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Social question in the twenty-first century: a global view
Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the “giant evils” while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies …
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- 9780520302402
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- xii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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- 306.3 BRE s
Working in China : ethnographies of labor and workplace transformation
After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour beyond the image of workers toiling under appalling sweatshop conditions for extremely low wages. Working in…
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- 9780203966983
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- xiii, 251p. : ill
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- 331.10951 WOR w
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