Amazon.com description: Product Description: This collection of essays written by academics from eight different European universities explores some of the key elements of change taking place within the social and political structures of Europe. The essays cover issues such as class structure; political alignment; gender relations; forms of production; industrial relations and national identities. It also discusses the nature of changes in schooling in Europe; the challenge to existing forms of income maintenance and the role of social policy in the transformation from planned to market economies. The themes addressed in the book reflect the experiences of people in a number of different countries in Europe, and the book provides the reader with a starting point to explore some of the debates and issues which surround the topics covered.