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Parties And Unions In The New Global Economy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780822958253
Pub Date: 28 Jan 2004
Description:
For much of the twentieth century, unions played a vital role in shaping political regimes and economic development strategies, particularly in Latin America and Europe. However, their influence has waned as political parties with close ties to unions have adopted neoliberal reforms harmful to the interests of workers.What do unions do when confronted with this \u201cloyalty dilemma\u201d?
Public Family, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780822958277
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2003
Description:
Those concerned with investigating the political functions of the family far too often identify only one: the production of \u201cgood democratic citizens.\u201d As a result, public discussion of family law and policy has been confined to a narrow continuum that ignores the family's other, often subversive, political functions.In The Public Family David Herring's goal is to create a new rhetoric that moves beyond the stalemate that often results from the war between advocates of parental rights and those of children's rights.
Agrarian Kentucky Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9780813190525
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2003
Illustrations: illus
Description:
For subsistence farmers in eastern Kentucky, wealthy horse owners in the central Bluegrass, and tobacco growers in Western Kentucky, land was, and continues to be, one of the commonwealth's greatest sources of economic growth. It is also a source of nostalgia for a people devoted to tradition, a characteristic that has significantly influenced Kentucky's culture, sometimes to the detriment of education and development.As timely now as when it was first published, Thomas D.
The Institutes of Roman Law Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 560
ISBN: 9781593330064
Pub Date: 30 Dec 2002
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This is an indispensable reference to Roman Law, with an introductory essay by Erwin Grueber of Balliol College, Oxford. Sohm presents a systematic and historical exposition of Roman private law, introducing a new element into the legal studies of the English-speaking world.
Debating Divorce Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780813118222
Pub Date: 07 Apr 1993
Description:
In 1986 a national opinion poll indicated that over half of Irish voters favored an upcoming referendum to remove the constitutional ban on divorce. Yet, after nine weeks of vigorous debate during which forces on both sides of the issue presented their cases to the public, the amendment was defeated.In Debating Divorce, Michele Dillon uses the divorce referendum debate in Ireland as a base from which to explore the long-standing sociological preoccupation with how societies decide questions of values.