In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders arrived, wild objects from the far north became part of elite fashion, and unprecedented consumption had exhausted the region's most precious resources.
In A World Trimmed with Fur, Jonathan Schlesinger uses these diverse archives to reveal how Qing rule witnessed not the destruction of unspoiled environments, but their invention. Qing frontiers were never pristine in the nineteenth century--pearlers had stripped riverbeds of mussels, mushroom pickers had uprooted the steppe, and fur-bearing animals had disappeared from the forest. In response, the court turned to "purification;" it registered and arrested poachers, reformed territorial rule, and redefined the boundary between the pristine and the corrupted. Schlesinger's resulting analysis provides a framework for rethinking the global invention of nature.
Название: Global labour and the migrant premium ISBN: 1138606995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138606999 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8726.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the first book to systematically examine the full cost of labour migration, and is intended as a primer for evidence-based policy for reducing the costs of international labour mobility.
Автор: Reid, G. L. Название: Fringe Benefits, Labour Costs and Social Security ISBN: 1032026804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032026800 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 19906.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Fleming Anne Название: City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance ISBN: 0674976231 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674976238 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 6962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Since the 1890s, people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder in the U.S. have paid the highest price for credit. Anne Fleming tells how each generation has tackled the problem of fringe finance and its regulation. Her detailed work contributes to the broader, ongoing debate about the meaning of justice within capitalistic societies.
Описание: Class turmoil, labor, and law and order in Chicago
In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which by the late 1800s had grown into the most violent, turbulent city in America. Chicago was roiling with political and economic conflict, much of it rooted in class tensions, and the city's lawmakers and business elite fostered the growth of a professional municipal police force to protect capitalism, its assets, and their own positions in society. Together with city policymakers, the business elite united behind an ideology of order that would simultaneously justify the police force's existence and dictate its functions.
Tracing the Chicago police department's growth through events such as the 1855 Lager Beer riot, the Civil War, the May Day strikes, the 1877 railroad workers strike and riot, and the Haymarket violence in 1886, Mitrani demonstrates that this ideology of order both succeeded and failed in its aims. Recasting late nineteenth-century Chicago in terms of the struggle over order, this insightful history uncovers the modern police department's role in reconciling democracy with industrial capitalism.
Описание: This study explores issues of biomass energy use in relation to household welfare and it assesses Ethiopia’s future energy security with a focus on long-term model of the energy sector, and institutional arrangements required for decentralized energy initiatives. Data from Ethiopian rural households reveal negative welfare effects associated with traditional biomass energy utilization, while increases in the opportunity cost of fuelwood collection is associated negatively with allocation of labour to agriculture and fuelwood use. It appears that investment on integrated energy source diversification improves sustainability and resilience, but increases production cost. Innovations that improve alternative sources reduce production cost, improve energy security, and thus serve as an engine of economic growth.
Название: Why do people migrate? ISBN: 183867750X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838677503 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 8739.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By looking at case studies from around Europe, this book focuses on the impact of the expected labour market security on migration decision-making and will prove invaluable for researchers, leaders and policy makers in the field of politics and migration studies.
Автор: Gunnar Eliasson Название: Visible Costs and Invisible Benefits ISBN: 3319669923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319669922 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Executive Summary.- Chapter 1 Background and Economic Political Context.- Part I: Customer Competence, Military Technology and Civilian Industry.- Chapter 2 The Role of the Competent and Demanding Customer and Technological Product Competition in Industrial Evolution.- Chapter 3 Public Procurement of Privacy Demanded Public Goods as Innovation Policy.- Part II: Spillover Measurement: From Cases to Macro.- Chapter 4 The Swedish Military Aircraft Industry.- Chapter 5 Spillovers on Weapons Development and Civilian Technology Creation.- Chapter 6 The Linkцping, Karlskoga and Gothenburg/ Mцlndahl New Industrial Districts based on Military Technologies.- Chapter 7 Military Vehiciles on Land and at Sea.- Chapter 8 Worker and Engineer Learning on the Australian Collins Submarine Project.- Chapter 9 Industrial Competence Bloc Formation around Submarine Design.- Chapter 10 Indigenous Development or Buying off-the-shelf.- Part III: Theory and Empirical Method.- Chapter 11 Competition, Industrial Competence Bloc Formation and the Evolution of an Experimentally Organized Economy (EOE).- Chapter 12 Public Procurement of Privately Demanded Public Goods as Innovation Policy.- Chapter 13 Theories, Choice of Models and Estimation Methods.- Chapter 14 Economy Wide, Dynamic Long Term Model Based Cost Benefit Calculations.- Part IV: Political Economics.- Chapter 15 Political Economics.
Автор: P. N. (Raja) Junankar Название: Economics of the Labour Market ISBN: 1137555181 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137555182 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book would provide an important analysis of the labour market, including the problems of youth labour markets, unemployment, long-term unemployment, and the costs of unemployment. It provides alternative explanations of unemployment. It discusses the role of unemployment benefits, minimum wages, and aggregate demand on unemployment.
Автор: Philip S. Borba; David Appel Название: Benefits, Costs, and Cycles in Workers` Compensation ISBN: 9401074763 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401074766 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Workers` compensation insurance presents a set of institutional charac- teristics that are unique.
Описание: The articles in this volume were first presented at the Seventh and Eighth Conferences on Economic Issues in Workers` Compensation sponsored by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.
Описание: Common narratives about development in Africa miss the critical technological work of women. Twagira`s study instead positions Malian women as rural engineers whose strategic planning and labor over the course of the twentieth century assured their food security.
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