Society is a system of human organizations generating distinctive cultural patterns,, and institutions and institutions providing protection, secure, continuity and a national identity for its members.
This book provides a one-stop resource for understanding the full dimensions of income inequality in the United States, including chief socioeconomic drivers of inequality and proposals to reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in America.
For decades, the outside world mostly knew Myanmar as the site of a valiant human rights struggle against an oppressive military regime, predominantly through the figure of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
First published in 1978, Issues in Social Policy is designed as a basic textbook for social administration students in universities, polytechnics and similar institutions, and for students in allied fields such as medicine, nursing and public administration.
First published in 1979, The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events and factors that led to the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1946.
First published in 1979, The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events and factors that led to the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1946.
First published in 1978, Issues in Social Policy is designed as a basic textbook for social administration students in universities, polytechnics and similar institutions, and for students in allied fields such as medicine, nursing and public administration.
This book enables readers to better understand, explain, and predict the future of the nation's overall economic health through its examination of the black working class-especially the experiences of black women and black working-class residents outside of urban areas.
A provocative look at how grassroots GAA interacts with life in Ireland, from the wittiest Gaelic games pundit at work today The GAA is Ireland's largest civil society organisation, woven into the fabric of families and communities - and yet most books about Gaelic games focus on the greatest players and inter-county teams.
Originally published in 1983, this book filled a gap in the existing literature, because the effect of credit upon a family's real income was frequently omitted in studies of living standards.
As the racial hierarchy shifts and inequality between Americans widens, it is important to understand the impact of social class on the rapidly growing multiracial population.
'A sympathetic and perceptive account of a fine writer at a critical moment in our cultural life' KEN LOACHOn 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London.
In seiner ethnologischen Studie zu Roma-/Zigeunereliten bricht Tobias Marx mit der herkömmlichen Perspektive auf Roma und Zigeuner in den Ländern des Balkanraums.
Riehls bekanntestes Werk ist die "Naturgeschichte des deutschen Volkes als Grundlage einer deutschen Socialpolitik"(4 Bände, 1851-1869), in dem geographische Faktoren, soziale Verhältnisse und deutsche Kultur- und Lebensweise hervorgehoben werden.
The Origins of British Industrial Relations (1975) traces the beginnings of industrial relations in nineteenth century Britain, looking at the interdependence of economic, political, legal and ideological factors that provide the framework.
De Quincey, der seit dem siebten Lebensjahr verwaist ist und unter der nachlässigen Vormundschaft von vier Personen aufgewachsen ist, verbringt seine Schulzeit im Internat.
Gerardo Ambriz Arevalo y Ricardo Bernal Lugo coordinan este libro en el que presentan un conjunto de textos que, desde distintos puntos de vista, muchas veces opuestos entre si, intentan repensar una articulacion posible entre el Estado, el derecho y las nuevas formas de emancipacion que se oponen a la dictadura del capital.
National Wages Policy in War and Peace (1958) examines the thorny issue of inflation prevention, looking at a host of Western economies in the wartime and postwar period.
En tiempos en que la protesta social contra la historica desigualdad en Chile ocupa las primeras planas de los medios periodisticos internacionales, este libro es un excelente recurso para entender las inequidades en dicha sociedad y sistema educativo, pero tambien posibles avenidas para contribuir a una sociedad mas justa y equitativa.
