Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff …
"Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff…
"Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communications equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to i…
"Does globalization mean a race to the bottom in social standards and the inevitable decay of the welfare state? Ramesh Mishra - a leading authority on social policy - examines the implications of globalization in respect of social policy and social standards in advanced industr…
"At a time when social welfare is undergoing structural economic change, this text puts the important emerging field of social development into the hands of the student. Inspired by the conceptual insights of contemporary political economy, social development offers a macro view…
"Much current writing about agrarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations such as debt bondage are archaic forms, destined to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. Here it is argued that the incidence of bonded labour is much greater than gene…
"This exciting new book is the only one of its kind. International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples (Aspen Elective Series) will be the first published compilation of materials and commentary intended for use in courses focusing on the subject of indigenous peoples within the…
Three experts in Human Resources introduce a measurement system that convincingly showcases how HR impacts business performance. Drawing from the authors' ongoing study of nearly 3,000 firms, this book describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm's ove…
Studies how people have combined to influence and change cities, beginning with the transition from feudalism to an absolutist state through to the urban problems of the post-industrial society. Covers contemporary urban protest movements the relationship between culture and spa…
Examines traditional theories of monopoly capitalism and world systems analysis and puts forward the concept of global capitalism as a new stage in capitalist development during the past 20 years. Presents case studies which illustrate the impact of global capitalism on the stru…
Women's social status, womens rights, international division of labour, capitalist country, socialist country, developing country - womens organization, trends, historical, USA and Western Europe, cultural factors, political aspects, woman workers, capitalism, feudalism, sexual …
Management, radical interest groups, associations, press (publishing) and voluntary organizations, failure, UK - case study, financing, leadership, decision making. References.
This volume deals with the nature of wage determination and the problem of securing an economically appropriate development of money incomes in an open economy over the medium term.
USA. Monograph on the nature of management control over the working class through capitalist work organization - illustrates with historical case studies, the failure to establish workers self management, and social implications of automatic control, monopoly, personnel manageme…
Reviews the development and implementation of new information technologies in several clerical occupations and sectors, in order to identify its positive and negative consquences for women's employment. Considers the likely size, incidence, nature, and timing of these effects, a…
This book presents a comprehensive view of the economic approach to the analysis of technical change.
This book explains the design thinking approach both for designing new services and delivering the services. This approach itself can be applied to areas other than pure services, because it contains the innovative and intrinsic ingredients that can be applied to any human activ…
Reviews important developments related to the internationalization of financial issues and their implications for the economic growth and development of nations since 1970. The book contains 22 essays grouped under six headings: Part I: The Scope of the Volume; Part II: The Maas…
