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  • Just One More Hand

    Life in the Casino Economy

    by Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart ...
    Just One More Hand tells a story that workers all over can relate to: an industry that promised a solid and stable livelihood is being transformed by competitive pressures, causing employees to lose their economic footing. What seemed like a good job one day becomes a bad job the next. Incorporating the real experiences of casino employees, the book demonstrates the difficulties for local ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Women and the Economy: A Reader

    A Reader

    by Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart ...
    This reader is designed for use as a primary or supplementary text for courses on women's role in the economy. Both interdisciplinary and heterodox in its approach, it showcases feminist economic analyses that utilize insights from institutionalism as well as neoclassical economics. Including both classic and newer selections from a broad range of areas, each section includes an introduction with ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Engendered Economics

    Incorporating Diversity into Political Economy

    by Ellen Mutari, Heather Boushey, William Fraher ...
    This book provides an overview of current developments within feminist political economy, including reformulations of economic theory, historical and empirical research on the economic roles and status of women and people of color, as well as proposals for broadening the public policy agenda. Rather than offering a feminist critique of neoclassical economics, this volume presents feminist ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Undeserving Rich

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  • The Cult of Efficiency

    by Janice Gross Stein ...
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    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Read more

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  • Development as Freedom

    by Amartya Sen ...
    By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom ... Read more

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  • A Theory of Fields

    by Neil Fligstein, Doug McAdam ...
    Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action. In a work of ... Read more

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  • Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy, Second Edition

    by James J. Rice, Michael J. Prince ...
    A consistent bestseller since its publication in 2000, Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy is a one-of-a-kind resource in the fields of political science and social work. Examining current conditions affecting the development of social policies in Canada, this book offers in-depth critical analysis of how these policies first arose and the implications they pose for future policy ... Read more

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  • Caring Democracy

    Markets, Equality, and Justice

    by Joan C. Tronto ...
    A rethinking of American democracy that puts caring responsibilities at the centerAmericans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see ... Read more

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  • About Canada: Childcare

    by Martha Friendly, Susan Prentice ...
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  • Comparative Law

    by Mathias Siems ...
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    Comparative Law offers a thorough grounding in the subject for students and scholars alike, covering essential academic discussions and comparative law methodology. It critically debates both traditional and modern approaches to the discipline and uses examples from a range of jurisdictions to give the reader a truly global perspective. Its contextualised and interdisciplinary approach draws on ... Read more

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