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Afl-Cio's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?
ISBN: 9780739135020 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and life for themselves and all others. In its most developed forms, this extends not only to the worker next to you, but to working people all around the world, wherever they might be. Some of the foremost proponents of these principles in the United States since the 1880s has been the American Federation of Labor (AFL), then later the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and since their merger in 1955, the AFL-CIO.
The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and ...
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238,85 zł |
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Burmese Refugees: Letters from the Thai-Burma Border
ISBN: 9780615471075 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Burmese Refugees: Letters from the Thai-Burma Border The misrule of the Burmese military junta continues to be the main catalyst of refugees in Southeast Asia today. In this collection of letters, learn about the true stories of people who have fled from that regime. All of the accounts are written by the refugees themselves and explain how they became asylum seekers, what life is like in the camps, and what they envision for their future. These stories document persons from the 8888 generation, the 2007 Saffron Revolution, and various ethnic struggles. This book contains the narratives of...
Burmese Refugees: Letters from the Thai-Burma Border The misrule of the Burmese military junta continues to be the main catalyst of refugees in Southe...
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161,84 zł |
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The Cost of Inaction: Case Studies from Rwanda and Angola
ISBN: 9780674065581 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is motivated by the idea that the cost of inaction can be much greater than the cost of action. Inaction can lead to serious negative consequences for individuals, the economy, and society. The consequences of a failure to reduce extreme poverty, for example, typically include malnutrition, preventable morbidity, premature mortality, incomplete basic education, and other human and social development costs. In this volume, the authors seek to clarify exactly what is meant by cost of inaction. They develop a methodology to account for the consequences and estimate the costs of a...
This book is motivated by the idea that the cost of inaction can be much greater than the cost of action. Inaction can lead to serious negative conseq...
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92,01 zł |
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Living Through Crises: How the Food, Fuel, and Financial Shocks Affect the Poor
ISBN: 9780821389409 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis monitoring initiatives carried out by IDS and the World Bank. As such, this is not a book about the causes of the crisis or how to prevent future crises. Instead, this book is about how people lived through the severe economic turmoil of recent years, how they were affected, and what they did to cope,...
What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and...
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252,96 zł |
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Life, Fish and Mangroves: Resource Governance in Coastal Cambodia
ISBN: 9780776607726 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Life, Fish and Mangroves, Melissa Marschke explores the potential of resource governance, offering a case study of resource-dependent village life. Following six households and one village-based institution in coastal Cambodia over a twelve-year period, Marschke reveals the opportunities and constraints facing villagers and illustrates why local resource management practices remain delicate, even with a sustained effort. She highlights how government and business interests in community-based management and resource exploitation combine to produce a complex, highly uncertain dynamic....
In Life, Fish and Mangroves, Melissa Marschke explores the potential of resource governance, offering a case study of resource-dependent villag...
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97,66 zł |
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Pakistan's development challenges: Federalism, Security and Governance
ISBN: 9781452802558 / Angielski / Miękka / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book explores the development challenges faced by Pakistan in the context of rising problems in the area of federal governance and extra ordinary security issues in the wake of Al-Qaida and Taliban led terrorism and its difficulties with neighboring India.Frequent military coups often supported by the U.S. have played havoc with Pakistan's social fabric and its political development.The book offers detailed analysis of the issues and ventures with solutions and prescriptions.
The book explores the development challenges faced by Pakistan in the context of rising problems in the area of federal governance and extra ordinary ...
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92,61 zł |
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Belize Da Speak: An Oral History of Independence
ISBN: 9781466451292 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of interviews with countrymen depicts the thoughts, emotions, and hopes of Belizeans during the time of its independence from Great Britain.
A collection of interviews with countrymen depicts the thoughts, emotions, and hopes of Belizeans during the time of its independence from Great Brita...
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92,61 zł |
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Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change
ISBN: 9781557536273 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book re-presents voices of resistance from across the globe to document the communicative processes, practices, and frameworks through which neoliberal global policies are currently being defied. Based on examples, case studies, and ethnographic reports, Voices of Resistance serves as a space for engaging various perspectives from the global margins in dialogue. The emphasis of the book is on the core idea that creating spaces for listening to voices of resistance fosters openings for the politics of social change"interweaving the stories of the local, the national, and the global. The...
This book re-presents voices of resistance from across the globe to document the communicative processes, practices, and frameworks through which neol...
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101,21 zł |
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Provocations for Development
ISBN: 9781853397332 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do we use obscure words to impress our colleagues - or fashionable ones to win research proposals? How do poor people define their poverty? How can we use aid budgets most effectively? Are many of our actions against poverty simple, direct... and wrong?
Provocations for Development is an entertaining and unsettling collection of writings that questions concepts, conventions and practices in development. It is made up of short and accessible writings by Robert Chambers, many from the past ten years and some from earlier, reflecting on the evolution of concepts like... Do we use obscure words to impress our colleagues - or fashionable ones to win research proposals? How do poor people define their poverty? How can we...
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114,44 zł |
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The Future of Public Water Governance: Has Water Privatization Peaked?
ISBN: 9780415713139 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The privatization of water supply and wastewater systems, together with institutional restructuring of governance through decentralization and the penetration of global firms in local and regional markets have been promoted as solutions to increase economic efficiency and achieve universal water supply and sanitation coverage. Yet a significant share of service provision and water resources development remains the responsibility of public authorities. The chapters in this book with case evidence from Argentina, Chile, France, the USA, and other countries address critical questions that... The privatization of water supply and wastewater systems, together with institutional restructuring of governance through decentralization and the ... |
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696,20 zł |
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Seeds for Growth. Financing Smallholder Farming in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9781920409678 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poverty and hunger continue to be the biggest challenges in Africa, yet eight years into the Maputo Protocol, in which governments pledged to allocate 10 per cent of their national budgets to agriculture, this sector remains seriously underfunded. Seeds for Growth: Financing smallholder farming in southern Africa explores how governance and political decision making about the allocation of resources could transform the smallholder agricultural landscape in southern Africa. It affirms the role smallholder agriculture can play in the pursuit of social and economic justice. The authors take a...
