Product Description: In the international literature there is a broad scope for comparative research on the welfare regime, family change and gender relations, but we have no book that comprehensively collects the main research that has been conducted from the perspective of family well-being...read more

Product Description: Intense globalization, rapidly changing workplaces and family patterns have renewed the international interest in quality of life. This book examines different institutional arrangements, work-place conditions and gendered work and care that affect the conditions for achieving quality of work and life in European countries...read more

Product Description: This book examines the efficiency and effectiveness of economic policies in Europe, and explores the implications for social equity. It argues for an integrated approach to economic and social objectives, and discusses the ways in which welfare states and institutions can contribute to equity and efficiency objectives...read more

The best-selling author of The End of Work examines the decline of the American Dream as Americans are increasingly overworked, underpaid, and lacking time and describes its alternative as exemplified in the lifestyle of the New Europe, one that is more leisurely, healthy, prosperous, and sustainable. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: Cultural Writing. In this meticulous "expose" which manages to be humorous while yet compelling, the highly-priased novelist Alan Goldfein tackles The European Reality and The American Delusion - about itself and Europe. He lives there half the year, and focuses his clear writer's eye on bringing to light the ways in which America does suffer in a face-off with the "old world...read more

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