State of insecurity: government of the precarious 9781781685969, 9781781685952, 9781781685976, 9781781687147, 1781685959, 1781685967

"After years of the welfare state, the rise of technology, combined with neoliberal governmental apparatuses, has e

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English Pages 1 vol. (XXII-136 p.) ; 20 cm Year 2015

State of insecurity: government of the precarious
9781781685969, 9781781685952, 9781781685976, 9781781687147, 1781685959, 1781685967

A sociologist explains how over the past two decades neoliberal societies have sought to control the poor through a comb

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Understanding "precarious employment" and its links to labour market institutions, industrial and occupational

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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question remains ’Do good fences still make good neighbours’? Since

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The ‘Bedroom Tax’ has been one of the most contentious aspects of the UK government’s austerity politics. In this book,

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In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained Briti

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The chilling effects of anti-communist policies in post-war Canada. Whitaker and Marcuse reconstruct the secret and sile

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The Insecurity of Freedom is a collection of essays on Human Existence by one of the foremost Jewish thinkers of our tim

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In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 197

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