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  • The Missing Class

    Portraits of the Near Poor in America

    de Katherine Newman, Victor Tan Chen ...
    Fifty-seven million Americans-including 21 percent of the nation's children-live a notch above the poverty line, and yet the challenges they face are largely ignored. While government programs assist the poor, and politicians woo the more fortunate, the "Missing Class" is largely invisible and left to fend for itself.Missing Class parents often work at a breakneck pace to preserve the progress ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Cut Loose

    Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy

    de Victor Tan Chen ...
    Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. Cut Loose provides a vivid and moving account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group: autoworkers. Their well-paid jobs on the assembly lines built a strong middle class in the decades after ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Organizational Imaginaries

    Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy

    Edición de Katherine K. Chen, Victor Tan Chen ...
    Series Libro 72 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
    Our everyday lives are structured by the rhythms, values, and practices of various organizations, including schools, workplaces, and government agencies. These experiences shape common-sense understandings of how 'best' to organize and connect with others. Today, for-profit managerial firms dominate society, even though their practices often curtail information-sharing and experimentation, ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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  • A New Synthesis of Public Administration

    Serving in the 21st Century

    de Jocelyne Bourgon ...
    Series Libro 81 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being reshaped by the rise of social networking and modern information and communication technologies. ... Leer más

    $41.39 USD

  • How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

    de Yuen Yuen Ang ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences."― Zelizer Best Book in Economic ... Leer más

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  • Governing through Goals

    Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation

    Edición de Norichika Kanie, Frank Biermann ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier Millennium Development Goals, but they also signaled a larger ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Community

    A Contemporary Analysis of Policies, Programs, and Practices

    de Katharine Kelly, Tullio Caputo ...
    Community is an elusive yet frequently invoked concept. Terms like community health, community living, community schools, community policing, community development, and community renewal have become part of the contemporary lexicon.What has led organizations, and particularly Western governments, to take such an interest in community, and why this interest now? What has caused the increasing ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Collaborating for Our Future

    Multistakeholder Partnerships for Solving Complex Problems

    de Barbara Gray, Jill Purdy ...
    Organizations turn to multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) to meet challenges that they cannot handle alone. By tapping the resources of diverse stakeholders, MSPs develop the capability to address complex issues and problems, such as health care delivery, poverty, human rights, watershed management, education, sustainability, and innovation. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Changing Contours of Work

    Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy

    de Stephen A. Sweet, Peter F. Meiksins ...
    Series series Sociology for a New Century Series
    The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.Changing Contours of Work is an exploration of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Presented with engaging vignettes and rich data, this Fourth ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • How Universities Work

    de John V. Lombardi ...
    Series series Higher Ed Leadership Essentials
    The single best description of the inside workings of contemporary universities.Witty and insightful, How Universities Work is destined to be an essential handbook for anyone wanting to understand universities in the United States. John V. Lombardi gives readers an insider’s view of the academy, describing the structure, logic, dynamics, and operational styles of both public and private ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility

    Strategy, Communication, Governance

    Edición de Andreas Rasche, Mette Morsing, Jeremy Moon ...
    This upper-level textbook offers an original and up-to-date introduction to issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR) from a global perspective. Written by an international team of experts, it guides students through key themes in CSR including strategy, communication, regulation and governance. Balancing critiques of CSR with a discussion of the opportunities it creates, it includes ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy

    Edición de Tobias Jung, Susan D. Phillips, Jenny Harrow ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    Philanthropy – the use of private resources for public purposes – is undergoing a transformation, both in practice and as an emerging field of study.Expectations of what philanthropy can achieve have risen significantly in recent years, reflecting a substantial, but uneven, increase in global wealth and the rolling back of state services in anticipation that philanthropy will fill the void. In ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD