"Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first impact of layoffs in metropolitan cities, suburban areas, and single-industry towns to the shock...

Das Besondere ist Trumpf, das Einzigartige wird prämiert, eher reizlos ist das Allgemeine und Standardisierte. Der Durchschnittsmensch mit seinem Durchschnittsleben steht unter Konformitätsverdacht. Das neue Maß der Dinge sind die authentischen Subjekte mit originellen Interessen und...

Prólogo .-- Introducción .-- Capítulo I. Las mujeres en la sociedad de la información y del conocimiento: oportunidades y desafíos .-- Capítulo II. ¿Dónde están las mujeres? Trabajo, empleo y acceso y uso de las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones .-- Capítulo III. Las...

Die Wissensgesellschaft als Gesellschaftsform, in der wissensbasierte Produktion eine herausgehobene Rolle spielt, ist kein neues Phänomen, sondern hat ihre Wurzeln im 19. Jahrhundert. Auch Beschäftigte in der industriebasierten Wirtschaft verrichteten Wissensarbeit. Die zunehmende...

We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...

Examining the occupational variation within non-standard employment, this book combines case studies and comparative writing to illustrate how and why alternative occupational employment patterns are formed. Non-standard employment has grown significantly in most developed economies, varying...

The notion that people with higher income are more concerned about environmental problems is deeply entrenched in economics and some other disciplines. Studies have shown a positive income effect on the intention to pay for environmental improvement. Perception of environmental risk, however,...

Inglehart applies a four item ranking scale to measure post-materialism which is used for cross-cultural and cross-temporal comparative purposes. The aim of this research is to test measurement invariance of the scale to establish to what extent the scale produces comparable results in time and...

Tolerance constitutes one of the core elements of a democratic political culture and an indicator of social cohesion. While the concepts of social tolerance and political tolerance have each generated a substantial body of literature, few studies have examined the two forms of tolerance...