Tackling issues relevant to family life today, this authoritative Companion shows why studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life, across the globe.

• Contains original essays by expert contributors on a wide range of topics relating to the sociology of families.
• Includes coverage of social inequality, parenting practices, children's work, the changing patterns of citizenship, and multi-cultural families.
• Gives special attention to European and North American examples.
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Ken Livingstone was elected Mayor of London on a platform that included a congestion charge for central London, a policy that became reality on 17 February 2003. Richards uses his experience as Director of a bliog 2.5 million Government congestion charging study, as one of those who created the scheme Livingstone adopted and as advisor to the London Assembly, to provide a critical record of the introduction of the London Congestion Charge, and of its implications for congestion charging elsewhere."

Martin Richards is a Co-Active Coach, dedicated to bringing a coaching approach to educators working in Education Systems around the world. Martin works to ensure that a coaching approach is properly and increasingly used in schools and colleges. He trains administrators, teachers and students in the fundamentals of coaching. Martin is an experienced educator and facilitator, with more than twenty years of designing and running successful training and development programs for individuals and organisations.