Helena Flam & Jocelyn Pixley 
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Beveridge defined full employment as a state where there are slightly more vacant jobs than there are available workers, or not more than 3% of the total workforce. This book discusses how this goal …

Biosocial criminology is an interdisciplinary field that aims to explain crime and antisocial behavior by exploring both biological factors and environmental factors. Since the mapping of the human g …

The Anthropology of Love and Anger questions the very foundations of western sociological thought. In their examination of indigenous peoples from across the South American continent, the contributor …

As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women”s lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women”s changing roles on their children and f …

Debt is often thought of as a mere economic variable governed by a simplistic mechanical logic, ignoring its other facets. Whose debt, and debt of what exactly? This volume analyzes debt as a politic …

Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of the patterns of employment and education of women in this field. …

The Nordic countries share a special cultural and political experience. This book presents an interdisciplinary perspective, covering the following areas: women”s political strategies from different …

In this book academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines provide a survey of research into buildings, epidemiology and medical issues, followed by an assessment of the tools availabl …

In 1990, Paula Caplan, a nationally recognized expert on the psychology of women, wrote the groundbreaking Don”tBlame Mother. Now, almost ten years later, she finds that we are still blaming mothers …

The problems that alcohol brings to society centre around the victims of accidents, poisonings and violence; the ”drinking casualties” of the title. This is also seen as an important area for the i …