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  • Social Integration Of Rural-urban Migrants In China: Current Status, Determinants And Consequences

    Series Libro 13 - Series On Chinese Economics Research
    This book focuses on rural-urban migrants in China. They are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the country but are essential to the country's industrialization and urbanization. Integration of these migrants into urban societies is an urgent issue facing Chinese policy makers. The book provides an updated, systematic, empirically rich, and multifaceted analysis of migrant ... Leer más

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    Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war.By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun ... Leer más

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  • Theory of the Leisure Class - The Original Classic Edition

    Its true to say that Veblens book is one of the great classics of economic theory; however, such a description suggests (at least to non-economists like myself) that the book will be either dull or remorselessly technical. On the contrary, The Theory of the Leisure Class is stylishly written, endlessly startling (for example, Veblen analyses religion as an outgrowth of the gambling instinct), and ... Leer más

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  • Janesville

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  • Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: the best of Joe Bageant

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    Essentially, it comes down to the fact that a very large portion of Americans are crazier than shithouse rats and are being led by a gang of pathological misfits, most of whom are preachers and politicians.In 2004, at the age of 58, writer Joe Bageant sensed that the internet could give him editorial freedom. Without having to deal with gatekeepers, he began writing about what he was really ... Leer más

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  • What I Saw in America

    "What I Saw in America" is a group of essays by using the famend ENG author G. K. Chesterton, providing his eager observations and reflections at the United States in the course of his go to inside the early Twenties. Chesterton, celebrated for his wit and highbrow intensity, brings a completely unique and sometimes paradoxical attitude to his analysis of American society and tradition. Throughout ... Leer más

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  • Hollowing Out the Middle

    The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America

    Two sociologists reveal how small towns in Middle America are exporting their most precious resource—young people—and share what can be done to save these dwindling communitiesIn 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and ... Leer más

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  • Global Dreams

    Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo

    At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city's desert expanses, exemplify three decades of economic liberalization. In the surrounding social ... Leer más

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  • Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa

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  • Boom and Bust

    The rise and fall of the mining industry, greed and the impact on everyday Australians

    This is a cautionary tale. About greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past.Australia's mining boom is still talked about with a sense of awe. This once-in-a-lifetime event capped off 25 straight years of economic growth. Thanks to mining we sidestepped the worst of the Global Financial Crisis. To the rest of the world Australia was an economic miracle. And then the boom ended.Now ... Leer más

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  • Access to Inequality

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    Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction within American higher education. In other words, despite the well-intended, now mature process of democratization, the postsecondary system is still charged with high levels of inequality. In the interest ... Leer más

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  • Routledge Revivals: Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers (1977)

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    Industrial discipline in mining, quarrying, brickmaking and other classes of mineral work was very different to that in nineteenth-century factories and mills. First published in 1977, this book deals with mineral workers of every class and discusses the peculiarities and common features of their work. It offers three detailed local studies: pit life in County Durham, slate quarrying in North ... Leer más

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