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  • Poverty as Subsistence

    The World Bank and Pro-Poor Land Reform in Eurasia

    by Mihai Varga ...
    Series series Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy
    Poverty as Subsistence explores the "propertizing" land reform policy that the World Bank advocated throughout the transitioning countries of Eurasia, expecting poverty reduction to result from distributing property titles over agricultural land to local (rural) populations. China's early 1980s land reform offered support for this expectation, but while the spread of propertizing reform to post ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine

    Striking with tied hands

    by Mihai Varga ...
    Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions. The book’s main idea is to study why and how successful forms of workers’ interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist context makes it difficult for workers and trade unions to mobilise, pose threats to employers, and ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

  • Universitas

    Why Higher Education Must Be International

    by Vicki Birchfield, Suzette Grillot, Maggi W.H. Leung, Gery Nijenhuis, Jyotika Saksena, Kyoko Shinozaki, Mihai Varga ...
    This book intervenes with urgency in the debate on the virtues, and pitfalls of internationalizing higher education. It unites voices of academics from around the globe with considerable experience with international higher education in a well-considered defense of the university as a public space transcending locality, counteracting parochialism, and defending the quality of scholarship. All ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe

    Edited by Katharina Bluhm, Mihai Varga ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book explores the emergence, and in Poland, Hungary, and Russia the coming to power, of politicians and political parties rejecting the consensus around market reforms, democratization, and rule of law that has characterized moves toward an "open society" from the 1990s. It discusses how over the last decade these political actors, together with various think tanks, intellectual circles, and ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Global Workers and Entangled Crises

    Biographical and Relational Approaches to Resilience

    by Diana Percă, Christian Fröhlich, Sofia Margarita Margarita Vinasco-Molina, Yenny Carolina Ramírez Suárez, Soner Barthoma, Susan Beth Rottmann, Emina Bužinkić, Nina Čolović, Könül Jafarova, Jacek Burski, Marina Fontolan, Aline Hasegawa, Liliana Acero, Carla Aguas, José Maria Trajano, Leda Gitahy ...
    Series series Advances in Biographical Research
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The early 2020s brought a torrent of disruptions – COVID-19, war-amplified inflation and migration blockages – that reshaped global labour in uneven and deeply unequal ways. Across the Global North and South, vulnerable workers faced deteriorating conditions, fractured livelihoods and growing distrust as chronic uncertainty was compounded ... Read more

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  • Postcommunist Welfare States

    Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe

    by Linda J. Cook ...
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    Postcommunist Europe after EU enlargement

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