Poverty and hunger continue to be the biggest challenges in Africa, yet eight years into the Maputo Protocol, in which governments pledged to allocate...
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233,92 zł |
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Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis
ISBN: 9780198794240 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism? Who owns what in it? Who has the power to influence its shape and changes in it over time? What does it mean to be a precarious and informal worker in the private minibuses that provide public transport in Dar es Salaam? These are the main questions that inform this in-depth case study of Dar es Salaam's public transport system over more than forty years. The growth of cities and informal economies are two central manifestations of globalization in the developing world. Taken for a Ride addresses both, drawing...
How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism? Who owns what in it? Who has the power to influence its shape and changes in it...
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387,38 zł |
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The Exodus Is Not Over: Migrations from the Ruptured Homelands of Northeast India
ISBN: 9789386338136 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economic deprivation, insurgencies and deadly ethnic clashes have driven thousands of impoverished men and women from the Northeastern region of India to seek a better life in the towns and cities of mainland India and further abroad. Some find themselves working amidst the unimaginable opulence of five-star hotels, casinos and cruises. However, for many, their jobs in Delhi, Bengaluru, Goa and other metropoles make them targets of racism, sexual harassment and class exploitation. In response, communities of migrants discover ways of reproducing their cultures in alien soil,... Economic deprivation, insurgencies and deadly ethnic clashes have driven thousands of impoverished men and women from the Northeastern region of In... |
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92,57 zł |
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Re-thinking Development in Africa. An Oral History Approach from Botoku, Rural Ghana
ISBN: 9789956726509 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this thought provoking book, Komla Tsey argues that if governments, NGOs, development donor agencies and researchers are serious about development in Africa, they need to get down to ground level, both metaphorically and literally. They must search deep into Africas own rich oral traditions by creating space and opportunity for ordinary Africans, whose voices have so far been conspicuously absent in the development discourse, to tell and share their own stories of development. Story-sharing as research methodology acts as a mirror, reflecting the participants self-evaluation of where they...
In this thought provoking book, Komla Tsey argues that if governments, NGOs, development donor agencies and researchers are serious about development ...
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233,92 zł |
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Challenging the Rulers. A Leadership Model for Good Governance
ISBN: 9789966258144 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging The Rulers: A Leadership Model for Good Governance brings to the fore the issue of leadership in developing countries like Kenya. Citing specific examples, it singles out bad leadership as the cause of stagnation and underdevelopment in Africa. This book advocates for a serious discourse on leadership as the most critical factor in a national quest for good governance and prosperity. Unlike other writers who bemoan the state of affairs in Africa without offering alternatives, the authors propose a leadership model that can ensure good governance. This is based on the premise that...
Challenging The Rulers: A Leadership Model for Good Governance brings to the fore the issue of leadership in developing countries like Kenya. Citing s...
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399,34 zł |
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Disease Prevention Through Vector Control: Guidelines for Relief Organizations
ISBN: 9780855983062 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the years, Oxfam has been involved in a wide variety of health-related projects. The Practical Health Guides draw on this experience to put forward ideas on best practice in the provision of health care and services in developing countries The number of refugees and displaced persons has increased greatly in recent years. At least 80 per cent of them are living in tropical or semi-tropical countries where vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever and sleeping sickness are common and cause widespread sickness and death in the crowded conditions of refugee camps. This work is...
Over the years, Oxfam has been involved in a wide variety of health-related projects. The Practical Health Guides draw on this experience to put forwa...
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114,44 zł |
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Women and Food Security: The Experience of the Sadcc Countries
ISBN: 9781853391095 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consists of papers on women's access to, and use of, improved food
technologies in all areas, and addresses such factors as access to credit and training, involvement in technology and design, infrastructure and markets, and the policy environment. The experiences described have wide application outside Southern Africa. Consists of papers on women's access to, and use of, improved food
technologies in all areas, and addresses such factors as access to credit and ... |
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176,18 zł |
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Understanding Natural Fibre Concrete: Its Application as a Building Material
ISBN: 9780946688777 / Angielski / Miękka / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A technical rationale of how and why natural fibres reinforce cementconcrete, with chapters on the strength properties, durability, manufacture and installation of natural fibre concrete products. fibre-cement, cement, concrete.
A technical rationale of how and why natural fibres reinforce cementconcrete, with chapters on the strength properties, durability, manufacture and in...
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114,44 zł |
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Standards and Specifications for Local Building Materials: Report of the Arso/Csc/Unchs Workshop, Nairobi, 16-24 March 15/12/1987
ISBN: 9780946688791 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Report on the deliberations from a regional workshop on standards and specifications for local building materials, dealing with regional co-operation, methodologies for establishing standards and procedures and quality control.
Report on the deliberations from a regional workshop on standards and specifications for local building materials, dealing with regional co-operation,...
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87,98 zł |
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Spinning: A Handbook
ISBN: 9781853390357 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The basic principles of spinning are described by the text and line drawings, and are supplemented by descriptions of methods of testing spun yarn quality; different types of small-scale spinning machines; and how to plan (Published in the Small-scale Textiles series).
The basic principles of spinning are described by the text and line drawings, and are supplemented by descriptions of methods of testing spun yarn qua...
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132,08 zł |
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