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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “erik klijzing”
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  • Transitions to Adulthood in Europe

    Edited by Erik Klijzing, M. Corijn ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The diversification in family practices constitutes a major theme of research in the field of population studies. A substantial part of these diversification processes are linked to the stage of family formation. The increase in non-marital cohabitation and non-marital fertility and the postponement of marriage and parenthood have particularly characterised the transition from youth to adulthood ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Globalization, Uncertainty and Youth in Society

    The Losers in a Globalizing World

    Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Erik Klijzing, Melinda Mills, Karin Kurz ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Examining how youths in fourteen industrialized societies make the transition to adulthood in an era of globalization and rising uncertainty, this collection of essays investigates the impact that institutions working with social groups of youths have upon those youths' abilities to make adult decisions determining their life courses.Covering both Europe and North America, the book includes case ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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    Series Book 21 - Modern Library Chronicles
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  • Gender, Livelihoods and Migration in Africa

    by Justina Dugbazah ...
    This book presents an in-depth discussion within diverse contexts and a range of conceptual and methodological offerings, which interrogate not only issues concerning the migration discourse, but of gender theory and practice as well. It explores the gendered patterns of migration including how gender impacts on decisions to migrate in terms of who goes and why. Furthermore it examines how this ... Read more

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  • Access to Inequality

    Reconsidering Class, Knowledge, and Capital in Higher Education

    by Amy E. Stich ...
    Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction within American higher education. In other words, despite the well-intended, now mature process of democratization, the postsecondary system is still charged with high levels of inequality. In the interest ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

  • International Handbook of Adult Mortality

    Edited by Richard G. Rogers, Eileen M. Crimmins ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This handbook presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of unprecedented substantive, theoretical, methodological, and statistical developments and insights, and an in-depth examination of trends and patterns, in adult mortality around the world. With over two dozen chapters and more than 50 authors, this volume draws from top international mortality experts to provide one of the best ... Read more

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  • Labor Standards in International Supply Chains

    Aligning Rights and Incentives

    by Daniel Berliner, Anne Regan Greenleaf, Milli Lake, Margaret Levi, Jennifer Noveck ...
    The authors examine developments in labor standards in global supply chains over the past thirty years, analyzing factors that create challenges and opportunities for improving working conditions. They illustrate the complex dynamics within and among key groups, including brands, suppliers, governments, workers and consumers.Using extended examples from China, Honduras, Bangladesh and the United ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Labour in Contemporary India

    by Praveen Jha ...
    Generation of decent livelihood opportunities ought to be among the most important objectives on any meaningful agenda of economic development. On this front, however, the Indian experience has remained seriously inadequate. During the first four decades after Independence, India’s achievements with respect to the problems of poverty, unemployment and occupational structural transformation were ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Rural Aging in 21st Century America

    by J. V. Oh Edmund ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Population aging is one of the most important trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is occurring worldwide, especially in more developed countries such as the United States. Population aging is more rapid in rural than urban areas of the U.S. In 2010, 15 ... Read more

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  • Growing up Working Class

    Hidden Injuries and the Development of Angry White Men and Women

    by Thomas J. Gorman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This enlightening auto-ethnography examines how social class (and other social institutions and structures) affect how people grow up. Primarily, the book investigates how American children and young adults are impacted by the "hidden injuries" of class, and offers a rich description of how these injuries manifest and curdle later in life. Thomas J. Gorman provides sociological explanations for ... Read more

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  • World Population Policies

    Their Origin, Evolution, and Impact

    by John F. May ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the history behind the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of population policies in the more developed, the less developed, and the least developed countries from 1950 until today, as well as their future prospects. It links population policies with the theories of the demographic, epidemiological, and migratory transitions. It begins by summarizing the demographic ... Read more

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  • Handbook of the Economics of International Migration

    Edited by Barry Chiswick, Paul Miller ...
    Series Book Volume 1A+1B - Handbook of the Economics of International Migration
    The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s. This literature appears in the general economics journals, in various field journals in ... Read more

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