Time is more important than money The time we have to care for one another is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time. In this volume, experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family policy.
Time is more important than money The time we have to care for one another is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more e...
The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time. In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family policy. The contributors:
* show how social institutions limit the choices that individuals can make about how to divide their time between paid and unpaid work * challenge conventional surveys that offer simplistic measures of time spent in...
The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet ...
Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender analysis to examine the relationship between international trade and gender relations.
The book brings together fourteen contributions from a variety of economic perspectives, including structuralist, institutionalist, neoclassical and Post-Keynesian by a range of authors including Lourdes Benera, William Darity, Marzia Fontana and Mariama Williams to demonstrate what feminist economics contribution to the analysis of...
Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender ana...
Having recently authored one of the most significant books, Money, Myths and Change, in this exciting area of economics, Lee Badgett has now teamed up with Jeff Frank and a collection of international contributors to provide an analysis of sexual orientation discrimination on an international scale.
Discrimination based on sexual orientation continues to fuel collective action, policy debates and academic scrutiny in many countries. For some time, sociologists and psychologists have studied sexual orientation discrimination in institutions and explored prejudices...
Having recently authored one of the most significant books, Money, Myths and Change, in this exciting area of economics, Lee Badge...
Having recently authored one of the most significant books, Money, Myths and Change, in this exciting area of economics, Lee Badgett has now teamed up with Jeff Frank and a collection of international contributors to provide an analysis of sexual orientation discrimination on an international scale.
Discrimination based on sexual orientation continues to fuel collective action, policy debates and academic scrutiny in many countries. For some time, sociologists and psychologists have studied sexual orientation discrimination in institutions and explored prejudices...
Having recently authored one of the most significant books, Money, Myths and Change, in this exciting area of economics, Lee Badge...
Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender analysis to examine the relationship between international trade and gender relations.
The book brings together fourteen contributions from a variety of economic perspectives, including structuralist, institutionalist, neoclassical and Post-Keynesian by a range of authors including Lourdes Benera, William Darity, Marzia Fontana and Mariama Williams to demonstrate what feminist economics contribution to the analysis of...
Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender ana...
Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this book provides a study of the economics of prostitution rather than focusing on the sociological and cultural themes. Using economic tools of analysis, internationally based editors have put together a theoretically informed volume that explores the supply and demand of prostitution.
Prostitution is a globalized industry involving millions of workers and it is characterized by a high degree of inequality in working conditions (ranging from slavery to self-managed and legalized unionized employment), by different sub-markets and fully...
Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this book provides a study of the economics of prostitution rather than focusing on the sociological and cul...
Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this book provides an analytical economic study of the supply and demand of prostitution rather than focusing on the sociological and cultural themes.
Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this book provides an analytical economic study of the supply and demand of prostitution rather than fo...
This book takes a look beneath the surface of this "miracle growth," to explore the political economy of this process. Beyond the superficial macroeconomics of high growth rates, increasing GDP per capita and high trade volume, the book looks at what is happening to the very socioeconomic and political fabric of society; particularly in terms of the transformation of gender relations. Chen's study explores:
how the gender impacts of government policies shape the unequal realities of women,
how women have carried on in production and social...
This book takes a look beneath the surface of this "miracle growth," to explore the political economy of this process. Beyond the superficial macro...
Precarious employment presents a challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies. There is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to common social inequalities. This collection yields ways of understanding the forces driving labour market insecurity.
Precarious employment presents a challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies. There is wi...
