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Wages for Caring examines policies and programs of compensation for family caregivers of the disabled elderly from a broad analytical perspective, weighing current policies of home care services against principles of access, equity, quality, and funding of long-term care.

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In this collection of essays, social and economic historians consider the rise of capitalism in the early American republic and demonstrate the centrality of common men and women as artisans, laborers, planters, and farmers in the dramatic transitions of the period.

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A study of the impact of spiralling wage demands in a cotton factory in Ghent during the 19th century and the efforts of management to reduce the cost through investment in new technology and stricter employment policies. The workers' responses to wage cutting is also considered.

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An introduction to the company, Wal-Mart, this book aims to mark an effort to dissect its business operations, its social effects, and its role in the US and world economy. It examines such topics as the giant retailer's managerial culture, revolutionary use of technological innovation, and controversial pay and promotional practices.

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This unprecedented book provides a comprehensive examination of the issue of protecting journalists in conflict situations from both a practical and humanitarian law perspective.

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Called the "King of Correspondents" Henry W Nevinson (1856-1941) captured the political zeitgeist of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing on Nevinson's private diaries which span nearly 50 years, this work captures the story of a figure whose perspectives illuminate many of the conflicts which resonate in an uncertain society.

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Aims to debunk the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France. This book shows that Britain did not transform smoothly from a mercantilist state in the 18th century to a bastion of free trade in the late 19th.

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Economics is imbued with individualistic values that result in an economy marked by extreme inequality that in turn restricts social mobility and further marginalizes the poor. Catholic social thought provides the moral values required to help make economics capable of building an economy that serves all, rich and poor alike.

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Water Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environment. The idea that an all-powerful state should, or could, care for the physical liquid environs of the world is shown to be incorrect and immoral.

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Water Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environment. The idea that an all-powerful state should, or could, care for the physical liquid environs of the world is shown to be incorrect and immoral.

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Increasing world demands for water call for new institutions and rules to minimize economic and political conflicts. Practitioners, students, and scholars will find this work a valuable resource in water policy, environmental policy, resource economics, and civil engineering.

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Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism is an important intervention into social reproduction theory and eco-socialist debates. It provides a timely analysis of the role of expropriation in the current global water crisis and makes a persuasive argument for understanding class as an emergent process constituted through struggle.

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Explains the U.S. growth slowdown as a natural consequence of economic maturity.

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Read the 9th Edition of The Venterra Experience, WOW Matters book. Learn about Venterra's Culture by reading feedback from our residents, ways we WOW our employees through our WOWEE program and stories of great customer experience through WOW Matters

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"Are the Japanese faceless clones who march in lockstep to the drums beaten by big business and the bureaucrats of MITI, Japan's miracle-working ministry of international trade and industry Can Japane"

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In Were All in This Together, Mike Robbins dives deep into the ways great businesses build trust, collaborate and operate at their peak level. As an expert in teamwork, leadership and emotional intelligence, Mike draws on more than 20 years of experience working with top companies like Google and Microsoft.

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There exist eight reliable ways to increase poverty and the United States is now pursuing seven of them, according to Lebergott. His provocative examination of income and wealth in this country reveals the impossibility of ending poverty permanently without changing American capitalism beyond recognition. Originally published in 1976. The Princet