ISBN: 0812975243, 9780812975246
Authors: Rob Gifford,
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: rising, power, future, journey, road, china
Pages: 352
Published: 2008-06-03
Category: Economics, Business & Investing,
List Price: 17.00 USD

• Rating: 80%

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The hi......

ISBN: 0385520182, 9780385520188
Authors: Leslie T. Chang,
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Keywords: changing, china, city, village, girls, factory
Pages: 448
Published: 2009-08-04
Category: Economics, Business & Investing,
List Price: 16.00 USD

• Rating: 80%

An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Fact......

ISBN: 060980281X, 9780609802816
Authors: Michael Brower, warren Leon,
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Keywords: advice, union, concerned, scientists, practical, choices, guide, effective, environmental, consumer
Pages: 304
Published: 1999-03-30
Category: Economics, Business & Investing,
List Price: 15.00 USD

• Rating: 80%

From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment.        Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house......

ISBN: 0415341191, 9780415341196
Authors: Frank Ellis, h. Ade Freeman,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: studies, development, economics, routledge, policies, livelihoods, poverty, reduction, rural
Pages: 440
Published: 2004-12-23
Category: Economics, Business & Investing,
List Price: 240.00 USD

This important new collection of contributions brings together current thinking on poverty reduction and rural livelihoods in developing countries. As well as leading economists in the field such as Frank Ellis and Chris Barrett, there are a numbe......

ISBN: 0415313821, 9780415313827
Authors: Charles Levinson,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: routledge, editions, economics, library, revolution, industry, democratic
Pages: 352
Published: 2003-09-24
Category: Popular Economics, Business & Investing,
List Price: 235.00 USD

Covering the role of trades unions and labour organizations in industrial relations, Industry's Democratic Revolution contains case studies from Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA. Each chap......

ISBN: 0415342112, 9780415342117
Authors: Francesco Farina, ernesto Savaglio,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: studies, political, economy, siena, routledge, economic, integration, inequality
Pages: 352
Published: 2006-04-12
Category: Economics, Business & Investing,
List Price: 190.00 USD

Internationally, globalization and increased economic integration has impacted quality of life and individual well-being. Attempts to evaluate the impact on income dispersion from this process have been extremely controversial. This key volume is ......

ISBN: 0415269393, 9780415269391
Authors: J. Currie,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: children, welfare, economics, labour
Pages: 184
Published: 2002-05-03
Category: Economics, Business & Investing,
List Price: 195.00 USD

This book examines the major US welfare programs affecting children and presents a systematic evaluation of the evidence regarding the effects of welfare programs on the children themselves.......

ISBN: 0415914191, 9780415914192
Authors: Uma Narayan,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: feminism, thinking, gender, world, third, cultures, identities, traditions, dislocating
Pages: 240
Published: 1997-07-25
Category: Economics, Business & Investing,
List Price: 38.95 USD

• Rating: 80%

Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces t......

ISBN: 0471110582, 9780471110583
Authors: Entrepreneur Magazine,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: export, business, import, starting, magazine, entrepreneur
Pages: 256
Published: 1995-07-21
Category: Economics, Business & Investing,
List Price: 99.95 USD

From the source you trust most-everything you need to start up, grow, and prosper in international trade...If you're excited by the opportunities you see in international trade but nervous about facing a world of problems you don't understand......

ISBN: 0416737803, 9780416737806
Authors: Peter Dickens, simon Duncan, mark Goodwin, fred Gray,
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Keywords: localities, states, housing
Pages: 350
Published: 1985-12
Category: Economics, Business & Investing,
List Price: 56.00 USD