Julia Lynch 
Age in the Welfare State [PDF ebook] 
The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children

The mother-daughter relationship has preoccupied feminist writers for decades, but typically it has been the daughter”s story at centre-stage. Mothering the Self brings together these maternal and d …

Interpreting Official Statistics examines the official statistics produced about the current state of British society. It documents some of the ways in which information has been suppressed, manipula …

Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization has exacerbated and alleviated inequality over the past twenty-five years. This volume offers analytical and comparative insights from curre …

This book explores this inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, and identifies the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the r …

A ‘green economy’ must be built on ‘green jobs’ – the kind of employment that is low carbon, intended to reduce energy use and expected to restore environmental quality. But attempts to define exactl …

Since the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 there has been increasing international pressure on China to improve its approach to human rights, whilst at the same time the Chinese government has itsel …

The gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) varies greatly from country to country, and the number of Japanese women in these fields remains relatively few. This prompts …

This book explores the transition from the era of internationalization into the era of globalization of Japan by focusing on language and identity as its central themes. By taking an interdisciplinar …

This volume aims to provide a detailed explanation of the effects of cooperation and coordination on international multiparty mediation in conflicts. Contemporary scholarship stresses that the crucia …

This book critically and comprehensively examines China’s welfare development amidst its rapid economic growth and increasing social tensions. It covers the main policy areas from China’s inception o …