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“hiroko sato”

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  • Fields Watered with Blood

    Critical Essays on Margaret Walker

    by Maryemma Graham, Tomeiko R. Ashford Carter, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael, Michelle Cliff, Esim Erdim, Minrose C. Gwin, Robert Harris, Amy Levin, Joyce Pettis, Hiroko Sato0, Melissa Walker Heidari1, Jerry W. Ward Jr.2, Bernice Lloyd Bell3, B. Dilla Buckner4, Eugenia Collier5, Ekaterini Georgoudaki6, Charlotte Goodman7, Florence Howe8, Phyllis R. Klotman9, James E. Spears0, Claudia Tate1, Eleanor Traylor2, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley3, R. Baxter Miller4 ...
    Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood—now available in paperback—constituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People and the novel Jubilee, the contributors reveal the complex interplay of concerns and themes in Walker’s ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Japanese Labour and Management in Transition

    Diversity, Flexibility and Participation

    Edited by Mari Sako, Hiroko Sato ...
    Japanese Management and Labour in Transition explores the changing face of Japanese industrial relations. Part one of the work outlines recent trends in Japanese labour markets, labour law and corporate strategy, and explores the responses of both management and labour to pressure posed by these trends. Part two analyses the interaction between the state, management and labour, considering both ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Power

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    In this informative critique of contemporary leadership renowned political scientist Donald Savoie poses and answers the crucial questions: where is power located and who is in charge? In recent years it has become extremely difficult to pinpoint the location of political and economic power making it complicated to determine who is to blame for political and economic catastrophes and leading to ... Read more

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  • Progressive Capitalism

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    by David Sainsbury ...
    The neo-liberalism that dominated economic thinking since the advent of Thatcher and Reagan is now seen to have serious flaws. Progressive Capitalism seeks to replace it with a new Progressive political economy, based on an analysis of why the growth rates of countries differ, and what firms have to do to achieve competitive advantage in today's global economy. The cornerstone of the political ... Read more

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  • Public Management Reform

    A Comparative Analysis - Into The Age of Austerity

    by Christopher Pollitt, Geert Bouckaert ...
    Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform. Even in Australasia extensive measures of fiscal restraint have been implemented. In this fourth edition the basic structure of the book has been retained but there has been a line-by-line rewriting, ... Read more

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  • TTIP

    The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

    by Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge ...
    The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected by its critics, who regard TTIP as a direct assault on workers' rights, health and safety standards and public services.In this incisive analysis, ... Read more

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  • Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development

    Is Business the Solution?

    by Michael Hopkins ...
    The business of business is business. So why should corporations be involved in development? This groundbreaking new book makes the case that governments and their international agencies, grouped under the umbrella of the United Nations, have failed in their attempts to rid the planet of underdevelopment and poverty. If development is the objective then it seems that the solution and the ... Read more

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  • The Business of Human Rights

    An Evolving Agenda for Corporate Responsibility

    by Klaus Dieter Wolf, Doctor Fiona Harris, Doctor Keren Bright, Professor John Hatchard, Mark J. Smith, Doctor Piya Pangsapa, Olufemi Amao, Gary Slapper, Lois Muraguri ...
    In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss. Work conditions in sweatshops, widespread destruction of the environment, and pharmaceutical trials in third world countries are only the tip of the iceberg.This timely collection of essays addresses the interface between the calls for ... Read more

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  • Contested Governance in Japan

    Sites and Issues

    Edited by Glenn D. Hook ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. It includes ... Read more

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  • The Japanese Economy

    by Prof. Hiroaki Richard Watanabe ...
    Series series World Economies
    Although still the world’s third largest economy, Japan continues to feel the effects of the collapse of a massive asset price bubble in the early 1990s. In recent years further setbacks, including both the Asian and global financial crises, and the 2011 Fukushima earthquake, have only added to the economy’s difficulties and made its prospects under Abenomics at best mixed.Hiroaki Richard Watanabe ... Read more

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  • Labour, Globalization and the State

    Workers, Women and Migrants Confront Neoliberalism

    Edited by Debdas Banerjee, Michael Goldfield ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book explores the impact of neoliberal globalization on labour markets and the state in the developed and developing world. It focuses especially on the United States and the economies of Asia – in particular, India. Liberalized trade and investment are thought by neoliberals to be the best levers for raising labour standards, provided labour market flexibility and capital market ... Read more

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