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  • Value

    The Representation of Labour in Capitalism

    by Diane Elson ...
    Series series Radical Thinkers
    This republication of a long out-of-print collection of essays, first published in 1979, focuses on the elusive concept of “value.” The field of study surrounding the theory of value remains comparatively sparse in Anglophone circles, and the essays here aim to answer the question, “Why is Marx’s theory of value important?” ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Feminism and Gender Research in Japan

    Edited by Diane Elson ...
    There is a large gap between Japan’s ranking on indicators of economic development and on indicators of gender equality. This book helps us to understand why.The chapters in this volume illuminate important dimensions of gender inequality in Japan – in relation to class, and in comparison to other countries. The book considers the relation of gender inequality to neoliberal policies, and the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Women, Gender and Development Reader

    by Valentine Moghadam, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sarah White, Diana L. Wolf, Deepa Shankaran, Lourdes Beneria, Aysan Sev'er, Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Beth Herzfeld, Aili Mari Tripp, Kalpana Wilson, Susie Jolly, Sylvia Chant, Diane Elson, Gita Sen, Betsy Hartmann, Peggy Antrobus, Elizabeth Barajas-Roman, Jennifer Fluri, Anesu Makina, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, Ruth Needleman, Alice Mungwa, Jean Pyle, Sonia Corra, Ayesha M. Imam, Amy Lind, Jennifer L. Fruri, Samanthi Gunawardana, Haejin Kim, Paula Voos, Gulay Toksoz, Lila Abu-Lughod, Annette Desmarais, Shirin M. Rai, Ruth Pearson ...
    The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice

    The radical potential of human rights

    by Radhika Balakrishnan, James Heintz, Diane Elson ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    The dominant approach to economic policy has so far failed to adequately address the pressing challenges the world faces today: extreme poverty, widespread joblessness and precarious employment, burgeoning inequality, and large-scale environmental threats. This message was brought home forcibly by the 2008 global economic crisis.Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice shows how human rights ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Economic Policy and Human Rights

    Holding Governments to Account

    by Sarah Gammage, Nursel Aydiner-Avsar, Lourdes Colinas, Alberto Serdan-Rosales, Gabriel Lara, James Heintz, Carlos Salas, Daniela Ramirez Camacho, Roberto Constantino, Kristina Parker ...
    Economic Policy and Human Rights presents a powerful critique of three decades of neoliberal economic policies, assessed from the perspective of human rights norms. In doing so, it brings together two areas of thought and action that have hitherto been separate: progressive economics concerned with promoting economic justice and human development; and human rights analysis and advocacy.Focussing ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach

    An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

    Edited by Diane Elson, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Polly Vizard ...
    Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches contrast sharply with the dominant development frameworks that emphasize economic ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective

    Edited by Brigitte Young, Isabella Bakker, Diane Elson ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to analyze the ‘strategic silence’ about gender in fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation. This silence reflects a set of assumptions that the key instruments of financial governance are gender ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Feminist Economics of Trade

    Edited by Irene van Staveren, Diane Elson, Caren Grown, Nilufer Cagatay ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender analysis to examine the relationship between international trade and gender relations.It brings together fourteen contributions from a variety of economic perspectives, including structuralist, institutionalist, neoclassical and Post-Keynesian by a range of ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Feminism in Public Debt

    A Human Rights Approach

    by Iolanda Fresnillo, Alicja Paulina Krubnik, Diane Perrons, Penelope Hawkins, Marina Zucker Marques, Christina Laskaridis, Francisco Cantamutto, Agostina Constantino, Patricia Miranda, Laura Pautassi, Camila Villar Duran, Maria Nieves Rico, Julieta Rossi, Corina Rodríguez Enriquez, Florencia Paternio, Ariel Wilkis, Verónica Serafini Geoghegan, Flavia Marco Navarro, Leia Achapong, Ulrike Marx, Dorothy Estrada Tanck, María Cristina Perceval, Magalí Brosio, Lena Lavinas, Diane Elson ...
    Series series Business, Finance and International Development
    EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.As many developing countries are facing increasingly higher levels of debt and economic instability, this interdisciplinary volume explores the intersection of sovereign debt and women's human rights.Through contributions from leading voices in academia, civil society, international organizations and national governments, it shows how ... Read more

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  • The Transformation of Welfare States?

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    This accessible work provides a ‘political sociology’ of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of welfare regimes and looks at the transformations they have undergone and the challenges they face.This book assesses current debates about the role of ‘globalization’ in welfare ... Read more

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  • Globalization And Development: A Latin American And Caribbean Perspective

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