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1. Industrial Relations in Education

   Transforming the School Workforce

   By Bob Carter, Howard Stevenson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   All phases of education from pre-school to post-compulsory, in virtually all parts of the world, have experienced unprecedented reform and restructuring in recent years. Restructuring has largely been driven by a global agenda that has promoted the development of human capital as the key to...

   Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge
2. Making Realism Work

   Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research

   Edited by Bob Carter, Caroline New

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   In this innovative book, theorists and researchers from various social science disciplines explore the potential of realist social theory for empirical research. The examples are drawn from a wide range of fields health and medicine, crime, housing, sociolinguistics, development theory and deal...

   Published September 1st 2004 by Routledge
3. Realism and Racism

   Concepts of Race in Sociological Research

   By Bob Carter

   There are continuing difficulties within social science surrounding concepts of race. This book suggests that these difficulties stem from the uncertain ontological and epistemological status of ideas about race, itself a consequence of the recognition that concepts of race have all but lost their...

   Published October 25th 2000 by Routledge