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Throughout the OECD, 30 per cent of the average firm's total labour costs comprises items which are other than direct remuneration. This title focuses on these non-wage labour costs, which include; fringe-benefit payments, obligatory social-welfare contributions, holiday entitlements and expenditures on recruitment and training.

An analysis of the causal link between the rise in gold prices and the increase in wages and consumer buying power in the early years of the Twentieth Century.

An analysis of working time and employment, reaching to the core elements of a vital area of labour economics. It offers an analysis of the impact of workweek reductions on employment and hours as well as a coverage of part-time employment, temporary lay-offs, short-time working, labour subsidies, and social security funding.

Deals with the international nature of Bolshevism, both in terms of its ideologically internationalist doctrine of World Revolution and in terms of the attempts to spread Bolshevism in the period immediately preceding and following the First World War and the Russian revolution of October 1917.

An account of life in the Japanese countryside, as seen through the eyes of an anthropologist who did fieldwork there for four years. It depicts the intricate relationships among the valley people, but also those between them and the anthropologist who has come from the outside world to study them.

Deals with the applicability of the artistic classifications of romanticism and classicism to philosophical doctrine.

An essay that analyses the relationship between intellectuals' social locations and their political orientations. It provides a discussion of the various sociological views of intellectuals and specifies some of the social conditions which encourage intellectuals to follow various directions on the political compass.

Presents the history of Europe in the Middle Ages. This book begins with the Barbarian and Musulman invasions in the fifth century AD, which signalled the end of the Roman world in the West, and ends in the middle of the sixteenth century with the Renaissance and the Reformation.

First published in 1924, this work comprises the history of social thought from the fourth to the fourteenth century. It considers in detail the heretical social movement and the story is brought up to the period of the peasants' wars and the social struggles in the towns, which form the prelude to modern times.

For the better part of its history, sociology shared with commonsense its assumption of the 'nature-like' character of society - and consequently developed as the science of unfreedom. This work describes how the various trends in sociology emerging from phenomenology and existentialism do not challenge this preoccupation.

Explores the impact of the 'living utopia' of socialism on the development of modern society. This title begins with an analysis of the role of utopia in general, and of the socialist utopia in particular. It examines the reasons for the failure of socialism in its application to the peasant revolution in Russia.

Presents an introduction to sociology in a world context. This guide to the major themes, problems and controversies in contemporary sociology presents a systematic connection of sociology with the broad themes of modern social and political thought.

Includes the essays of political writing that are emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period.

Assesss the views of five major sociologists on Indian society. This study shows, all five sociologists touched on two special aspects of Indian society - Indian religion and the caste system.

Elucidates the author's views on a variety of topics across the social sciences. This work focuses upon free-thinking, economics and political ethics.

Studies the House of Lords and the various proposals for its reform, abolition or limitation of its powers which have been made in the light o f prevailing theories of the nature and characteristics of the English government.

Traces the history of girls' education from Anglo-Saxon England to modern times, telling the story through the leading personalities whose opinions and prejudices shaped this history. This title outlines the progress of popular education and the work of the pioneers who fought to bring girls' education at various levels into line with boys'.

Collects together the writings of Otto Jespersen. This book deals with such subjects as: English grammar, phonetics, history of English, language teaching, language in general, international language and miscellaneous papers.

Demonstrates the potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history. This book discusses such controversies as the Habermas-Gadamer debate and the deconstructionist challenge to synoptic analysis. It is of interest to students and teachers of modern European history, political and social theory.

How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for the ways in that we think about what a woman is, or where women might be going, whether individually or collectively? This book offers some possible answers and more questions, moving from Virginia Woolf to advertising and from Freud to Feminist theory.

Deals with the nature of classification in the social sciences. This book states that classifications are dependent upon and are derived from theoretical explanations.

A discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict. It traces the formation of a class society back to the patterns of 'surveillance power' and control, and shows how these patterns preceded and made possible the industrial system.

Contends that the failure of Keynesian economics has been due to its timidity. This title states that far from contracting, the government must expand its powers and activities, in order to achieve and maintain economic prosperity.

Presents a persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. This book defends the two great principles underpinning democratic socialism - freedom and equality. It aims both to restore the idea of freedom to its proper place in the political vocabulary of the left and to defend a stark version of freedom as absence of constraint.

Explores the different notions of respect, equality and dependency in Kant's moral writings. This work illuminates central tensions and contradictions not only within Kant's moral philosophy, but within the thinking and feeling about human dignity and social inequality which we take very much for granted within a liberal moral culture.

Argues that, in order to understand "Marx's Capital" fully, it is necessary to have read and understood Hegel's Logic. This title emphasizes the nature of the break between "Marx's Capital" and various forms of political economy, and stresses the revolutionary nature of Marx's critique of political economy as one of the foundations of "Capital".