"In Silicon Valley the phrase "disruptive technology" is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can accelerating techn…
This book is concerned with the economic consequences of the dramatic current and prospective demographic changes that are occurring in Western industrialized countries. There are chapters on the dependency burden aspects of Social Security programs and intergenerational redistr…
John Grieve Smith traces the origins of postwar full employment policies in the experience of the interwar years and the work of Keynes and Beveridge. He reviews the successful achievement of full employment after the war and its subsequent abandonment as the Keynesian consensus…
Comprises nine essays on the impact of age, ethnic origin, social class, cultural and other experiential factors on the role of women as social agents in the late 19th and 20th century.
"This collection of original essays examines the social and political consequences of the globalization of the apparel industry in Asia, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the United States. The contributors analyze the countries' trade policies, the apparel industry's …
Examination of how the utopian promises of technological society have proven false and how Indian societies are still resisting the promise.
Bleakonomics is a short and darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world : environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability.
Bleakonomics is a short and darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing todays world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability. Written for anyone who is wondering how weve come tothis point, Rob Larson holds mains…
"Bleakonomics is a short and darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability. Written for anyone who is wondering how we've come to this point, Rob Larson holds m…
A humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity, and financial instability. It looks at scientists' conclusions about climate change, the business world's opinions about its own power, and reve…
Bleakonomics is a short and darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability.
Bleakonomics is a short and darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing todays world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability. Written for anyone who is wondering how weve come tothis point, Rob Larson holds mains…
Throughout the "New South," relationships based on race, class, social status, gender, and citizenship are being upended by the recent influx of Latina/o residents. Doing Good examines these issues as they play out in the microcosm of a community health center in North Carolina …
Throughout the "New South," relationships based on race, class, social status, gender, and citizenship are being upended by the recent influx of Latina/o residents. Doing Good examines these issues as they play out in the microcosm of a community health center in North Carolina …
