International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 34 Issue 9/10

A representative workforce : The BME police recruitment target and the politics of enumeration and categorization

Karim Murji

The purpose of this paper is to examine the inter-relationship between target setting, racial categories and racism via the case of a race employment target set for the police…

Domiciliary care and migrant domestic workers: grasping the new institutional landscape

Manuel Abrantes

This paper addresses the nexus of domiciliary care demand and vulnerable migrant women recruited as domestic workers, focusing on the role of two types of organizations operating…

Gender, education and labour market: evidence from Mauritius

Deepa Gokulsing, Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the role of women in the small island economy by focussing on the education sector and labour market access. First, we analyse the…

The protestant ethic and the spirit of democracy: what is the democratic effect of Calvinism?

Milan Zafirovski

The paper considers whether and how Calvinism as a specific type of religion, ideology, and social system impacts political democracy in modern society. In contrast to the…

The perversity of business case approaches to CSR : Nuancing and extending the critique of Nijhof & Jeurissen

Lars Moratis

The purpose of this paper is to provide a reaction to the paper of Nijhof and Jeurissen in IJSSP on limitations of business case approaches to CSR by nuancing some of their…

It's better than stealing: informal street selling in Brussels

Dominique Boels

The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into the organisation of informal street selling in the capital of Belgium, its association with formal and illegal selling and the…

The (non)politicisation of age discrimination in Finland and Sweden

Mikael Nygård, Fredrik Snellman

The purpose of this paper is to examine the politicisation of age discrimination in relation to the enactment of anti-discrimination legislation in Finland and Sweden in the…

Standard of living, consumption norms, and perceived necessities

Riikka Aro, Terhi-Anna Wilska

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the material conditions of peoples’ daily lives by investigating changes in the self-perceived necessities of ten technology- and…