The Home: Multidisciplinary Reflections - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786436566 ISBN 13: 9781786436566

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

In the first major work to take the home as a center of analysis for global social problems, experts from a variety of fields reveal the multidimensional reality of the home and its role in societies worldwide. This unique book serves as a basis for action by proposing global legislative, political and institutional initiatives with the home in mind.

The multidisciplinary and integrative approach taken by this book avoids simplistic accounts of the home, studies the value of the home, the service it offers, and its contribution to the wellbeing and prosperity of communities. Reviewing its internal functions and external relationships, the authors connect the themes of family, housing, income and wealth, community, relationships, family policies, socioeconomic setting, culture and history from across the world.

Academics studying issues such as family, housing, public and social policy, sociology, urban studies and poverty will benefit from the range of insights this book offers into what the home means worldwide. Policymakers, social organizations and specialized networks working in the areas of family, education, poverty and housing will greatly benefit from the insight and breadth of this research.

Contributors include: A. Argandoņa, M. Bertolaso, H. Burns, A. d'Entremont, M. do Ceu Patrão Neves, E.P. Davis, R. Lastra, A. Marcos, M. Regnerus, S. Zamagni

About this title

About the Author

Edited by Antonio Argandoņa, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Business Ethics, CaixaBank Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, ​​Spain

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786436566
• ISBN 13: 9781786436566
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Argandoņa Antonio