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  • Mapping Legalities

    Urbanisation, Law and Informal Work

    Edited by Thomas Coggin, Roopa Madhav ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    This book maps the interactions between informal workers and the law within the urban and spatial environment. It focuses on access to physical space, revealing the punitive ways in which law regulates space and informal work which relies on space.Across various cities worldwide, the chapters in this book uncover how informal workers remain at the policy and legal margins of urban society and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Mediation in Collective Labor Conflicts

    Edited by Martin C. Euwema, Francisco J. Medina, Ana Belén García, Erica Romero Pender ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book opens up the black box of mediation in collective conflicts through the analyses and comparisons of various systems. Mediation and related third party interventions such as conciliation and facilitation are discussed as effective prevention and regulation tools for different types of collective labor conflicts. These interventions fit in a new developed five-phase model of ... Read more

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  • Creative Industries and Developing Countries

    Voice, Choice and Economic Growth

    Edited by Diana Barrowclough, Zeljka Kozul-Wright ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Political Economy
    Pushing the frontiers of the new development paradigm, this book guides debates, clarifies new themes and illustrates how the cultural resources of the developing world can become a new way of integrating into the global economy - helping to raise the voices of developing countries, widening the range of creative choices and promoting cultural diversity and economic and human development.Mixing ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Focusing Partnerships

    A Sourcebook for Municipal Capacity Building in Public-private Partnerships

    by Janelle Plummer ...
    Series series Municipal Capacity Building Series
    Despite the increasing occurrence of policies aimed at mobilising the financial and human resources of the private sector, most urban local governments responsible for urban basic services in the South do not have the capacity to initiate and sustain partnerships. Nor do they understand how they can create partnerships that target the poor. This sourcebook provides practical information and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Cities in a Globalizing World

    Global Report on Human Settlements

    by Un-Habitat ...
    'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanization and globalization ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • The State of Labour

    The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact

    Edited by Sharit K. Bhowmik ...
    This book analyzes the adverse effects of globalization and liberalization — acutely manifest in the increased financialization of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis of 2008–09 — on the labour force, especially in the developing countries. Drawing upon case studies from several countries including India, Columbia, Malawi, Brazil and Thailand, it highlights the worsening plight of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    by Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • How We Struggle

    A Political Anthropology of Labour

    by Sian Lazar ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    A comparative, ethnographic approach to the question of labour struggles and workers' political agency'A masterful book – a resource that makes anthropology matter’ - Andrea Muehlebach, Professor of Anthropology, University of BremenWhen it comes to labor movements, unionized industrial workers on the factory floor have only ever been part of the picture. Across so many different workplaces, ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Issues in Construction in Developing Countries

    Edited by George Ofori ...
    Series series CIB
    Economic growth and socio-economic development are particuliarly important for developing countries, and the construction industry plays a central role in driving both of these.Traditionally the issues faced have been assumed to be merely offshoots of those encountered in industrialised nations and are usually discussed only in this context. In addition, research in construction management and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights

    Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy

    by Ruth Pearson, Gill Seyfang, Rhys Jenkins ...
    The emergence of voluntary corporate codes of conduct since the early 1990s is both a manifestation of and a response to the process of globalization. They have been part of a more general shift away from state regulation of transnational corporations towards corporate self-regulation in the areas of labour and environmental standards and human rights. This work provides a critical perspective on ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers

    New Partners or Old Patterns?

    by Adolfo Kloke-Lesch, Manmohan Agarwal, Ross Herbert, James Mackie, Enrique Saravia, Zhou Hong, Maximo Romero ...
    The current framework of development cooperation is dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. But emerging economies have begun to accelerate their own development programmes, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution and reservation.This expert, topical volume explores the development policies of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Unbundled Government

    A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation

    Edited by Christopher Pollitt, Colin Talbot ...
    Public sector bureaucracies have been subjected to harsh criticism. One solution which has been widely adopted over the past two decades has been to 'unbundle government' - that is to break down monolithic departments and ministries into smaller, semi-autonomous 'agencies'. These are often governed by some type of performance contract, are at 'arm's length' or further from their 'parent' ministry ... Read more

    $76.99 USD