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Trying Work(Paperback)
Gender, Youth and Work Experience
Edinburgh University Press
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25/04/1991
Based on observations made in a Manpower Services Commission training workshop, this work analyzes the experiences of teenagers in their first working environments, looking at their training and emp...
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Knowledge and Nation(Hardback)
Edinburgh University Press
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17/05/1990
Describes the links between knowledge (science and technology) and nation (culture) and examines the tension that exists between reason and expertise, and experience and custom. The study also explo...
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Affluent Workers Revisited(Paperback)
Privatism and the Working Class
Edinburgh University Press
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07/07/1992
An analysis of the social and political perspectives of the British working class during the decade of Thatcherism. The author concludes that the 1980s working class shares both a communal identity ...
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Computing in Scottish Education(Paperback)
The First Decade and Beyond
Edinburgh University Press
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20/12/1989
Ten years ago there were almost no computers in Scottish schools. Now there are over 10,000. This book gives an independent reflection on what the massive expansion has meant, with a team of practit...
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Highland Games(Paperback)
The Making of the Myth
Edinburgh University Press
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18/04/1991
An attempt to put the Scottish Highland Games into a sociological, historical and cultural context. Often dismissed as just an eccentric summer spectacle, the Games are shown to have played an impor...
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The Sociology of Social Security(Paperback)
Edinburgh University Press
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15/08/1991
This sociological study of social security focuses on four main themes - the changing objective of social security programmes, their interaction with the labour market and their effect on incentives...
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The Sociology of Social Security(Hardback)
Edinburgh University Press
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15/08/1991
This sociological study of social security focuses on four main themes - the changing objective of social security programmes, their interaction with the labour market and their effect on incentives...
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Growing Up in a Classless Society?(Hardback)
School to Work Transitions
Edinburgh University Press
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25/06/1992
Based on a nationwide survey, this book looks at the changes over the last decade in the organization of education and the youth labour market. It examines the impact of the changes on the attitudes...
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