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The Challenge of Transition: Trade Unions in Russia, China and Vietnam (Non-Governmental Public Action)
by Tim Pringle Simon ClarkeThis book explores the transformation of employment relations, the rise of worker protest and the reform of trade union practice to ask how successfully the state-socialist trade unions have adapted to their new role of representing the rights and interests of workers.
An Introduction to Animals and the Law (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series)
by Joan E. SchaffnerThis exploration of the newly emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal lawpresents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animals, analyzing and critiquing them, and proposing a future where the legal regime properly recognizes and protects the inherent worth of all animals.
Social Movements, Public Spheres and the European Politics of the Environment: Green Power Europe?
by Hein-Anton van der HeijdenThis book analyzes how the European environmental movement has influenced the problem definitions and solution strategies of European policy issues, examining biodiversity, GMOs, Trans-European Transport Networks, and climate change.
Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
by Ann DaviesA collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship. The essays reveal the far-reaching shifts that have occurred in the Spanish film scene, making essential reading for all interested in European cinema.
New Trade Union Activism: Class Consciousness or Social Identity?
by S. MooreThe past decade has seen the emergence of new types of trade union representatives attracting new and more diverse activists; this book explores their motivations and values, drawing upon the voices of the activists themselves and capturing the relationship between work, social identity and class consciousness.
The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting
by Anne Collett and Louise D’ArcensBy investigating women lifewriters' complex quest to distinguish themselves both within and from institutions and communities, this volume uses Kant's concept of unsociable sociability to formulate a divided sense of self at the heart of women's lifewriting, offering a provocative response to the notion of the relational female subject.
Ethnic, Racial and Religious Inequalities: The Perils of Subjectivity (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship)
by M. MaceyThis book challenges some of the most basic assumptions underpinning the growing interest in religion, including: that religion is increasing and secularisation is decreasing and that religion is the main component of identity for all minority ethnic people.
The Politics of International Migration Management (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship)
by Martin Geiger and Antoine P�coudThroughout the world, governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration are developing new approaches aimed at renewing migration policy-making. This book, now in paperback, critically analyzes the actors, discourses and practices of migration management.
Have Japanese Firms Changed?: The Lost Decade (Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series)
by Hiroaki Miyoshi & Yoshifumi NakataIf we ask simply whether Japanese business has changed, our answer must be an unequivocal yes and this is answered with a primary focus on technology, the traditional source of Japan's strong competitiveness. But if we ask whether Japanese firms have also changed in any substantive ways we must accept a less sanguine conclusion.
Networks in the Russian Market Economy
by M. LonkilaA PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book examines the significance of networks among the firms operative in the contemporary Russian software industry in the St. Petersburg region.
Next Generation Talent Management: Talent Management to Survive Turmoil
by A. HatumIn the past talent was largely an issue for Human Resources personnel. Now, in an era characterized by workforce heterogeneity and changing environments, talent is an important issue for managers themselves. This book explains the organizational transformations that have occurred and the new talent challenges managers have to confront.
When Business Meets Culture: Ideas and Experiences for Mutual Profit
by Beatriz Muñoz-Seca & Josep RiverolaThe cultural sector is gaining increasing importance in our economies, consistantly registering growth rates above average GDP. This book presents insights on how cultural institutions can find new perspectives in their management and provides ideas to hasten culture's role as an economic developer.
People-Centred Businesses: Co-operatives, Mutuals and the Idea of Membership
by J. BirchallSo what is a member-owned business? What does it look like? How can we distinguish it from an investor-owned business? The crucial distinction is between a business that is people-centred, and one that is money-centred. This book explores the growing number of companies which use this model and their wider significance in society.
The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture
by E. PineIrish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a new analysis of theatre, film, television, memoir and art, and interrogates the anti-nostalgia that characterizes so much of contemporary Irish culture.
A Social and Economic Theory of Consumption
by David Kivinen Keijo Rahkonen Jukka Gronow Arto NoroKaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption, arguing that the enthusiasm of 'the third wave' exaggerated the role of the symbolic and imaginary at the expense of the materiality of human societies.
Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work: Dimensions of Transformative Practice
by M. Büscher D. Goodwin J. MesmanThis book explores ethnographic studies of diagnostic work in diverse settings. Switching attention from product ('diagnosis') to process ('diagnosing'), it reveals the importance of collaborative, socio-material, technologically augmented practices, exploring the potential of the multi-disciplinary studies presented to inform innovation.
Technology, Culture, Family: Influences on Home Life (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)
by E. SilvaThis book examines connections between personal, relational and material matters in everyday life in the context of broader and long standing social problems. It explores the connections between mundane practices in the reproduction of our bodies and our relations with those we live with, and the technological practices that inform daily life.
HIV Treatment and Prevention Technologies in International Perspective
by M. Davis C. SquireThis edited collection investigates the biomedical and social technologies used to control the HIV pandemic through case studies and critical commentaries from Africa, Europe, North America and Australia. With reference to global and local complexities, the volume engages with HIV treatment access, community-based health promotion, sexual health, HIV prevention and the relations between treatment and prevention. The volume includes chapters from leading authors in their fields and takes a trans-disciplinary approach by making reference to theoretical and empirical research from sociology, psychology, cultural studies and science and technology studies, thus helping to establish new ways of understanding current and future configurations of HIV technologies.
Children and Migration: At the Crossroads of Resiliency and Vulnerability
by Marisa O. EnsorProviding a comprehensive analysis of the increasingly common phenomenon of child migration, this volume examines the experiences of children in a wide variety of migratory circumstances including economic child migrants, transnational students, trafficked, stateless, fostered, unaccompanied and undocumented children.
The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament (EU Election Studies)
by Juliet LodgeAn analysis of the 2009 European elections in each of the 27 member states of the newly enlarged European Union, and assessment of the European Parliament in 2004-2009. This book looks at the implications of low turnout for the future of European Union democracy and accountability.
Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses (International Political Economy Series)
by Paul Bowles & John HarrissGlobalization has pushed China and India to the centre of the stage but what has been the impact on workers in these countries? This book demonstrates the complexity of the processes and responses at play. There are signs that both states are shifting their role in a 'counter movement from above'. But will this be enough to quell the social unrest?
Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey (New Perspectives on South-East Europe)
by A. Aktar N. Kizilyürek U. Ozkirimli Niyazi K Z LyürekNationalism in the Troubled Triangle is the first systematic study of nationalism in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey from a comparative perspective. Bringing scholars from Greece, Turkey and both sides of Cyprus (and beyond) together, the book provides a critical account of nation-building processes and nationalist politics in all three countries.
The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction
by S. HenstraA wide-ranging study that examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to treat grief as an occasion for social critique, unconventional readings of works by Ford, Lessing, and Winterson demonstrate how narrative experimentation in this period responds to socio-historic conditions like post-imperial melancholy, nuclear fear and homophobia.
Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by L. Calè P. Di Bello Patrizia Di BelloPaying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting, revealing new readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, James and Wilde, among others.
Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre (Studies in International Performance)
by Shannon SteenAn exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the boundaries between racial groups in an international context.