Changing Life Patterns in Western Industrial Societies

This wide-ranging volume brings together the commissioned papers that are the basis of James O'Toole and Edward E. Lawler's The New American Workplace, their fo

Women's employment is an area of considerable interest both from the point of view of equal opportunities and of economic competitiveness. This book brings togt

Birth rates are falling and fertility rates are well below replacement levels. At the same time, the economic crisis has forced governments to scale back public

Despite the well-established consensus on the need for an interdisciplinary research paradigm to understand the unfolding of human lives within their social con