Contents:. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Lance A. Compa and Stephen F. Diamond. Part I: Labor Rights and Human Rights. 1. Labor Rights and Human Rights: A Historical Perspective: David. Montgomery. 2. The Paradox of Workers' Rights as Human Rights: Virginia A. Leary. 3. …
The vast majority of the world' s working women, particularly those from low-income households in developing countries, are located in the informal economy in activities that are casual, poorly paid, irregular and outside the remit of formal social security and protective legisl…
There is no denying the transformational role of the computer in the evolution of contemporary architectural practice. But does this techno-determinist account tell the whole story? Are humans becoming irrelevant to the overall development of the built environment? Building (in)…
The increasing economic and political importance of East Asia in the global political economy requires a deeper analysis of the nature of the capitalist systems in this region than has been provided by the existing literature on comparative capitalisms. This volume brings togeth…
This anthology presents new research related to welfare state, child care policies and small children's every day lives in early childhood education and care in institutions in Europe. By uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives as well as historical and co…
Subject: This book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe, while paying close attention to the OECD and the European Union as proliferators of new ideas. Three phases are identified: (a) a manpower revolution phase during the 1960s and 1970s,…
This book examines the place of multilateralism in Russia' s foreign policy. It examines Russia' s role and relationship with the G8, NATO, EU, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Collective Security Treaty Organization and Shanghai Cooperation Organizati…
Argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public responding to a moment when feminism's impetus to reconstitute the private sphere left a huge gap in its political thinking on the public.
