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  • Drugs, Race, and the Politics of Modern Slavery Law

    When Enemies Become Victims

    by Insa Lee Koch ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    As the Black Lives Matter movement highlights the legacies of transatlantic slavery and racial empire, the British state has launched a new moral crusade: the fight against 'modern slavery'. Enshrined in the Modern Slavery Act 2015, this agenda no longer treats modern slavery solely as a transnational crime but also as a domestic threat occurring within Britain's borders. Today, the most ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Personalizing the State

    An Anthropology of Law, Politics, and Welfare in Austerity Britain

    by Insa Lee Koch ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Liberal democracy appears in crisis. From the rise of 'law and order' and ever tougher forms of means-testing under 'austerity politics' to the outcome of Britain's referendum on leaving the EU, commentators have rushed to explain the current conjuncture. Starting with dominant theories that have seen these developments as indicative of a rise in 'penal populism' or 'popular authoritarianism', ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Affective Polarisation

    Social Inequality in the UK after Austerity, Brexit and COVID-19

    by Harvey Butterfield, Paolo Chiocchetti, Kirsten Forkert, Ifor ap Glyn, Ellen Grünkemeier, Marius Guderjan, Insa Koch, Lisa Mckenzie, Gerry Mooney, Carlo Morelli, Anisia Elisabeta Petcu, Rainer Schulze ...
    Inequality is an ever-present danger in our society. This important book addresses the crucial nexus between the lived experience of inequality and how it shapes political responses.With contributors from the UK and Continental Europe, the book compiles case studies with theoretically informed discussions of the relationship between affective polarisation, social inequality and the fall-out from ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Myth of Meritocracy

    Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series)

    by James Bloodworth ...
    The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor kids to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the less well-off. It hurts the middle classes too, who are increasingly locked out of the top professions by those from affluent backgrounds.Hitherto, Labour and ... Read more

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  • Policing

    Politics, Culture and Control

    Edited by Tim Newburn, Professor Jill Peay ...
    Bringing together a range of leading social scientists and criminologists, this volume explores a number of key themes raised by the work of Robert Reiner. Arguably the leading policing scholar of his generation, Reiner's work over some 40 years has ranged broadly in this field, taking in the study of police history, culture, organisation, elites and relationships with the media. Always carefully ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Children and Families

    Edited by Paul Michael Garrett ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    Recent years have witnessed a number of 'child protection' scandals where children, often from the poorest and most marginalised communities, have been on the receiving end of violence, abuse and social harm. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Paul Michael Garrett looks at the impact of marketisation of social work services in both Ireland and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Industrial Relations

    Mobilisation, Collectivism and Long Waves

    by John Kelly ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment Relations
    This original book is a wide-ranging, radical and highly innovative critique of the prevailing orthodoxies within industrial relations and human resource management. It covers:central problems in industrial relationsthe mobilization theory of collective actionthe growth of non-union workplaces and the prospects and desirability of a new labour-management social partnershipan historical account of ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Patriarchy at Work

    Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment, 1800-1984

    by Sylvia Walby ...
    The concept of 'patriarchy' is one which signals a sharp divide between traditions of feminist thought. Sylvia Walby attempts to conceptualize 'patriarchy' in a way that takes account not only of the complexity of relationships of gender, but also of the subtleties of the interconnections of patriarchy and capitalism.She rejects those accounts which treat patriarchy as a unified set of relations, ... Read more

    $41.25 CAD

  • Poverty, Inequality and Social Work

    The Impact of Neo-Liberalism and Austerity Politics on Welfare Provision

    by Ian Cummins ...
    This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wider welfare provision.It argues that social work should move away from the resultant emphasis on risk management and bureaucracy, and return to a focus on relational and community approaches as the cornerstone of practice.Applying theoretical frameworks ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Are Prisons Obsolete?

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

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  • The Welfare State

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Garland ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government. And even after decades of free-market criticism and reform, their core institutions have proven ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Invisible Chains

    Canada's Underground World Of Human Trafficking

    by Benjamin Perrin ...
    Just outside Toronto, a 14-year-old Canadian girl was auctioned on the internet for men to purchase by the hour. A young woman was taken by slave traders from an African war zone to Edmonton to earn greater profits by exploiting her in prostitution. A gang called Wolfpack recruited teenagers in Quebec and sold them for sex to high-profile men in the community.The global problem of human ... Read more

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