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Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback::296 pages
ISBN10: 0801479932
Imprint: ILR Press
Dimension: 155x 235x 17mm::28g
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He is the co-first author of the Urban Studies paper, "The Role of Social Networks in the Integration of Chinese Rural-Urban Migrants: A Migrant-Resident Tie Perspective", and the Environment and Planning A paper, "Floating Choices: A Theories, models and perspectives - Cheat sheet for field instructors Perspective – A way of perceiving the world flows from a value position. Note: The Modern Social Work Theory. Lyceum Books 1. Systems theories – Those concepts that emphasize reciprocal relationships between Hispanic Workers in Postindustrial Society American Poverty in Comparative Perspective The book addresses the role of technology and other factors in the decline of manufacturing employment and how the trend is crucial for understanding growing inequality and changes in working class family life. This is the second edition of Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: Domestic and International Influences on State Behavior. As in the first edition, this collection of chapters presents a look at foreign policy in comparative perspective focusing on thirteen countries and frames this presentation with theoretical insights on how internal and external factors influence states' foreign The fact of differing inequality trends in the United States and Europe offers an additional perspective on the potential explanations for the American trends. This comparative perspective highlights the role of institutions in producing inequality trends and suggests strategies for potentially productive sociological research on these issues. Comparative advantage is an economic term that refers to an economy's ability to produce goods and services at a lower opportunity cost than that of trade partners. A comparative advantage gives a Ling Chen is Assistant Professor in political economy at Johns Hopkins SAIS. She is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University as an Associate in Research. Before joining SAIS, she was a Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and Rajawali Fellow at the Ash Center of Harvard Kennedy School. My book Writing and the Ancient State: Early China in Comparative Perspective belongs to the second type of comparative study. It is a cross-cultural analysis of the uses to which writing was put early states in China, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Central Mexico, and the Maya region, with the Andean states included for comparative purposes. This book focuses on the cross-linguistic comparison of Chinese with other languages. It contains 16 chapters comparing specific major phenomena in Chinese syntax with corresponding ones in at least one other language, in many cases with other languages of Asia as well as Europe, North America, and Africa. The Taiwan Research Programme was founded in 2003 at the LSE, and since 2006 has taken a unique approach of Taiwan in Comparative Perspective. This contextualises processes of modernisation and globalisation through cross-disciplinary researches of significant issues that use Taiwan as a point of comparison to form a dialogue. Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective also sheds light on the difficult but hitherto largely successful imperatives of reconciling the conflicting demands of encouraging investment and protecting workers, which the highly-adaptive Chinese communist regime has mastered into a political art. 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Even where public Soaring Income Gaps: China in Comparative Perspective Martin King Whyte MARTIN KING WHYTE is the John Zwaanstra Professor of Inter-national Studies and Sociology and Associate of the Fairbank Cen - ter for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He specializes in re - search on grassroots social patterns and trends in China during both The book brings together three major theoretical strands: social policy, in particular the literature on comparative leave policy developments; family and gender studies, in particular the analysis of gendered divisions of work and care and recent shifts in parenting and work-family balance; critical studies of men and masculinities, with a In addressing these questions. The contributors make a contribution to both Chinese studies and comparative studies of industrial organization and the transition from state socialism. Based on extensive research in Chinese archives and focused on the 1950s, the book compares two very different groups of silk workers and their experiences in the revolution. Male silk weavers in Shanghai factories enjoyed close ties to the Communist party-state … Containing interviews from Indian and Chinese oil company executives, government officials, industry officials, former diplomats and scholars and academics from India, China and the UK, this book makes a valuable contribution to existing literature on India, China and the oil industry in West Africa. Reichert, E. (2003). Workplace Mobbing: A New Frontier for the Social Work Profession. Professional Development: The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education, Vol. 5 No. 3 Spring, pp.4-12. Reichert, E. (2003) Viewing Human Rights and Social Work through an International Perspective. The Journal of Intergroup Relations.