Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed
itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood's …

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the
globe. After a turbulent century of unprecedented social and technological change …

Departing from tendencies to bound precarity in particular time periods and world regions,
this article develops an expansive view of precarity over time and across space. Beyond …

What are the concepts and principles that underpin the design and delivery of social
policies? This thoroughly revised edition of a trusted text provides an authoritative …

This is a book about how 21st-century capitalism really works. Modern economics strips
away social, historical, and political context from analysis of'the economic', but the economy …

This article examines whether or not OECD welfare states have converged since 1980.
Making use of a variety of concepts of convergence, we analyse the development of a broad …

Seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ist Erwerbsarbeit gleichermaßen für Frauen wie
für Männer zur zentralen Quelle der Erfahrung geworden, in öffentlich anerkannter Weise …

Objective To compare inequalities in self-perceived health in the population older than 50
years, in 2004, using Wright's social class dimensions, in nine European countries grouped …

ABSTRACT We use the Institutional Characteristics of Trade Unions, Wage Setting, State
Intervention and Social Pacts database to examine the changes in collective bargaining …

Why yet another textbook in international political economy (IPE), you might ask? Since this
is a reasonable question, we should explain at the outset why we think this book is …