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Monograph arguing against the practice of 'reverse discrimination' with regard to equal opportunities for minority groups in the USA - maintains that affirmative action programmes entailing sex discrimination, religious discrimination or racial discrimination, etc. Serve to contribute to the problem of inequality rather than to its alleviation, and includes definitions of the different kinds of discrimination. Bibliography pp. 150 to 168.

Monograph comprising a comparison of employment discrimination in the USA and Canada - comments on labour legislation, regulations and jurisprudence prohibiting sex discrimination and racial discrimination, discusses the theoretical background, examines trade union attitudes and management attitudes to unequal opportunity, etc., and includes a literature survey. References and statistical tables.

"Portrays the more complex reality of Muslim integration into French politics and society. Special attention devoted to the policies developed by successive French governments to encourage integration and discourage extremism"--Provided by publisher. Nearly five million Muslims call France home, the vast majority from former French colonies in North Africa. While France has successfully integrated waves of immigrants in the past, this new influx...

Monograph comprising a sociological study tracing the history of the league of revolutionary Black workers, an motor vehicle industry trade union movement in the USA - outlines historical antecedants to strained race relations and racial discrimination which contributed to the development of the Marxism political ideology of the Detroit based league, and discusses its struggle against the united auto workers trade union and the internal political...

"Is the United States justified in seeing itself as a meritocracy, where stark inequalities in pay and employment reflect differences in skills, education, and effort? Or does racial discrimination still permeate the labor market, resulting in the systematic underhiring and underpaying of racial minorities, regardless of merit? Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s African Americans have lost ground to whites in the labor market, but this widening...

Analyses the rise of black unemployment since 1920 when Blacks came into the urban labour markets from Southern farms.

This thoughtful discussion probes the international roots of Africa's civil conflicts and lackluster economies. Analyzing an unwitting system that creates a set of incentives inimical to development, the authors offer a new way of thinking about Africa's development dilemmas and the policy options for addressing them. Weak states, aid dependence, crushing debt, and enclave economies, argue the authors, create disincentives for long-term economic growth...

Overview: In the highly-anticipated second edition of Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy, authors Sweet and Meiksins once again provide a rich analysis of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Through engaging vignettes and rich data, this text frames the development of jobs and employment opportunities in an international comparative perspective, revealing the historical transformations...

Must reading for those social scientists who would understand the role of West Indians in Panamerican politics and society. Michael Coniff is to be commended for an excellent study.

"Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society - above all, in the "making" and remaking of the American working class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing mainly on longshoremen in the ports of New York, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and on steelworkers in many of the nation's steel towns, it examines how European immigrants became American and "white" in the crucible of the industrial workplace...