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Labour Contracts and Labour Relations in Early Modern Central Japan
Based on a collection of labour contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labour as they developed in the commercial enterprises of Tokugawa Japan. The urban focus is Kyoto, the cultural capital and smallest of the three great cities of the Tokugawa period, but the data comes from a wider region of commercial and castle towns and rural village…
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Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton
What is it like to be a young Muslim man in post-7/7 Britain, and what impact do wider political factors have on the multifaceted identities of young Muslim men? Drawn from the author’s ethnographic research of British-born Muslim men in the English town of Luton, Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton explores the everyday lives of the young men and, in particular, how their identity as Musli…
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- 978-1-78735-137-0
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Framing the Global Economic downturn : Crisis rhetoric and the politics of re…
The global economic downturn that followed the collapse of major US financial institutions is no doubt the most significant crisis of our times. Its effects on corporate and governmental balance sheets have been devastating, as have been its impacts on the employment and well being of tens of millions of citizens. It continues to pose major challenges to national policymakers and institutions a…
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- 9781921666056
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Discretion and Public Benefit in a Regulatory Agency
This book explores the manner in which a variety of public benefits such as environmental protection and consumer safety have been accommodated through the authorisation process within competition law and policy in Australia. While the regulator’s use of its discretion can be explained as a triumph of practice over theory, this book explores the potential for competition principles to be imbu…
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Dilemmas of China's growth in the Twenty-First Century
Since economic reforms began in 1978, China has been a focal point for observing the effects of market liberalisation. China has not only truly become one of
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Mediale Affektökonomie Emotionen im Reality TV und deren Kommentierung bei …
Wie werden in Reality TV-Formaten ausgehandelte Regeln des emotionalen Ausdrucks und deren Inszenierung auf Facebook bewertet? Welche unterschiedlichen Orientierungen in Bezug auf andere Körper entstehen dabei? Wie werden dadurch Zugehörigkeitsgefühle erzeugt oder Ausschlüsse vorgenommen? Mit dem Konzept der medialen Affektökonomie beschreibt Claudia Töpper, wie Emotionen in digitalen ver…
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- 9783839457023
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Developing Asian Bondmarkets
The absence of vibrant bondmarkets in East Asia was a significant contributor to the 1997–98 financial crisis. Ever since, the development of local bondmarkets has been a major objective of financial reforms in many East Asian economies. This effort has been frustrated by the inability to reach a consensus on whether Asian bondmarkets are truly needed in East Asia, whether they can be made vi…
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- 9781925021400
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Mediação & midiatização
Este livro aborda os conceitos de Mediação e Midiatização, levando em consideração suas limitações, potencialidades, articulações e contribuições para as análises dos processos comunicacionais contemporâneos. Divide-se em duas partes: Mediação e midiatização: conexões epistemológicas, que discute aportes teórico-metodológicos e conceitos-chave da área, e Percursos investi…
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The Media Welfare State Nordic Media in the Digital Era
The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era comprehensively addresses the central dynamics of the digitalization of the media industry in the Nordic countries—Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland—and the ways media organizations there are transforming to address the new digital environment. Taking a comparative approach, the authors provide an overview of media institu…
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Media, Technology, and Society Theories of Media Evolution
In Media, Technology, and Society , some of the most prominent figures in media studies explore the issue of media evolution. Focusing on a variety of compelling examples in media history, ranging from the telephone to the television, the radio to the Internet, these essays collectively address a series of notoriously vexing questions about the nature of technological change. Is it possible to …
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