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Housework and domestic service have become popular topics within the scholarly community. She systematically examines the psychology and nature of domestic work, union rejection of domestic laborers, employers' opposition to organization, and the frequent disagreements among the domestics themselves.

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An analysis of the complex economic relationship between the United States and Latin America during the 1980s and into the 1990s. The essays demonstrate how the latent tensions among sometimes conflicting US policy goals have been exacerbated by the economic crises of Latin America in the 1980s.

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Examines the "quiet revolution" unfolding in Latin America and its likely consequences for US trade and investment with and within the region, where leaders are extricating their economies from debt-laden stagnation by pursuing far-reaching stabilisation and liberalisation reform programmes.

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This volume, which grew out of a study conducted by the East-West Center, analyzes the friction in telecommunications trade between the United States and Japan and the consequent imposition of the Super 301 clause on Japan.

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Examines business opportunities in the eight sectors with the highest potential returns on private investment in Africa - the same sectors that will foster economic growth and diversification, job creation, and improved welfare. The book's analysis is based on case studies that identify specific opportunities for investment and growth.

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Japan today is caught up in chronic economic crisis, its financial system wracked by record-breaking bankruptcies and its companies hobbled by bad balance sheets, overproduction, and weak consumer demand.

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Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations uses the tools of economics, political science, and law to explain how top-down institutions have shackled reservation economies and why bottom-up institutions are necessary to unlock the human, physical, and natural capital of Native Americans.

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Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations uses the tools of economics, political science, and law to explain how top-down institutions have shackled reservation economies and why bottom-up institutions are necessary to unlock the human, physical, and natural capital of Native Americans.

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Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus offers the first criminological account of the relationship between international development, crime and security in nearly thirty-five years.

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Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. This book takes a comparative look at the development of commercial banking systems over the years in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia.

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Urban Illusions is the best first-hand account I know of the struggle to solve the employment problem in American cities.

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Claiming that urban transportation planning is more sophisticated, costly, and complex than its highway and transit planning predecessors, the book demonstrates how urban transportation planning evolved in response to changes in such factors as environment, energy, development patterns, intergovernmental coordination, and federal transit programs.

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The past several years have brought economic, commercial, and investment revolution to China where a consumer society is beginning to emerge.

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Few people realize that one of the nation's largest health programs runs through the tax system. Reformers of all stripes propose to modify current tax rules as part of larger programs to increase coverage and control costs.

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Dealing with economic sociology, this title introduces the theory and practical tools needed to analyze markets for singularities. It shows that because of the uncertainty and the subjective valuation of singularities, the markets related to movies, music, and fine wine are equipped with the 'judgment devices' such as brands, critics and rankings.

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Corporate governance may be guided in the pursuit of particular interests by many influences, including law, politics, capital and labour and other pressure groups. How these competing pressures balance out varies enormously from state to state. This title offers a contribution to these complex issues.

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Computers mediate between individuals by providing channels of communication in the form of messaging systems; they act as brokers in matching buyers and sellers, employees and employers, resources and work processes, and so on. The social significance of computers as mediators and brokers has treme

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This book examines the impact of "globalisation" on the American economy. Although temporarily muted by the "exceptional" state of America's financial markets in recent years, the increased integration of the American economy with that of the rest of the world has been controversial and a source of concern.