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The contributors to this text on industrial relations research methods, represent four countries and a range of fields, including economics, sociology, psychology, law, history and industrial relations. They identify distinct strategies and suggest approaches for future appropriation.

The din and deadlock of public life in America - where insults are traded, slogans proclaimed, and self-serving deals are made and unmade - reveal the deep disagreement that pervades our democracy. The disagreement is not only political but also moral, as citizens and their representatives increasingly take extreme and intransigent positions. A better kind of public discussion is needed, and Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson provide an eloquent argument...

This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United States. Margo J. Anderson's scholarly text effectively bridges the fields of history and public policy, demonstrating how the census both reflects the country's extraordinary demographic character and constitutes an influential tool for policy making. Her book is essential reading for all those...

Analyzes the factors influencing the development of welfare legislation in the United States, culminating in the Social Security Act under the F.D. Roosevelt Administration.

In this book a leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our cultural discourses, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress women and sexual minorities. Sandra Lipsitz Bem argues that these assumptions, which she calls the lenses of gender, shape not only perceptions of social reality but also the more material things - like unequal pay and inadequate daycare - that constitute...

This is a collection of articles which looks at all forms of work from a historical, comparative and theoretical perspective.

An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.