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This study offers a critique of the origins, the discourses, the general strategic line, the local variations, the policy turnover, tha failures, and the consequences of the workfare offensive in the USA. It also covers attempts to develop workfare states in Canada and Britain.
"This book examines the political economy of workfare, the umbrella term for welfare-to-work initiatives that have been steadily gaining ground since candidate Bill Clinton's 1992 promise to "end welfare as we know it." Peck traces the development, diffusion, and implementation …
The Doreen Massey reader
by Peck, Jamie, Lave, Rebecca, Christophers, Brett, Werner, Marion
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«Doreen Massey (1944-2016) changed geography. Her ideas on space, region, labour, identity, ethics and capital transformed the field itself, while also attracting a wide audience in sociology, planning, political economy, cultural studies, gender studies and beyond. The signific…
We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially 'ideas that work', are now able to find not only a worldwide audience but also transnational salience in rem…
We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially 'ideas that work', are now able to find not only a worldwide audience but also transnational salience in rem…
We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially 'ideas that work', are now able to find not only a worldwide audience but also transnational salience in rem…
"Offshore outsourcing - the movement of jobs to lower-wage countries - is one of the defining features of globalization. This work provides a sustained investigation of the workings of the global sourcing industry, its business practices, its market dynamics, its technologies, a…