Routledge Revivals
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Drawing from over 100 years of innovative, cutting-edge publishing, Routledge Revivals is an exciting programme whereby key titles from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many acclaimed imprints associated with Routledge will be re-issued.
The programme draws upon the illustrious backlists of Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Methuen, Allen & Unwin and Routledge itself.
Routledge Revivals spans the whole of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and includes works by some of the world’s greatest thinkers including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers and Max Beloff.
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Social Evolution and Sociological Categories (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Paul Q. Hirst
March 14, 2011
First published in 1976, this book is concerned with the nature of classification in the social sciences. Its thesis is that classifications are dependent upon and are derived from theoretical explanations. Classification is not a theoretically neutral typification or ordering of social forms. This...
Social Struggles in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Max Beer
March 14, 2011
First published in 1924, Max Beer's work comprises the history of social thought from the fourth to the fourteenth century. He 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 ...
The Economics of Non-Wage Labour Costs (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Bob Hart
March 14, 2011
Throughout the OECD, 30% of the average firm’s total labour costs comprises items which are other than direct remuneration. This reissue, first published in 1984, focuses upon these non-wage labour costs, which include; fringe-benefit payments, obligatory social-welfare contributions, holiday ...
Western Sociologists on Indian Society (Routledge Revivals): Marx, Spencer, Weber, Durkheim, Pareto
1st Edition
By G. R. Madan
March 14, 2011
Of the five major sociologists whose views on Indian society are assessed in this work, originally published in 1979, Marx and Weber made a special study of the subject and had something definite to say about the future of Indian society. Herbert Spencer was primarily concerned with the effects of ...
Working Time and Employment (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Bob Hart
March 14, 2011
First published in 1987, this Routledge Revival reissues the first systematic and integrated analysis of working time and employment, reaching to the core elements of a vital area of labour economics. It offers both a comprehensive analysis of the impact of workweek reductions on employment and ...
Capital and Power (Routledge Revivals): Political Economy and Social Transformation
1st Edition
By John Girling
January 18, 2011
First published in 1987, this book comprises a critical evaluation of Marxist, Gramscian and pluralist theories of social development; the application of these theories, chiefly to Third World countries: hence consideration of the problems of ‘specificity’, general theory and social change. This is...
Christian Democracy in France (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By R. E. M. Irving
January 18, 2011
Christian Democracy, which may briefly be defined as organised political action by Catholic democrats, has been a major political force in Western Europe since the Second World War, not least in France. The aim of this book, first published in 1973, is to trace the Development of Christian ...
Critics of Society (Routledge Revivals): Radical Thoughts in North America
1st Edition
By Tom B. Bottomore
January 18, 2011
First published in 1967, this essay in the interpretation of radical social thought deals mainly with the radical theorists rather than the doctrines of social and political movements, but makes an exception in an important discussion of the new radicalism of the 1960s. The author's main concern is...
Free-Thought in the Social Sciences (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By J. A. Hobson
January 18, 2011
This Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a seminal work by British economist, sociologist and academic John A. Hobson, elucidating his views on a variety of topics across the social sciences. He makes particular reference to the struggle between the disinterested urge of the social...
Freedom and Equality (Routledge Revivals): The Moral Basis of Democratic Socialism
1st Edition
By Keith Dixon
January 18, 2011
Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. In contrast to many recent books justifying conservatism and varieties of Marxism, Keith Dixon defends the two great principles ...
Paths to International Political Economy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Strange
January 18, 2011
The problems of a troubled world economy and the essentially political issues of how it should be managed make up the stuff of international political economy. The overwhelming importance of these questions has drawn ever increasing numbers of students and teachers in universities, colleges and ...
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Routledge Revivals): A Biography
1st Edition
By George Woodcock
January 18, 2011
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) is one of the most important French social theoreticians of the nineteenth century. George Woodcock's book, first published in 1956, was the first full-scale biography of Proudhon in the English language. Proudhon's influence on the French Socialist ...