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Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism asks whether societies caught in political or social transition provide new opportunities for women, or instead, create new burdens and obstacles for them. Using cont …

This work brings together for the first time the ideas, philosophies and interpretations of North America”s leading African American economists, demonstrating that racial inequality has had an immen …

In 1996, powerful anti-immigrant forces in Newt Gingrich”s 104th Congress worked hard to pass the most restrictive immigration law in decades. The new law has changed virtually every aspect of immig …

Pressure to achieve work-life ‘balance’ has recently become a significant part of the cultural fabric of working life in United States. A very few privileged employees tout their ability to find bala …

The growing body of work on imprisonment, desistance and rehabilitation has mainly focused on policies and treatment programmes and how they are delivered. Experiencing Imprisonment reflects recent d …

With dual-working households now the norm, Food, Families and Work is the first comprehensive study to explore how families negotiate everyday food practices in the context of paid employment. As the …

This volume presents a new perspective for discussing the European social contract and its main challenges, bringing together single-nation and comparative studies from across Europe. Presenting both …

With specific attention to irregular migrant workers – that is to say, those without legal permits to stay in the countries in which they work – this volume focuses on domestic work, presenting studi …

Approaches to urban regeneration have changed dramatically throughout Europe and the USA over recent decades, drawing on notions of public-private partnership, growth coalitions and local spatial all …