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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation - Paperback

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by Jeff Chang (Author), D. J. Kool Herc (Introduction by)Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created. Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycult...

Brazil's Developing Northeast: A Study of Regional Planning and Foreign Aid

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Report copyright infringementby Stefan Hyman Robock (Author), Unknown (Author)Author Biographybock /f Stefan /i Hyman Number of Pages: 230 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 03, 1980

Labor Commitment and Social Change in Developing Areas

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Report copyright infringementby Unknown (Author), Wilbert Ellis Moore (Editor), Arnold S. Feldman (Editor)This work examines the intended and unanticipated consequences of economic advancement in developing areas and the commitment of industrial labor. Both the short-term acceptance of the attitudes and beliefs appropriate to a modernized economy are discussed.Author Biographyore /f Wilbert /i Ellis /r ed. dman /f Arnold /i S. /r ed. Number of Pages: 396 Dimensions: ...

The Emergence of Modern South Africa: State, Capital, and the Incorporation of Organized Labor on the South African Gold Fields, 1902-1939

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Report copyright infringementby David Yudelman (Author)The Emergence of Modern South Africa views economic conflict, specifically the interaction of the state, big business, and labor, as the central issue in the development of South Africa. Yudelman focuses on the labor-management conflict in the country's gold fields in the early decades of this century, a time and place critical to the development of the state. At that time government walked a tightrope between supporting big business (to ...

Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West

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Report copyright infringementby Carl Abbott (Author), Unknown (Author) Number of Pages: 282 Dimensions: 0.99 x 8.54 x 5.68 IN Publication Date: August 27, 1981

Quality of Working Life in Western and Eastern Europe

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Report copyright infringementby Enid Mumford (Author), Cary L. Cooper (Editor), Enid Mumford (Editor)There has been increasing concern during the last decade to improve the quality of working life in Europe. Many industries are seeking to improve both working conditions and job satisfaction for their employees. The Quality of Working Life examines the issues raised by quality-of-working-life experiments, explores pioneer work done in Europe, and highlights specific developments in both Wester...

Decolonization and Dependency: Problems of Development of African Societies

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Report copyright infringementby Aguibou Y. Yansane (Author), Aguibou Y. Yansane (Other)Author Biographynsane /f Aguibou /i Y. Number of Pages: 342 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: June 03, 1980

Market and Society: Two Theoretical Frameworks

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Report copyright infringementby Milan Zafirovski (Author)Treating the market as a complex social category, and not just as a purely economic phenomenon, this book presents two frameworks for analyzing the market in relation to society. After presenting first the economic framework and then the sociological framework, the author combines the two and, when feasible and sensible, integrates them. The result is an original and enlightening examination of such subjects as the nature of the market,...

Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Costeloe (Author)Within a few years of their liberation from Spanish rule in the 1820s, several of the new Spanish American republics floated loans in London's financial market. All the debtor nations, from Mexico to Chile, had defaulted within five years, a situation which resulted in their exclusion from European capital markets for much of the 19th century. Most studies of such debt approach the subject from the debtor's viewpoint, some arguing that ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alvin Schorr (Author)Schorr provides an informed examination of the sources of welfare reform, its successes and considerable failures, and the economic and social forces that shaped the 1996 welfare reform. He summarizes developments in the history of welfare that led to an overwhelming public call for reform. Having participated in many of these developments as a high government official and as a policy practitioner, Schorr brings a unique perspective to thes...

Aging China: The Demographic Challenge to China's Economic Prospects

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Stowe England (Author), Center for Strategic and International S (Other)China, the world's most populous nation, will enter a period of rapid aging very shortly that will redefine that country. Between 2010 and 2040, the portion of people 65 and older will rise from around 7% to between 25 and 30% of the population. As China ages, can it retain the youthful dynamism now driving it? China, the world's most populous nation, will enter a period of rapid agi...

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Report copyright infringementby Alvin Louis Schorr (Author), Alvin L. Schorr (Author)Schorr provides an informed examination of the sources of welfare reform, its successes and considerable failures, and the economic and social forces that shaped the 1996 welfare reform. He summarizes developments in the history of welfare that led to an overwhelming public call for reform. Having participated in many of these developments as a high government official and as a policy practitioner, Schorr bri...

