Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2007-2008

This 2007-2008 edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean comes 60 years after the first session of ECLAC, when the Executive Secretary of the Commission was mandated by the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the countries attending the session to undertake "the collection, evaluation and dissemination of [...] economic, technological and statistical informati…

Migration in The Southern Balkans: From Ottoman Territory To Globalized Natio…

Migration; History, general; Cities, Countries, Regions; Demography

Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World: Albanian Migrants and Their Childre…

Migration; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Childhood, Adolescence and Society; Sociology, general

Inter-Group Relations and Migrant integration in European Cities: Changing Ne…

Migration; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Political Science

Integration Processes and Policies in Europe: Contexts, Levels and Actors

Migration; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law

integrating Immigrants in Europe: Research-Policy Dialogues

Migration; Knowledge - Discourse; Public Policy

Statistical Yearbook of Latin America and the Caribbean 2010

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9789210210737

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650

Sportfinanzierung - Spannungen zwischen Markt und Staat

On the one hand, sport like any other activity in society is burdened with public taxes, and on the other hand, in comparison to similar activities, is tax-free and even publicly supported. This ambivalence of tax treatment of sport has repeatedly raised questions about the public financing of sport: To what extent are services provided by the public sector justified, and to what extent do spor…

Work, Community, and Power The Experience of Labor in Europe and America, 19…

The first quarter of the twentieth century was perhaps the most dramatic and consequential period for the international working class. Corporate control was consolidated and centralized. The workplace began to be extensively reorganized by Taylorist and later Fordist methods. Revolutions, factory occupations, and new forms of workers' control and industrial democracy followed in the wake of Wor…

Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter : Office Work and Office Workers, 1870-1930

Before 1900, male clerical workers, as apprentice capitalists, performed a wide variety of tasks that helped them learn the business. By 1930, the class position of clerical workers had changed, and autonomous male clerks were transformed into working class females—a "secretarial proletariat." From the time the first female office worker was hired by US Treasurer General Elias Spinner during …