Product Description: At a time when the future of the welfare state is the object of heated debate in many European countries, this edited collection explores the relationship between this institution and social rights. Structured around the themes of the politics of social rights, the relationship between social rights and questions of equality and social exclusion/inclusion, and the increasing impact of market imperatives on social rights, the book explore the effect of transformations in the welfare state upon social rights and their underlying rationalities and logics...read more

Product Description: An interest in rural life and culture has long been a feature of ethnology in Scotland and this installment of the significant ethnological series documents that necessary element of Scottish history. The multiauthor volume explores a variety of topics on the broad theme of farming and the land—including the environmental setting; settlement, society, and landscape; crops and livestock; buildings; the workforce; types of land use; tools, techniques, and processes; industry, engineering, communications, and trade; writing, museums, education, and research; and culture and community...read more

Product Description: Exploring a variety of topics on the broad theme of transport and communications in Scotland, this multiauthored volume covers a wide chronological and geographical range, including Gaelic barges of the medieval western seaboard and the aviation of the Northern Isles...read more