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  • Transit States

    Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf

    Edited by Abdulhadi Khalaf, Omar AlShehabi, Adam Hanieh ...
    There are vast swathes of people in economic migration across the Gulf states today. In total, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. This book studies the impact of this mass migration, and its effect on citizenship and workers' rights.Transit States considers how the transitory labour power these ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contested Modernity

    Sectarianism, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Bahrain

    by Omar H. AlShehabi ...
    Series series Radical Histories of the Middle East
    Discussions of the Arab world, particularly the Gulf States, increasingly focus on sectarianism and autocratic rule. These features are often attributed to the dominance of monarchs, Islamists, oil, and ‘ancient hatreds’. To understand their rise, however, one has to turn to a largely forgotten but decisive episode with far-reaching repercussions – Bahrain under British colonial rule in the early ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • White Working Class

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  • Offshoring of American Jobs

    What Response from U.S. Economic Policy?

    by Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Alan S. Blinder ...
    Series series Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy at Harvard University
    Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the “offshoring” of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.It is no surprise that many fearful American workers see the call center operator in Bangalore or the factory worker in Guangzhou as a threat to their jobs. The emergence of China and India (along with other, smaller developing countries) as economic powers has ... Read more

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  • Masculinities in Transition

    by V. Robinson, J. Hockey ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary masculinity. ... Read more

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Industrial Relations

    Edited by Edmund Heery, Jack Fiorito, Paul Blyton, Nicolas A Bacon ...
    This handbook is an indispensable teaching, research and reference guide for anyone interested in issues of labour and employment. The editors have assembled a top-flight group of authors and the end-product is an encompassing state-of-the-art review of the industrial relations field′ - Professor Bruce E Kaufman, AYSPS, Georgia State University′This Handbook will quickly become the standard ... Read more

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  • Fitness Culture

    Gyms and the Commercialisation of Discipline and Fun

    by Roberta Sassatelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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    A Study in American Continentalism Before the First World War

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    Series series Heritage
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  • Workplace Flexibility

    Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce

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