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Report copyright infringementby Vernon M. Briggs (Author)The Chicano Worker is an incisive analysis of the labor-market experiences of Mexican American workers in the late twentieth century. The authors-each established in the fields of labor economics and research on Chicano workers-describe the major employment patterns of the Chicano labor force and discuss the historical and institutional factors determining these patterns. This work speaks to the continuing widespread public interest in ...

The Road Oft Traveled: Development Policies and Majority State Ownership of Industry in Africa

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Report copyright infringementby John Quinn (Author)Many scholars of sub-Saharan Africa agree that inward-oriented development policies have hampered economic development in the region. Quinn questions traditional explanations for the low economic growth levels of sub-Saharan African countries by showing that majority state ownership of enterprise is a sufficient condition for inward-oriented policies and that this variable is a better predictor of such policies than other current explanations...

The Political Economy of Housing and Urban Development in Africa: Ghana's Experience from Colonial Times to 1998

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Report copyright infringementby Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang (Author)Providing adequate, accessible, and affordable housing is a major problem affecting many African countries. Focusing on the West African country of Ghana, Konadu-Agyemang explores the urban housing question in light of current development theories. He concludes that it would be naive to see Ghana's housing crisis primarily as a result of political instability or economic mismanagement. Instead, the author argues that economic and ...

Social Justice and the Welfare State in Central and Eastern Europe: The Impact of Privatization

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Report copyright infringementby Demetrius S. Iatridis (Editor)With the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, Central and Eastern European states have had to confront fundamental changes in economic, social, and governmental structures. So far, many of these countries in transition from a command to a market-based system have experienced rapid deterioration of socioeconomic conditions and standards of living. Although there have been successes in some areas, such as greater political and consumer choi...

The Feminization of Development Processes in Africa: Current and Future Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby James Etim (Author), Valentine James (Author)Women have historically provided vision and leadership to African countries and are now being recognized as pivotal to the overall sustainable development of Africa. In many cases, however, this recognition has not resulted in the empowerment of African women, who still face great discrimination. This edited volume explores the contributions women have made to all phases of development--planning, design, construction...

A Model Development Plan: New Strategies and Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby David H. Lempert (Author), Kim McCarty (Author), Craig Mitchell (Author)Here is a comprehensive development plan written as if vital communities, indigenous peoples, women, and the environment really mattered. This alternative type of development planning goes beyond statistics to incorporate the interests of the people that live in the community. As an experiment in development education and planning, one of the authors led a group of the country's leading und...

Uprooted Women: Migrant Domestics in the Caribbean

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Report copyright infringementby Paula L. Aymer (Author)A socio-historical and ethnographic account of pioneering Anglophone eastern Caribbean women who signed up to be migrant domestics in the Caribbean oil lands.Author BiographyPAULA L. AYMER is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Number of Pages: 184 Dimensions: 0.8 x 9.58 x 6.39 IN Publication Date: July 16, 1997

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Report copyright infringementby Hassan N. Diab (Author)Diab examines the social repercussions of Beirut's role as a financial, trade, and banking center in the Middle East during Lebanon's post-independence years (1943-1975). He investigates the development of Beirut and its early financial involvement in the region, particularly through the introduction of the cash crop, silk, to Mount Lebanon. He examines the impact of such involvement on steering the Lebanese social structure and economy t...

Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long Term Unemployment

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas J. Cottle (Author)Against the backdrop of a robust economy, hundreds of thousands of people in this country remain out of work for long periods of time, causing economic and psychological hardships for entire families. Hardest Times examines in depth what happens to men, and to their families, when they remain out of work for longer than six months, a period the government designates as long term unemployment. Cottle examines long term unemployment as a ...

Poverty, Ethnicity, and Gender in Eastern Europe During the Market Transition

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Emigh (Author), Ivan Szelenyi (Author)This provocative volume is the first book to offer an extensive examination of the nature of poverty and its relationship to gender and ethnicity in five post-communist societies. As nations make the difficult transition from socialism to capitalism, the extent and nature of poverty tends to change and, because of this, the proportion of the population living in poverty tends to change. As a result, the proportion o...

