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The Waste of the World

Consumption, Economies and the Making of the Global Waste Problem

By: Nicky Gregson

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The Waste of the World

Consumption, Economies and the Making of the Global Waste Problem

By: Nicky Gregson

Despite frequent claims that waste is being reduced, consumer-reliant economies, everyday consumption and the waste industry continue to produce and demand more waste. Combining a lucid style with robust empirical and theoretical research, this book examines the root causes of the global waste problem, rather than simply the symptoms. It challenges existing waste policies, highlighting what needs to change if we are to get serious in tackling this global problem. It concludes with policy implications for shifting waste from an ‘end-of-pipe’ concern to being at the heart of the debate over decarbonization.

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Policy Press

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1529232465

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9781529232462

Servicing the Middle Classes

Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain

By: Nicky Gregson,Michelle Lowe

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Servicing the Middle Classes

Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain

By: Nicky Gregson,Michelle Lowe

Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families for waged domestic labour and the consequent growth of a new `servant' class. Examining the position of nannies and cleaners, the authors explore the national socio-economic trends which have led to this new phenomenon and the profound changes this reflects in our concepts of motherhood and class and gender relations.

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476

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Routledge

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1134885814

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9781134885817

As an Equal?

Au Pairing in the 21st Century

By: Rosie Cox,Nicky Busch

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As an Equal?

Au Pairing in the 21st Century

By: Rosie Cox,Nicky Busch

Au pairs are relied upon by tens of thousands of UK families to do everything from childcare and housework to elder care, pet feeding and waiting at dinner parties. Traditionally thought of as privileged and well-educated young women having fun on a 'gap year' abroad, au pairs have been excluded from many of the recent discussions on migrant domestic labour. However, since 2008 au pairing has been effectively unregulated in the UK and the result is that au pairs now constitute one of the poorest paid and least protected groups of workers. Through an examination of lived experiences, As an Equal? draws on detailed research to examine au pairs and the families who host them in contemporary Britain, revealing au pairing to have become increasingly indistinguishable from other forms of domestic labour. Crucially, hosting an au pair is shown to form part of families' attempts to provide good (enough) childcare in the context of extended working hours and poor public childcare provision. This increased reliance of families on an exploited workforce is shown to form part of the wider political climate of economic austerity, and raises profound questions about the position of women within the neoliberal economy.

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209

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1783604999

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9781783604999

Money, Speculation and Finance in Contemporary British Fiction

By: Nicky Marsh

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Money, Speculation and Finance in Contemporary British Fiction

By: Nicky Marsh

Fiction has become increasingly concerned with the political and imaginative significance of finance, speculation and the money markets - from Ian Fleming's Goldfinger to Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up and Martin Amis' Money. This book argues that recent British fiction demystifies the 'weightless' economy of contemporary money and critiques the popular sense of money as being everywhere but nowhere. The monograph provides a comprehensive survey of a large body of fictional texts that have striven to represent and understand the formative significance of finance capital on contemporary culture. In these novels, the implications of finance capitalism for political identity, for class politics, for the sovereignty of the nation state and a new global order are all explored, dramatised and critiqued. Authors covered include Margaret Drabble, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Coe, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis and Malcolm Bradbury.

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1441153845

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The Waste of the World

Consumption, Economies and the Making of the Global Waste Problem

By: Nicky Gregson

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Consumption, Economies and the Making of the Global Waste Problem

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1529232457

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Unbecoming Things

Mutable Objects and the Politics of Waste

By: Mike Crang,Nicky Gregson

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Unbecoming Things

Mutable Objects and the Politics of Waste

By: Mike Crang,Nicky Gregson

This book responds to moves to rematerialise the social sciences, to attend to the stuff of daily life but challenges the social sciences to think beyond objects as stable things. It forwards the argument that objects need to be seen not as stabilising things, or immutable mobiles – as time stilled and materials fixed and conserved in the object form – or even always in the making, as becoming but as unbecoming things. It argues that objects are better seen as things coming apart, as en route to becoming something else, some stuff else, somewhere else. It locates these arguments in economies of demolition, disposal and reincarnation, focusing on object death, materials recovery and re-fabrication, and the sequestration and unleashing of materials classified as wastes. It uses as its exemplar case the classic immutable mobile, the ship – one of the most durable and complex of fabricated objects. It illustrates these arguments through global ethnography conducted in various settings around the world, including South Asia and the EU.

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0415506980

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9780415506984

Servicing the Middle Classes

Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain

By: Nicky Gregson,Michelle Lowe

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Servicing the Middle Classes

Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain

By: Nicky Gregson,Michelle Lowe

Investigates the rise of a new `servant' class in response to demands by the middle class, and the socio-economic trends which have led to this and profound change this reflects in our concepts of motherhood, class and gender relations.

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1134885822

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9781134885824

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