The Trifurcating Miracle: Corporations, Workers, Bureaucrats, and the Erosion of Japan's National Economy 1317794443, 9781317794448

Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico 9780292767652

A government monopoly provides an excellent case study of state-society relationships. This is especially true of the to

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Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002 9780822385851

An attempt to gauge the impact of Chile's neoliberal reform policies and of the Chilean "economic miracle"

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The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas 9780801468056

In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization—and of NAFTA in particular—on the Nor

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Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries 0582300894, 9780582300897

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The Amorality of Public Corporations

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The Miracle of the Quran

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The National Policy and the Wheat Economy 9781487595449

First published in 1957, this study traces the development of the national policy as it affected the growth of the Canad

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Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the American West 0807831344, 9780807858318, 0807858315

A wage is more than a simple fee in exchange for labor, argues Geoff Mann. Beyond being a quantitative reflection of pro

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The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence 9780367690212, 9780367686222, 9781003140054

This edited collection examines the gig economy in the age of convergence from a critical political economic perspective

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The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy 9780814768570

Examines environmental inequality and racism in our globalized culture as evidenced by the social demographics of Silico

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