Are gender relations changed by de-industrialization? The essays here propose a wide scope for the study of industrial devolution.

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This volume aims to understand why some economies succeed and some fail, and why some communities prosper while others stagnate, so economics must be seen as embedded in politics and society. It is a study of this embeddedness.

This essential text will interest those in the fields of political science, industrial relations, management studies, as well as comparative sociologists and historians.

The book concludes with a speculative look forward, pondering whether the current elite class can bring about a reformation of the democratic process and whether new organizing principles, adapted to a digital world, can arise out of the ...

This book will be of great interest for all students and scholars of politics, sociology and the welfare state in particular.