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  • Globalization, Uncertainty and Youth in Society

    The Losers in a Globalizing World

    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Examining how youths in fourteen industrialized societies make the transition to adulthood in an era of globalization and rising uncertainty, this collection of essays investigates the impact that institutions working with social groups of youths have upon those youths' abilities to make adult decisions determining their life courses.Covering both Europe and North America, the book includes case ... Leer más

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  • Transitions to Adulthood in Europe

    Edición de Erik Klijzing, M. Corijn ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The diversification in family practices constitutes a major theme of research in the field of population studies. A substantial part of these diversification processes are linked to the stage of family formation. The increase in non-marital cohabitation and non-marital fertility and the postponement of marriage and parenthood have particularly characterised the transition from youth to adulthood ... Leer más

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  • Gender, Livelihoods and Migration in Africa

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  • Access to Inequality

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    de Amy E. Stich ...
    Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction within American higher education. In other words, despite the well-intended, now mature process of democratization, the postsecondary system is still charged with high levels of inequality. In the interest ... Leer más

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  • Labor Standards in International Supply Chains

    Aligning Rights and Incentives

    The authors examine developments in labor standards in global supply chains over the past thirty years, analyzing factors that create challenges and opportunities for improving working conditions. They illustrate the complex dynamics within and among key groups, including brands, suppliers, governments, workers and consumers.Using extended examples from China, Honduras, Bangladesh and the United ... Leer más

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  • International Handbook of Adult Mortality

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This handbook presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of unprecedented substantive, theoretical, methodological, and statistical developments and insights, and an in-depth examination of trends and patterns, in adult mortality around the world. With over two dozen chapters and more than 50 authors, this volume draws from top international mortality experts to provide one of the best ... Leer más

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  • Labour in Contemporary India

    de Praveen Jha ...
    Generation of decent livelihood opportunities ought to be among the most important objectives on any meaningful agenda of economic development. On this front, however, the Indian experience has remained seriously inadequate. During the first four decades after Independence, India’s achievements with respect to the problems of poverty, unemployment and occupational structural transformation were ... Leer más

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  • Growing up Working Class

    Hidden Injuries and the Development of Angry White Men and Women

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This enlightening auto-ethnography examines how social class (and other social institutions and structures) affect how people grow up. Primarily, the book investigates how American children and young adults are impacted by the "hidden injuries" of class, and offers a rich description of how these injuries manifest and curdle later in life. Thomas J. Gorman provides sociological explanations for ... Leer más

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  • Rural Aging in 21st Century America

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    This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Population aging is one of the most important trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is occurring worldwide, especially in more developed countries such as the United States. Population aging is more rapid in rural than urban areas of the U.S. In 2010, 15 ... Leer más

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  • Handbook of the Economics of International Migration

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    The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s. This literature appears in the general economics journals, in various field journals in ... Leer más

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  • World Population Policies

    Their Origin, Evolution, and Impact

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