Work and labour markets
Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations
Challenging or Maintaining the Status Quo?
This collection examines the nexus between the emancipation of women, and their role(s) in civil service organisations. It covers the role of social media in organising, the significance of religion in many cultural contexts, activism in Eastern Europe and the impact of environmental degradation on women’s lives.
Precarious Lives
Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Engaging with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, this ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK.
Lifelong Learning Policies for Young Adults in Europe
Navigating between Knowledge and Economy
This comprehensive collection discusses topical issues that are essential to both scholarship and policy making in the realm of lifelong learning policies and how far they succeed in supporting young people across their life courses, rather than one-sidedly fostering human capital for the economy.
Designing Prostitution Policy
Intention and Reality in Regulating the Sex Trade
The book offers a detailed analysis of the design and implementation of prostitution policy at the local level.