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Social divisions
- Editors:
- PAYNE Geoff, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 408p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 2nd
The book presents a view of social fragmentation, inequality and cohesion. The articles by explore the key divisions in contemporary society. The book includes major chapters on class, gender and ethnicity and also dedicated coverage of national identity, age, childhood, sexuality, disability, health, and community. Each chapter covers theories and current patterns, offering an up-to-date critical guide to its field.
Adolescence, risk and resilience: against the odds
- Editors:
- COLEMAN John, HAGELL Ann, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- John Wiley and Sons
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 205p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book considers a range of disadvantages that may impact on adolescents and suggests ways to overcome them. It is about demonstrating a positive approach to young people and their circumstances and shows how the concepts of risk and resilience are related. Contributors examine: the nature of risk and resilience in adolescence; the role of the family; growing up in substitute care; sex and risk; mental health and mental disorders; young disabled people; anti-social behaviour; social exclusion, risk and young adulthood.
Beyond the workfare state: labour markets, equality and human rights
- Editors:
- CARPENTER Mick, FREDA Belinda, SPEEDEN Stuart, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 192p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Beyond the Workfare State explores equality, discrimination and human rights in relation to employability and 'welfare-to-work' policies. It draws extensively on new research from the SEQUAL Project, undertaken for the European Social Fund, which investigated seven dimensions of discrimination in a labour market that is theoretically 'open to all'. The book provides an overall analysis of policy shifts and presents a wide and distinctive range of illustrative studies that give voice to a variety of potentially marginalised groups. Chapters deal with obstacles to labour-market access around each of the following themes: gender and class; disability; race and ethnicity; geographical exclusion; sexual orientation; the problems of old and young people; and refugees.