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Artisanal and small-scale mining formalization in ghana
The main key benefit of this book is its use of decoloniality in the examination of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) formalization. While there have been many cross-disciplinary explorations of formalization as a concept, the originality of this book lies not only in its interpretation...
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Global ambitions and local identities
This study of a successful Israeli high-tech company's merger with an American competitor offers an important contribution to a better understanding of the social and personal ramifications of mergers. Based upon in-depth fieldwork, the book explores the reality behind the statistics, balance s...
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Disrupted landscapes
An environmental history of postsocialism. An ethnography of the bureaucracy of Southeastern European countries. Portrays environmental changes in the postsocialist world. Discusses local political dynamics in the rural postsocialist world.
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Europe at the seaside
Mass tourism is one of the most striking developments in postwar western societies, involving economic, social, cultural, and anthropological factors. For many countries it has become a significant, if not the primary, source of income for the resident population. The Mediterranean basin, which...
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The rise of market society in england, 1066-1800
A case study of one of the most successful market societies, carving out both the merits and limits of markets with respect to economic development and the development of civil society. Draws comparisons between the rise of a market society and modern capitalism in England and the circum...
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People, money and power in the economic crisis
Based on empirical research. Combines empirical research with an analysis of wider processes of social, economic and political change. Comes out of an innovative network of scholars associated with the Human Economy Programme.
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Sustainable development
Focus on sustainable development in the Middle East region. Utilises the wide range of contributors’ disciplinary backgrounds. The interdisciplinary integration across the volume, is essential to meaningful discussion of sustainable development.
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The forgotten majority
Assesses the causes of the migration of German merchants to London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars, as well as the establishment of their businesses and the global reach of their enterprises. Investigates trhe commercial function of British natu...
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Learning on the shop floor
Apprenticeship or vocational training is a subject of lively debate. Economic historians tend to see apprenticeship as a purely economic phenomenon, as an ‘incomplete contract’ in need of legal and institutional enforcement mechanisms. The contributors to this volume have adopted a broader pers...
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Latin america facing china
The last quarter of the twentieth century was a period of economic crises, increasing indebtedness as well as financial instability for Latin America and most other developing countries; in contrast, China showed amazingly high growth rates during this time and has since become the third larges...
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Hunters and gatherers in the modern world
In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and gatherers attract particularly strong interest because they occupy the ecological niches that are constantly eroded. Despite the denial of sovereignty, the world's more tha...
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Slipping away
During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region’s rural communities was devastating. This vol...
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Coping with tourists
Once content to sunbathe and follow guides and established itineraries, tourists are increasingly seeking authentic culture. This is taking them into the private areas and zones to which the locals retire in order to escape the tourist gaze, creating tensions between the two groups. Based on re...
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Work in a modern society
No other new studies on the history of work and labour in the German speaking world available Documents recent original research by German speaking scholars whose work is not easily accessible in English Relates historical findings to the present in which the restructuring of the wor...
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The history of labour intermediation
Investigates job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Explores how looking for work becomes a means by which participants articulated specific interests, perspectives, and agendas. The chapters illustrat...
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Going first class?
People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripat...
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The power of entrepreneurs
Although Spain is an important member of the EU, relatively little is known about its economy and its interrelationship with political forces. This book, the first of its kind, offers a long-term view and analyzes this ever-changing relationship throughout the 20th century with its various uphe...
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Culturing money
Gives detailed analyses of some of the ways in which living people grapple with and try to make sense of pressing social and economic challenges in times of societal transformations posed by emergent capitalist relations and an increased influence of and dependence on a market economy. While...
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From telegrapher to titan
William Van Horne, general manager of the CPR, pushed through construction of the transcontinental line and went on to become company president.
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Gentrified labour
What counts as ‘good’ work under contemporary Western capitalism? As middle-class occupations demand greater attachment to work amid structural insecurity, many workers turn to manual and material work in search of meaningful work. The book shows how jobs previously considered as low-status are ‘...
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China cure
An insider’s perspective on how China’s healthcare is developing, where it offers lessons for the West and how it could shape the practice and delivery of medicine worldwide.
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Semiconductors and nanoelectronic chips
Semiconductors or chips form the basis of modern electronics. This book aims to showcase the pervasive role of semiconductors in modern life and their growing importance in AI-driven technologies. It emphasizes the need for enhanced performance to cope with the unprecedented AI demand. It also ad...
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Saudi arabia matters
This book is inspired by the far-reaching transformation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as it advances toward a diversified, knowledge-based economy. At the heart of this transition are key priorities such as local content development, industrial diversification, SME empowerment, fiscal sustainab...
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Food science, sustainability and bioeconomy
As the world’s food systems grapple with intensifying climate shocks, resource constraints, rapid technological shifts, and evolving consumer expectations, the urgency to re-envision food business through the lens of innovation sciences and the bioeconomy has never been greater. This book bridges...
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