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"This book illustrates that, across cultures, economy can be understood as a combination of both community and market forces. Drawing from the work of anthropologists, as well as that of economists, sociologists, historians, geographers, feminists, and post-Marxists, Gudeman presents an anthropological approach to economy that highlights the centrality of communal processes in the market. His inclusion of more than fifty cross-cultural examples from...
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"Western culture is based on exclusion. Its society places 'others' - women, blacks, children, the old, those with alternative lifestyles, gays, the disabled - as outsiders. At the core of this marginalization is the tendency of powerful groups to 'purify' and dominate space, to create fear of minorities and to ultimately exclude their voices and their knowledge."--BOOK JACKET. "Geographies of Exclusion analyses the construction of socio-spatial boundaries...
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"Professors Leisering and Leibfried explore the relationship between welfare policies and individual life trajectories by way of a time-based (dynamic) analysis of poverty, combining quantitative and qualitative methods, and suggest the need for a radical rethinking of conventional theoretical and policy approaches. The core of this study is the empirical analysis of the life course of claimants of 'Social Assistance' in West and East Germany, although...
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"Drive through just about any low-income neighborhood and you're sure to see streets lined with pawnshops, check cashers, rent-to-own stores, payday and tax refund lenders, auto title pawns, and buy-here-pay-here used car lots. We're awash in "alternative financial services" directed at the poor and those with credit problems. Howard Karger describes this world as an economic Wild West, where just about any financial scheme that's not patently illegal...
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This economic history examines the political, institutional and economic forces that shaped Latin America's complex development process over the 20th century. Quantitative data is examined alongside the region's political economies to provide a context for the successes and failures.
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This text outlines Avishai Margalit's social philosophy, based on the foundation that a decent or civilized society is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and whose citizens do not humiliate each other. This allows people to live together with dignity.
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""Globalization" has become a loaded term. Should we in the West believe, literally, that trade with poor nations can be blamed for our "impoverishment"? In this book, Daniel Cohen claims that there is practically no foundation for such an alarmist position. We need to reverse the commonly held view that globalization has caused today's insecure labor market. On the contrary, Cohen argues, our own propensity for transforming the nature of work has...
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"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...
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Today more than eight million Americans live in neighborhoods of extreme economic deprivation, social isolation, and often terrifying violence. The number of ghettos, barrios, and slums in the United States has more than doubled since 1970, and the proportion of the poor who live in them has risen dramatically. Policymakers and the public alike are increasingly concerned about the emergence of an "underclass" population in these blighted neighborhoods....
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Charles A. Reich's new book breaks the prolonged silence of progressive voices in the face of increasing social breakdown. Carrying forward the analysis in his best-selling classic, The Greening of America, he calls for a fundamental change of direction before our country is torn apart by internal conflict. The past twenty-five years have demonstrated that uncontrolled economic power destroys the organic basis of human society, causing insecurity,...
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Drawing upon a case study of a plant closing in Wisconsin and the results of national labor force surveys showing the displacement of millions of workers each year, this book examines the consequences of the rise in economic instability. Among those consequences are a productivity slowdown, increased disparities in earnings and income, and higher average unemployment. Moore assesses the extent of job loss nationwide, its costs to the individuals directly...
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