Offering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind it Platforms are everywhere. From social media to chat, streaming, credit cards, and even bookstores, it seems like almost everything can be described as a platform. In The Platform Economy, Marc Steinberg argues that the “platformization” of capitalism has transformed everything, and it is imperative that we have a historically precise, robust understanding of this widespread concept. Taking Japan as t...
The Psychological Experience of Homelessness
by Eleanor O'Leary, Kathleen O'Sullivan, David O'Sullivan, and Jonathan Gallagher
The Tangled Cedaring Sublime & Its Knotting Into Nothing of Time
by Richard William Kirkpatrick-Thorne
Poverty Alleviation Through Women's Empowerment - Dream to Reality
by Farzana Raja
Hanging by a Thread (Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies)
The textile industry was one of the first manufacturing activities to become organized globally, as mechanized production in Europe used cotton from the various colonies. Africa, the least developed of the world\u2019s major regions, is now increasingly engaged in the production of this crop for the global market, and debates about the pros and cons of this trend have intensified. Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa illuminates the connections between Africa and the...
Study with reference to rubber plantation workers.
Hard Times (A Shelter campaign report)
by Nigel Pollitt, Alan Booth, and Helen Kay
For nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work. Yet recently local governments have moved away from manufacturing and toward urban expansion and construction as a development strategy. As a result, at least 88 million rural people to date have lost rights to village land. In Beneath the China Boom, Julia Chuang follows the traj...
No Home-alone? (SCA (Education) & University of Warwick Monograph S.)
by Elizabeth Findlay
Human Development Report 2006 (Human Development Report)
In the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking the myth that the crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem.
Cities with Slums: From Informal Settlement Eradication to a Right to the City in Africa
by Marie Huchzermeyer
Taking Forward the Government Economic Strategy
Life in Low Income Families in Scotland
by John H. McKendrick, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Kathryn Backett-Milburn, and Scottish Executive,Social Research
Street Children in Kenya
by Philip L Kilbride, Enos Njeru, and Collette A Suda
As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization, economic stressors take a great toll on children. Kenya, like some other nations in Africa and around the globe, has witnessed a rapid rise in street children. The street children in Nairobi come from single parent families which are mostly headed by women. Another group are AIDS orphans. This study documents how street children in Nairobi follow survival strategies including (for boys) collecting garbag...