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"Brown & Sharpe employees produced and marketed measuring devices, machine tools and precision machinery, and helped shape Rhode Island, the nation and the modern world. The history of Brown & Sharpe contains the story of the Industrial Revolution in America, covering more than 150 years of technological development, labor history and public policy, culminating in history's longest strike"--

Machinery industry --- Labor --- Technological innovations --- Industrial revolution --- History. --- Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company (Providence, R.I.) --- United States --- Social policy.

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This book examines, both theoretically and empirically, the impact of globalization and individualization on social solidarity

Globalization --Social aspects. --- Globalization --- Group identity. --- Social aspects. --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Solidarité --- Altruisme --- État providence

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The civil society sector-made up of millions of nonprofit organizations, associations, charitable institutions, and the volunteers and resources they mobilize-has long been the invisible subcontinent on the landscape of contemporary society. For the past twenty years, however, scholars under the umbrella of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project have worked with statisticians to assemble the first comprehensive, empirical picture of the size, structure, financing, and role of this increasingly important part of modern life. What accounts for the enormous cross-national variations in the size and contours of the civil society sector around the world? Drawing on the project's data, Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, Megan A. Haddock, and their colleagues raise serious questions about the ability of the field's currently dominant preference and sentiment theories to account for these variations in civil society development. Instead, using statistical and comparative historical materials, the authors posit a novel social origins theory that roots the variations in civil society strength and composition in the relative power of different social groupings and institutions during the transition to modernity. Drawing on the work of Barrington Moore, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and others, Explaining Civil Society Development provides insight into the nonprofit sector's ability to thrive and perform its distinctive roles. Combining solid data and analytical clarity, this pioneering volume offers a critically needed lens for viewing the evolution of civil society and the nonprofit sector throughout the world.

Nonprofit organizations. --- Nonprofit organizations --- Civil society. --- Welfare state. --- State, Welfare --- Economic policy --- Public welfare --- Social policy --- State, The --- Welfare economics --- Corporations, Nonprofit --- Non-profit organizations --- Non-profit sector --- Non-profits --- Nonprofit sector --- Nonprofits --- Not-for-profit organizations --- NPOs --- Organizations, Nonprofit --- Tax-exempt organizations --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Social contract --- Social aspects. --- 316 <0...> --- Sociologie --- Associations sans but lucratif --- Société civile --- État providence --- Civil society --- Welfare state --- Aspect social --- Social aspects --- E-books --- Associations sans but lucratif. --- Société civile. --- État providence. --- Aspect social. --- Société civile. --- État providence.

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"A longstanding question at the intersection of science, philosophy, and theology is how God might act, or not, when governing the universe. Many believe that determinism would prevent God from acting at all, since to do so would require violating the laws of nature. However, when a robust view of these laws is coupled with the kind of determinism now used in dynamics, a new model of divine action emerges. This book presents a new approach to divine action beyond the current focus on quantum mechanics and esoteric gaps in the causal order. It bases this approach on two general points. First, that there are laws of nature is not merely a metaphor. Second, laws and physical determinism are now understood in mathematically precise ways that have important implications for metaphysics. The explication of these two claims shows not only that nonviolationist divine action is possible, but there is considerably more freedom available for God to act than current models allow. By bringing a philosophical perspective to an issue often dominated by theologians and scientists, this text redresses an imbalance in the discussion around divine action. It will, therefore, be of keen interest to scholars of Philosophy and Religion, the Philosophy of Science, and Theology"--

History of Western philosophy --- Philosophy of religion --- Theology --- Providence and government of God --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- Religion and science. --- Christianity. --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Philosophy --- Religious aspects --- Action --- Determinism --- Divine --- Jeffrey --- Koperski --- Laws --- Nature

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The first edition of The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism focused on the impact of federalism on social policy during a period of economic growth and expanding social expenditures. The revised edition extends the analysis by asking how the federal syatem has shaped the social policy response to neo-conservatism, recession, and restraint. It analyses policy trends in detail; examines the implications of constitutional changes, including the Charter; and highlights the continuing role of federalism.

Income maintenance programs --- Social security --- Federal government --- Welfare state --- Sécurité du revenu --- Sécurité sociale --- Fédéralisme --- Etat providence --- Canada --- Social policy --- Politique sociale --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- American Government / General --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- #BIBC:ruil --- Sécurité du revenu --- Sécurité sociale --- Fédéralisme