1. Growth of U.S. Good Jobs -- 2. Low Costs and the Growth of Good U.S. Jobs -- 3. Winning Industries and the Growth of Good U.S. Jobs -- 4. Human Capital and the Growth of Good U.S. Jobs -- 5. Small Businesses and the Growth of Good U.S. Jobs -- 6. Technology and the Growth of Good U.S. Jobs -- 7. Amenities and the Growth of Good U.S. Jobs -- 8. New Products, Residents and Housing—and the Gr…
1. Introduction -- 2. Family structures and relationships -- 3. Families and welfare: public and private transfers -- 4. The extent and nature of lifetime gifts -- 5. The impacts of, and motivations for, lifetime gifts -- 6. Social norms on financial obligations within families -- 7. Public attitudes to different generations -- 8. Discussion: inter-generational gifts, family life and the role …
This book examines the development of women in the Hong Kong Police Force (HKP) over the past 68 years, beginning from the early colonial years when calls to include women in law enforcement first emerged, to the recruitment of the first female sub-inspector in 1949, and through to the current situation where policewomen constitute 15% of the total HKP establishment. What accounts for these dev…
Introduction: The Subterranean Stream -- 1. Communicative Capitalism and Call Centre Labour -- 2. Labour's Resistance in the Call Centre -- 3. The Making of the Call Centre Cybertariat -- 4. The Migration of Struggle -- 5. The Organization of Autonomy -- 6. The Making and the Unmaking of the Global Call Centre Workforce.This book examines the striking rise of call centres over the past quarter …
1. Failures and Achievements of the Past -- 2. Which Revolution? -- 3. Peaceful Transition -- 4. Globalization and Socialism in One Country -- 5. Which Socialism? -- 6. Social Classes -- 7. Practical Steps.Through a series of conversations with prominent theorists and leading political activists in different parts of the world, this book explores the causes of the setbacks of both the reformist…
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Legitimation Crisis of the Capitalist Market Economy?; Steffen Schneider and Henning Schmidtke -- Part I -- Chapter 2. The Legitimacy of the Capitalist Market Economy and Its Normative Foundations; Frank Nullmeier and Dominika Biegoń -- Chapter 3. Towards a Legitimation Crisis? Contours and Trajectories of National Discourses; Henning Schmidtke and Steffen Schneider …
Introduction: Moving pictures -- 1. A contested identity: genesis of the Eurocrat figure: between stigma and affirmation of a differentiated supranational body -- 2. The making of a status group: Reconsidering socialization to the European Institutions -- 3. Genesis and structure of European bureaucratic capital: Senior European Commission officials -- 4. Soft skills versus expertise and know…
1 Introduction -- 2. Background: Encyclopaedias and the digital revolution -- 3. Wikipedia -- 4.The outside of cognitive capitalism understood through ideology analysis -- 5. Wikipedians’ views on their activities.-6. Complement or alternative to the commons’ outside? -- 7. The ideological formations take shape.This book relates Wikipedians’ conceptions of their activities in terms of pla…
I. Introduction -- II. Policy Paradoxes: Challenges Confronting the Contemporary Arctic -- III. The Arctic Council in Transition -- IV. Chairs and International Organizations: The Case of the Arctic Council -- V. The Swedish Chairmanship: Foresight and Hindsight in Arctic Activism -- VI. The Canadian Chairmanship: Development or Bust -- VII. The U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council: Round Tw…
Introduction: Networked Governance: Taking Networks Seriously -- Part I: Networked Governance: General Issues -- Part II: Types, Processes and Limits of Networked Governance -- Part III: Investigating Networked Governance: Methodological Approaches -- Part IV: Conclusions.This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis…