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  • Labour Market Participation in India

    A Region- and Gender-Specific Study

    by Arup Mitra, Aya Okada ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book focuses on the gender-specific labour force participation rates across regions in India and identifies its most important determinants. Before concentrating on the Indian context, it examines the participation rates of various countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Not unexpectedly, the study shows that the rate is significantly lower for females than for males in this region. The rural ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • What Does It Mean to Be White?

    Developing White Racial Literacy – Revised Edition

    by Robin DiAngelo ...
    Series Book 497 - Counterpoints
    What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin DiAngelo reveals the factors that make this question so difficult: mis-education about what racism is; ideologies such as individualism ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    by John Siko ...
    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Reimagineering the Nation

    Essays on Twenty-First-Century Sweden

    Edited by Aleksandra Ålund, Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Anders Neergaard ...
    Series Book 4 - Political and Social Change
    This collection of essays offers a critical analysis of neoliberal transformation as it has unfolded in Sweden, long regarded as exemplary in terms of social welfare, equality and an inclusive multicultural democracy. The book presents a multidisciplinary exposition on Sweden, seen in a wider European perspective. It addresses changing frameworks of citizenship, welfare and democracy, migration ... Read more

    $84.79 USD

  • Domestic Food Production and Food Security in the Caribbean

    Building Capacity and Strengthening Local Food Production Systems

    by C. Beckford, D. Campbell ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    With the exception of Haiti, the sensationalized issues of hunger reported in certain parts of the developing world are largely unknown in the Caribbean. Despite this, there are growing concerns about the state of food security in the region, as declining domestic production and increased dependence on imported food create vulnerability. This study examines some of the contemporary issues ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Who Needs Jobs?

    Spreading Poverty or Increasing Welfare

    by P. Lemieux ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He delves into how income and prosperity are created (businesses producing what consumers demand), proposes solutions to the unemployment problem, and provides readers with the knowledge to navigate the jobs discussions of politicians and economists in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Precarious Enterprise on the Margins

    Work, Poverty, and Homelessness in the City

    by Jessica Gerrard ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the contemporary conditions of marginal work within the context of persistent unemployment, poverty, and homelessness in wealthy nations. Drawing from research concerning three cities—Melbourne, San Francisco, and London—Jessica Gerrard offers a rich account of one of the most precarious informal forms of work: selling homeless street press (The Big Issue and Street Sheet). ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Broadcasting the End of Apartheid

    Live Television and the Birth of the New South Africa

    by Martha Evans ...
    South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun to boycott the country because of apartheid. While the ruling National Party feared the integrative effects of television, they did not foresee how exclusion from globally unifying broadcasts would gradually erode their power. South Africa was barred from participating in some of ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Work, Institutions and Sustainable Livelihood

    Issues and Challenges of Transformation

    Edited by Rajdeep Singha, Debdulal Saha, Virginius Xaxa ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The book explores the debates surrounding sustainable livelihood in the neoliberal era effected through transformation of the nature of work and the role of institutions, particularly in the Global South. By creating gainful work and employment opportunities through formal and informal institutions using progressive instruments and innovations within rural and urban economies, livelihood becomes ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Rural Labour Mobility in Times of Structural Transformation

    Dynamics and Perspectives from Asian Economies

    Edited by Kailash Sarap, D. Narasimha Reddy ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines essential issues and perspectives on rural labour, helping readers understand the changes that are currently taking place in the labour markets, especially with regard to migrants from rural to urban areas, their socio-economic conditions, factors contributing to such mobility and associated problems. Further, it addresses the question of why the socio-economic conditions of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Crisis, Austerity, and Everyday Life

    Living in a Time of Diminishing Expectations

    by Gargi Bhattacharyya ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Will austerity never end? This timely and insightful book argues that austerity seeks to set the terms of political and economic life for the foreseeable future, extending techniques of exclusion to ever-greater sections of the population. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Reverse Migration in Contemporary China

    Returnees, Entrepreneurship and the Chinese Economy

    by Huiyao Wang, Yue Bao ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The authors investigate the phenomenon of highly skilled Chinese returnees and their impact on the development of the Chinese economy and society, and on the transformation of China into a key player on the global stage. They analyse the reasons why Chinese entrepreneurs choose to return to their native country and how their overseas experience shapes their attitude and behaviours. This study is ... Read more

    $49.49 USD