The Urbanization of People. The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City, Paperback - Eli Friedman

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ryan BoehmIllustration(s): 6 mapsNumber of pages: 316Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 22...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Mark R. BeissingerIllustration(s): 77 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 592Publication date: 20...

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A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.

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This collection of essays by leading American historians explains how and why the fight against unionism has long been central to the meaning of co...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Mark R. BeissingerIllustration(s): 77 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 592Publication date: 20...

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Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in the history of America's social movements. This new ...

The focus of the global economy has increasingly shifted toward China and emerging countries. However, despite their high growth prospects, emergin...

Description Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from th...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Philine-Luise PulstNumber of pages: 352Collection: Deutsches Und Internationales WirtschaftPublication date: 2022Di...

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How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its people Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) h...

Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism...

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Argues that global supply chain integration pits firms and industries that are dependent on foreign supply chains against those that are less depen...

This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis - the leading et...

The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narr...

Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, ec...

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For the first time, Anton Wagner's groundbreaking 1935 book that launched the study of Los Angeles as an urban metropolis is available in English.P...

This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America. It focuses on t...

With empirical case studies of Walmart's entry into Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this book reveals how the world's largest private employer has...

This book presents a remarkable picture of the men and machines that played such an important part in the early history of flight.Illustrations: Ap...

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Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. This title argues tha...

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Property rights are important for economic exchange, but many governments don't protect them. Private market organizations can fill this gap by pro...

Studies how the Chinese Communist Party uses and reforms its taxation institution to promote economic growth and governance quality while limits th...

China's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imper...

This book sheds light on the mega-city region development in China as a new form of urbanization which plays a crucial role in the economic develop...

In this portrait of life in Ancient Rome, the author begins by painting a backcloth on which the social, political, cultural and religious aspects ...

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Illustrates how states appeal to popular morality to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats. In an era where st...

This important study of the relationship between historical developments and the work of the scholars associated with the Frankfurt Institute for S...