Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown--made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners--were rational respo…
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Monograph on forced labour, expropriation of indigenous landowners and the evolution of the African worker in colonial French-speaking Africa. Covers historical and sociological aspects of colonialism and capitalism in Central Africa, economic and social implications of the Cong…
Examines the history of industrial homework in the United States. Focuses on representative examples and major turning points in the emergence of homework as a social and political problem. Covers the period from the 1870s to the 1980s.
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…
Study of woman workers in export oriented industries on the northern frontier in Mexico - based on a field study (1978-1979) in Ciudad Juarez, discusses industrial worker demographic aspects, educational level, wage differentials, working conditions, obstacles to trade unionizat…
"We live in a revolutionary age of communicative abundance in which many media innovations--from satellite broadcasting to iPhones and electronic books--spawn great fascination mixed with excitement. In the field of politics, hopeful talk of digital democracy, cybercitizens and …
In clear, accessible language, the authors describe how people around the world have started challenging the New World Economy.
Rifkin argues that we are entering a new phase in history characterized by the steady and inevitable decline of jobs, as sophisticated computers, robotics, telecommunications, and other cutting-edge technologies replace human beings in virtually every sector and industry -- from…
Cet essai éclaire la manière dont Internet et le mode de consultation par liens hypertextes affectent la capacité à se concentrer dans la lecture, pourtant au coeur de l'apprentissage. Un retour historique montre que l'homme s'est constamment créé de nouvelles façons de penser e…
Social research into the process of social change taking place among the fang tribal peoples of the Gabon and the ba-kongo in the Congo and zaire - examines the historical and sociological aspects of the role of Europe in africa, the era of forced labour and the impact thereof o…
Conference report on migration and migrant worker movements in West Africa - comprises interdisciplinary research papers on such themes as the economic implications and social implications of migration, social integration of migrants, government policy approaches to migration, e…
"The Global Report 2001 is an assessment of the world's cities and a tool and reference for academics, researchers, planners and public authorities and civil society organizations around the world. The 2001 Report highlights the impacts of globalization in removing barriers and …
"The Age of Spiritual Machines is no mere list of predictions but a prophetic blueprint for the future. Kurzweil guides us through the inexorable advances that will result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain. According to Kurzw…
