"Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication takes place, and in the ability …
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Two public health researchers prove that the recent economic crises around the world have had calamitous effects on people's health, citing increases in suicide rates, HIV transmissions, and heart disease during times of bad fiscal policy.
Explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. Argues that globalization can be a positiv…
"The book explores and explains how children have been excluded from our conceptualization of the world and our research about globalization. The contributors represent a variety of perspectives from different disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, politics, …
Provides a comprehensive assessment of national trends in inequalities in 30 European countries.
"Examines effects of the 2008-09 financial downturn on all workers with particular attention to low-income older workers who stand to suffer the most, often retiring early because of lack of work; discusses the real effects of the stock market decline, falling house prices, and …
"Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access to information about oneself. As laws, policies, and technological developments increasingly structure our relationships with social institutions, privacy faces new threats and new opportunities." "…
This text provides a comprehensive survey of the implications of population ageing, in countries across the world, relative to a range of specific interrelated issues - social security schemes, employer pensions, educational attainment, wage growth and distribution, retirement a…
Lazonick explores the origins of the new era of employment insecurity and income inequality, and considers what governments, businesses, and individuals can do about it. He also asks whether the United States can refashion its high-tech business model to generate stable and equi…
"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…
Study of economic development, politics and steady state economy in Africa - discusses the disappointments of independence, democracy and the economic recession; explains the failure of capitalism and the post- colonialism economic implications; looks at political systems and th…
Comparison of immigration trends and migration policy in France, Germany, Federal Republic, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK - examines the historical background and institutional framework; studies migrant education, legal status, working conditions, naturalizati…
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.
This report addresses a number of issues that have surfaced in the debates over the impact of technological change on employment. These issues include the effects of technological change on levels of employment and unemployment within the economy; on the displacement of workers …
Study of economic implications of military expenditure in developing countries - analyses national budget commitments and financing through taxation, the effects on saving and capital investment, and the relationship with human resources; examines trends in the international mar…
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…
