Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe (Blossfeld H.)(Pevná vazba)

Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe (Blossfeld H.)(Pevná vazba)

Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India (Breman Jan)(Pevná vazba)

Jan Breman analyses labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. Focusing on what has happened since Independence, he argues that colonial rule changed the country's agrarian economy. Capitalism has led to progressive inequality, lack of welfare and the exclusion of the

Social Movements in a Globalized World (Flesher Fominaya Cristina)(Pevná vazba)

As the world experiences social unrest, polarization, and faces complex challenges, citizens are taking to the squares and streets to demand change. From climate change protests to far-right extremism, social movements are mobilizing around the key social and political issues of our times. In this

Normalized Financial Wrongdoing: How Re-Regulating Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality (Prechel Harland)(Pevná vazba)

'Regional Universities' and Pedagogy: Graduate Employability in Rural Labour Markets (Paviotti Gigliola)(Pevná vazba)

Chapter 1. Graduate employability.- Chapter 2. Policies and practices in European regional development.- Chapter 3. Rural territories and graduate employment.- Chapter 4. Higher Education and Employability.- Chapter 5. The employers.- Chapter 6. Students and graduates.- Chapter 7. Pedagogies for

Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World (LeJeune Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

Chapter 1. Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World: An Introduction.- Part I: Making Cosmopolitan Places in a Globalized World.- Chapter 2. Generic Places: The Construction of Home and the Lived Experience of Cosmopolitanization.- Chapter 3. Making Cosmopolitan Spaces: Urban

Islam in Liberal Europe: Freedom, Equality, and Intolerance (Hafez Kai)(Pevná vazba)

Islam in 'Liberal' Europe provides the first comprehensive overview of the political and social status of Islam and of Muslim migrants in Europe. In addition to offering a critical assessment of positive and negative trends in Islamic-Western relations, Kai Hafez also engages in a theoretical

After Brexit: Consequences for the European Union (Da Costa Cabral Nazar)(Pevná vazba)

​Confronts the economic and social fragility of the European Union in a globalized world Questions the future of the European integration project Address the major areas of the EU that can be affected by

Inequality in U.S. Social Policy: An Historical Analysis (Warde Bryan)(Paperback)

In Inequality in US Social Policy: An Historic Analysis, Bryan Warde illuminates the pervasive and powerful role that social inequality based on race and ethnicity, gender, immigration status, sexual orientation, class, and disability plays and has historically played in informing social policy

Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives (Holsinger Donald B.)(Pevná vazba)

Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes a series of methods for measuring education

Financial Markets and Financial Services in India (Kunjukunju Benson)(Pevná vazba)

Economy/Society: Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure (Carruthers Bruce G.)(Paperback)

In this long-awaited second edition of Economy/Society Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure, authors Carruthers and Babb continue to offer an accessible introduction to the way social arrangements affect economic activity, and shows that economic exchanges are deeply embedded in social

Labour and the left in the 1980s (Davis Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. There are articles about

Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications (Schofield Neil C.)(Pevná vazba)

Commodity Derivatives In the newly revised Second Edition of Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications, expert trading educator and author Neil Schofield delivers a comprehensive overview of a wide variety of commodities and derivatives. Beginning with discussions of commodity markets

A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society (Rothwell Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Why political inequality is to blame for economic and social injusticePolitical equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special access to markets and public services. A Republic of Equals traces the massive income

Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia(Pevná vazba)

Europe's New State of Welfare: Unemployment, Employment Policies and Citizenship (Goul Andersen Jrgen)(Paperback)

It is often argued that European welfare states, with regulated labour markets, relatively generous social protection and relatively high wage equality, have become counter-productive in a globalised and knowledge-intensive economy. Using in-depth, comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of

Making Social Spending Work (Lindert Peter H.)(Pevná vazba)

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal what has worked, what needs changing, and who the winners and losers are under different systems. He traces the

Sports Charity and Gendered Labour (Palmer Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

Sports Charity and Gendered Labour provides examples for teaching and knowledge sharing across analyses of gender, sport, leisure, health and wellbeing in ways that will have broad relevance to a range of

A Year in the Art World (Israel Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

The world of contemporary art has become more globalized and transparent in the last few decades, yet it is still perceived as closed-off and obscure. In A Year in the Art World, Matthew Israel takes the reader on a cross-continental journey through a year in the field of art, lifting the veil on a

Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life (Green William)(Pevná vazba)

Assembling cultures: Workplace activism, labour militancy and cultural change in Britain's car factories, 1945-82 (Saunders Jack)(Pevná vazba)

A Course in Networks and Markets: Game-Theoretic Models and Reasoning (Pass Rafael)(Pevná vazba)

A graduate-level, mathematically rigorous introduction to strategic behavior in a networked world.This introductory graduate-level text uses tools from game theory and graph theory to examine the role of network structures and network effects in economic and information markets. The goal is for

Fair Trade from the Ground Up: New Markets for Social Justice (Linton April)(Pevná vazba)

Fair Trade promises to raise living standards in developing countries through: - worldwide minimum prices for commodities- support for democratically governed cooperatives- requirement of minimum wages and safety standards for workers- training to help producers improved quality and develop