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Report copyright infringementby Rose M. Rubin (Author), Michael L. Nieswiadomy (Author)Characterizes the comparative lifestyles and wellbeing of heterogeneous older Americans by analyzing their expenditure patterns.Author BiographyROSE M. RUBIN is Professor of Economics at the University of Memphis. She is coauthor of Working Wives and Dual-Earner Families (Praeger, 1994). MICHAEL L. NIESWIADOMY is Professor of Economics at the University of North Texas. Number of Pages: 176 ...

Questioning Geopolitics: Political Projects in a Changing World-System

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Report copyright infringementby Georgi M. Derluguian (Editor), Scott L. Greer (Editor)This volume takes an enlightened step back from the ongoing discussion of globalization. The authors reject the notion that globalization is an analytically useful term. Rather, this volume shows globalization as merely the framework of the current political debate on the future of world power. Some of the many other novel ideas advanced by the authors include: the explicit prediction that East Asia is not g...

Beyond the Dependency Culture: People, Power and Responsibility in the 21st Century

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Report copyright infringementby James Robertson (Author)Communism has collapsed and socialism is discredited. Is this the end of history? No, James Robertson argues, precisely the opposite. 20th century capitalism and socialism propped each other up. Both belonged to the modern industrialized period of human history, when the powerful interest groups of business and state dominated people, and Euro-American culture and power dominated the world. An emerging post-modern worldview foreshadows p...

The Friedman System: Economic Analysis of Time Series

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Report copyright infringementby William Frazer (Author), Unknown (Author)This elaboration of the writings and statements of Milton Friedman is intended to create an economic system that moves the subject along theory-, fact-, and policy-oriented lines. Items directly attributable to Friedman are used in combination with an awareness of the unique breadth of his experience connected to statistical matters, and his work with Wesley C. Mitchell and others. In addition, some of the author's exper...

The Globalization of Capitalism in Third World Countries

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Report copyright infringementby Priyatosh Maitra (Author), Unknown (Author)The transformation and growth of capitalism in third world countries is examined by first looking at the beginnings and growth of capitalism in the developed industrialized world and at the various stages in which it is transplanted to less developed countries. This transplantation of capitalism brings about only the rapid growth of capital sector and not the complete capitalist transformation of a country. An interest...

Women and Sustainable Development in Africa

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Report copyright infringementby Valentine James (Author)Sustainable development has traditionally neglected the contributions of women until recently. Government and institutions in developing countries, as well as foreign aid agencies, are just beginning to realize the important roles filled by women as farmers, entrepreneurs, food providers, educators, and role models in developing countries and are attempting to integrate women into nongovernmental organization projects and voluntary organ...

To Have and To Hold: The Meaning of Ownership in the United States

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Report copyright infringementby Neala Schleuning (Author)Dr. Neala Schleuning provides a wide-ranging interdisciplinary exploration of the idea of ownership. She focuses primarily on the transition in modes and meaning of ownership since the emergence of the Industrial Revolution. Her primary argument is that the experience of ownership has been one of enclosure, which in turn conflicts with the goals of democratic society. Topics include land ownership, private property in a capitalist socie...

In Search of Security: A Socio-Psychological Portrait of Today's Germany

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Report copyright infringementby Gerd Langguth (Author), Dirk Johnson (Translator)Germany is the only country in the world where two major transformations are taking place at the same time: a process of modernization in the west and a transition from command economy to free market economy in the east. In this work, Langguth highlights the dramatic social and political changes occurring in east and west Germany. He concludes that the increasingly complex European political and social landscape ...

It's in the Cards: Consumer Credit and the American Experience

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Report copyright infringementby Lloyd Klein (Author)This is the first comprehensive account of the development of consumer credit. Consumer credit is a vital force driving the development of our economic system. Rather than look at consumer credit solely as an economic phenomenon, Klein examines the social impact of the consumer credit industry within the framework of economic and cultural change. His analysis offers a concise examination of the industry from the perspective of marketing, the...

Levels of Socio-economic Development Theory

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Report copyright infringementby David Jaffee (Author)Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and social scientists interested in a wide-ranging but concise review of contemporary theories of social and economic development will find this second edition invaluable. The coverage spans the disciplines of sociology, psychology, economics, political science, political economy, geography, and management. The theories are organized by level of analysis--individual, organizational, societal, and ...