces shaping it in the present. It also emphasises diversity and multiplicity, encouraging readers to consider new perspectives and rethink Western stereotypes about China and its people. Real-life case studies illustrate the key features of social relations and change in China. Definitions of key terms, discussion questions and lists of further reading help consolidate learning. Including full-colour maps and photographs, this book offers remarkable insight into Chinese society and social change.


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Men and development : politicizing masculinities
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ISBN: 9781848139787 9781848139794 1848139780 1848139799 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Zed Books

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Mannen, mannelijkheid en ontwikkeling; de link tussen deze drie aspecten wordt in dit boek centraal gezet. Eén voor één dagen de auteurs het verwaarlozen van de structurele dimensies van patriarchale machtsrelaties in het huidige ontwikkelingsbeleid en de hiermee samengaande praktijk uit. Ze gaan uit van het algemene falen van dit beleid om de effecten van ongelijke sekse- en genderverhoudingen voor zowel mannen als vrouwen op een adequate manier aan te pakken. Via dit boek roepen de auteurs dan ook op om tot een hernieuwde strategie te komen, waarmee mannelijke stereotypen beter in vraag kunnen worden gesteld, maar ook om structurele barrières van genderongelijkheid te ontwarren en om vooral ook mannen te mobiliseren samen met vrouwen te werken aan grotere sociale en gendergelijkheid.


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Violence and the state in Languedoc, 1250-1400
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ISBN: 9781316635056 9781107039551 9781139600446 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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"Although it is often assumed that resurgent royal government eliminated so-called private warfare, the French judicial archives reveal nearly one hundred such wars waged in Languedoc and the Auvergne between the mid-thirteenth and the end of the fourteenth century. Royal administrators often intervened in these wars, but not always in order to suppress 'private violence' in favour of 'public justice.' They frequently recognised elites' own power and legitimate prerogatives, and elites were often fully complicit with royal intervention. Much of the engagement between royal officers and local elites came through informal processes of negotiation and settlement, rather than through the imposition of official justice. The expansion of royal authority was due as much to local cooperation as to conflict, a fact that ensured its survival during the fourteenth-century's crises. This book thus provides a new narrative of the rise of the French state and a fresh perspective on aristocratic violence"--


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London : a social and cultural history, 1550-1750
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ISBN: 9780521896528 9781139030106 0521896525 1316089207 1139507958 1139514024 1139514946 1139516590 1139518453 1139030108 1283817918 113951752X 9781139518451 9781139516594 9781139514941 9781283817912 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Between 1550 and 1750 London became the greatest city in Europe and one of the most vibrant economic and cultural centres in the world. This book is a history of London during this crucial period of its rise to world-wide prominence, during which it dominated the economic, political, social and cultural life of the British Isles, as never before nor since. London incorporates the best recent work in urban history, contemporary accounts from Londoners and tourists, and fictional works featuring the city in order to trace London's rise and explore its role as a harbinger of modernity, while examining how its citizens coped with those achievements. London covers the full range of life in London, from the splendid galleries of Whitehall to the damp and sooty alleyways of the East End. Readers will brave the dangers of plague and fire, witness the spectacles of the Lord Mayor's Pageant and the hangings at Tyburn, and take refreshment in the city's pleasure-gardens, coffee-houses and taverns.


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Evening's empire : a history of the night in early modern Europe
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ISBN: 9780521721066 9780521896436 0521721067 0521896436 9780511977695 1107386640 0511977697 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press,

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"What does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night. Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art, Craig Koslofsky opens up an entirely new perspective on early modern Europe. He shows how princes, courtiers, burghers and common people 'nocturnalized' political expression, the public sphere and the use of daily time. Fear of the night was now mingled with improved opportunities for labour and leisure: the modern night was beginning to assume its characteristic shape. Evening's Empire takes the evocative history of the night into early modern politics, culture and society, revealing its importance to key themes from witchcraft, piety, and gender to colonization, race, and the Enlightenment"--(Provided by publisher).

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