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"China's economic growth has transformed the country from one of the poorest in the world to its second largest economy. Understanding the drivers of growth remains elusive as the country is affected by both its transition from central planning and the challenges of a developing…
Exposing the corporate structures behind exploitative migrant labour programs, this book investigates the use of guest workers in the United States, the largest recipient of migrant labour in the world.
Twenty five interviews with workers and intellectual allies of Solidarity.
This second edition of 'Pragmatic Sustainability' proposes a pragmatic, discursive and pluralistic approach to thinking about sustainability. Rather than suggesting a single solution to the problem of how to live sustainably, this collection discusses broader approaches to socia…
This textbook offers an introduction to international business that starts from Europe but ultimately encompasses the globe. The central question is - what determines the success and failure of firms around the globe? Institutional and resource-based perspectives are utilised to…
This textbook offers an introduction to international business that starts from Europe but ultimately encompasses the globe. The central question is - what determines the success and failure of firms around the globe? Institutional and resource-based perspectives are utilised to…
"Cancer-Gate details how the NCI and ACS are sitting on mountains of information on environmental and other avoidable causes of cancer, while failing to act on this and make it available to Congress and the public. This silence even extends to frank suppression of information." …
Award-winning author, Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., whose 1978 book ""The Politics of Cancer"" shook the political establishment by showing how the federal government had been corrupted by industrial polluters, has written a book that is sure to be of equal consequence. ""Cancer-Gate…
"Cancer-Gate details how the NCI and ACS are sitting on mountains of information on environmental and other avoidable causes of cancer, while failing to act on this and make it available to Congress and the public. This silence even extends to frank suppression of information." …
With so much talk about the creative industries, do we really know what they are, what they produce, and who works in them? This textbook takes the student through the history, trends, products and markets of the creative industries, showing how success depends on a mix of ideas…
A guide to studying and succeeding in the creative industries. This book takes you through the history, trends, products and markets of the creative industries, showing how success depends on a mix of ideas, tactics and talent.
""Creativity used to be the difficult concept to define - now it has probably been overtaken by the concept 'creative industries'. However, this text does a sterling job at identifying, outlining and defining the many elements that go to make up this booming sector of industry. …
A guide to studying and succeeding in the creative industries. This book takes you through the history, trends, products and markets of the creative industries, showing how success depends on a mix of ideas, tactics and talent.
This book uses eclectic, triangulated methods to explore the socio-economics of waste and of the commodity chains involved in recycling. Known as ‘unorganised’ in India, this part of the informal economy is anything but that. In developing theoretical ideas about poverty, agen…
This collection of essays discusses the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of social transformation and a fledgling United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War with Great Britain.
'Branded Lives' explores the increasingly popular concept of employee branding as a new form of employment relationship based on brand representation. In doing so it examines the ways in which the production and consumption of meaning at work are increasingly mediated by the bra…