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Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
Social choice and decision-making are key topics in economic theory and Robert Urquhart delves into the world of philosophy in this superb new book....
Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Sex differences abound in labor markets. In the United States three differences in particular have attracted the most attention: the earnings gap, occupational segregation, and the greater responsibility of women for child care and housework, and consequential lower participation in the labor...
Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
Much has been written on China's State-Owned Enterprises ( SOEs) reform following the restructuring impact on China's economic reform process in the last decade. However, as a major root of social and economic change, little has been discussed beyond a description of SOEs shortcomings and their...
Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
From the 1970s to the 1990s, China implemented a wide array of industrial policies to build up indigenous big business groups in their attempts to ‘catch-up’ with the industries of the developed world. With its entry into the WTO, China is under huge pressure to pursue the market-friendly policies...
Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
Recently, attempts have been made to understand the patterns of corporate technological diversification and their implications in economic and managerial dimensions. This book consolidates these attempts and breaks new ground by examining the patterns of technological diversification, and their...
Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics
Living wage activism has spanned time and space, reaching across decades and national boundaries. Conditions generating living wage movements early in the twentieth century have resurfaced in the twenty-first century, only on a global scale: 'sweated' labour, macroeconomic instability, and job...
Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
By concentrating on one of the key locations of global manufacturing, this volume offers a contribution to contemporary industry studies. The rates of growth that have characterized the southern Guangdong province in the last three decades are unique, even with respect to the more general and often...
Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia’s Fair Work Act. It is the first major study of the operation and impact of the new collective bargaining framework...
Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
Issues relating to the size of firms in manufacturing are central to the discussion of development strategies. This book offers an interpretation of growth trajectories in selected Asian economies in terms of the size-structure of enterprises in the manufacturing sector of these economies. The book...
Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
Regional disparity is one of the current pressing social issues. Many countries lack basic infrastructures of establishing a new business or industrial cluster. The book argues that existing arguments which have mostly focused on macroscopic view of economy of society...
Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
