Bøker av Jan Windebank

The New Labour government has made an institutional turn, from doing things to people, to enabling them to do things for themselves. This self-help approach is most clear in areas such as health, pensions and education. This text explores how it can be applied to deprived urban neighbourhoods.

This book challenges many of the popular myths surrounding informal economic activities, offering a radical reconceptualisation of their extent, growth, location and nature as well as evaluating the contrasting policy options.

Women's Work in Britain and France is a ground-breaking retheorization of what constitutes 'progress' in gender relations. It replaces the conventional focus upon encouraging women's increased insertion into employment as the principal strategy for achieving progress in gender relations with a new focus on changing men's work patterns.