The text examines the activities of often highly controversial investment funds, namely private equity, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds, in US, UK Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Poland, and Japan, exploring the importance of these funds and considering t…
The text examines the activities of often highly controversial investment funds, namely private equity, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds, in US, UK Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Poland, and Japan, exploring the importance of these funds and considering t…
The text examines the activities of often highly controversial investment funds, namely private equity, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds, in US, UK Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Poland, and Japan, exploring the importance of these funds and considering t…
The text examines the activities of often highly controversial investment funds, namely private equity, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds, in US, UK Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Poland, and Japan, exploring the importance of these funds and considering t…
Coltan mines in the Congo; electronics factories in China; devastated neighbourhoods in Detroit. Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution; an unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation. Nick Dyer-Witheford reveals how technology facilitat…
This book offers a new perspective on the relationship between trade unions and the state in the period 1910-21. Using a range of primary sources it explores the constraints placed by industrial conflict on both state and trade union action. It aims to contribute to and clarify …
Examines the role of trade unions and trade union leaders played in the British State's management of industrial conflict during the years 1910-1921.
The book offers a concise account of modern Japanese economic history and the essence of postwar macroeconomic issues and policy. The nature of the Japanese corporation, labour relations and technological innovations are discussed, with three chapters devoted to Japan's internat…
This path-breaking history of the African working class in Lourenco Marques proceeds from the assumption that Mozambican labor history was not fundamentally about skills, wages, or productivity - it was about racism, human dignity, and contested masculinity. While white official…
This path-breaking history of the African working class in Lourenco Marques proceeds from the assumption that Mozambican labor history was not fundamentally about skills, wages, or productivity - it was about racism, human dignity, and contested masculinity. While white official…
What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences? Orlando Figes teaches history at Birkbeck, University of London and is the author of many acclaimed books on Russian history, including A People's Tragedy, which The Times Literar…
"Do you appreciate your forty-hour, five-day workweek? Appreciate having a safe working environment? Unions made this all possible in one way or another. Unions bring value to all sectors of a society. As the champion of people power versus corporate power, unions help to spread…