Economic Restructuring and Social Exclusion

by Brown, Phillip; Crompton, Rosemary

• ISBN13: 9781857281491
• ISBN10: 1857281497
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in social structure and political sociology as well as academic sociologists and libraries. It should have significant appeal to researchers and students in European studies and others interested in European integration.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Exclusion, post-Fordism and the "New Europe"	p. 14
Flexibilization and part-time work in Europe	p. 33
Gender and Pensions in Europe: current trends in women's Pension acquisition	p. 58
Combining work and family: working mothers in Scandinavia and the European Community	p. 86
Some issues of race, ethnicity and nationalism in the "New" Europe: rethinking sociological paradigms	p. 108
Race, citizenship and "Fortress Europe"	p. 136
The making of an underclass: neo-liberalism versus corporatism	p. 157
After the Cold War: the defence industry and the New Europe	p. 175
The collapse of Soviet socialism: legitimation, regulation, and the new class	p. 196
Privatization, class and interest formation in eastern Europe	p. 222
Index	p. 243
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