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Introduction: Structures of Poverty -- Rise: Vagrancy, Poverty, and the Makings of an Order -- Autonomy: Compelling "Tramps" to Jobs and Homes -- Virtue: Trading in Sex and Wages -- Isolation: Quarantine and the Legacy of Migration -- Fall: Gangster "Tramps," Contracting Women, and the "New Negro" -- Epilogue: The New Deal's Social Origins.

Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. No Alternatives? -- Chapter 2. Failed Promises and the Logic of Necessity -- Chapter 3. Democracy in America -- Chapter 4. Europe Disunited -- Chapter 5. The Beginning of History -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

This open access book explores the most recent trends in the EU in terms of development, progress, and performance. Ten years after the 2008 economic crisis, and amidst a digital revolution that is intensifying the development race, the European Union, and especially Central and Eastern Europe, are ardently searching for their development priorities. Against this background, by relying on a cross-national perspective, the authors reflect upon the developmental challenges of the moment, such as sustainable development, reducing inequality, ensuring social cohesion, and driving the digital revolution. They particularly focus on the relation between the less-developed Eastern part of the EU and its more developed Western counterpart, and discuss the consequences of this development gap in detail. Lastly, the book presents a range of case studies from different areas of governance, such as economy and commerce, health services, education, migration and public opinion in order to investigate the trends most likely to impact the European Union's medium and long-term development.

In der globalisierten Welt im Umbruch zeigt die Europäische Union Ermüdungserscheinungen. Ökonomische Konflikte und Identitätskrisen zehren an ihrem Selbstverständnis. Die Leitidee des Staatenverbundes als »einer immer engeren Union der Völker Europas« scheint aus der Zeit gefallen, der Rückzug ins Nationale nicht zukunftsfähig. Wenn das Europäische Einigungsprojekt noch Chancen haben soll, muss es neu begründet werden. »Europa erneuern!« soll heißen, eine Vision für das 21. Jahrhundert zu entwickeln, welche euro-skeptische Mythen ebenso wie Wunschbilder entzaubert und Europas Potentiale stärkt. Ulrike Liebert zeigt: Ein Upgrade der Demokratie in der EU ist nötig und die innovative Weiterentwicklung der Konventsmethode möglich, wenn das Leitbild einer transnationalen Europäischen Republik realisiert werden soll.

The United States depends on foreign sources for many strategic and essential minerals. Secure supplies of such minerals are crucial to the nation's economic and military well-being, but federal policies with regard to these minerals have continued to vacillate. This volume considers the minerals availability issue from a number of perspectives. In

This brilliant analysis, first published in 1923, predicted the development of shop floor bargaining and explains how attitudes, doubts and fears have remained relatively fixed yet open to various pressures. Most of all, it shows why employers extended recognition to work place unionism in the crucial years of 1917-19. This title will be of interest to students and scholars of labour history.

This book explores — through extensive fieldwork — the link between development and security, critical to India's Northeast, within the context of the cross-border space it shares with China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal. For a long-term sustainable solution to serious issues that include illegal migration and militancy, it proposes forging economic initiatives/collaborations and addressing connectivity problems. @contents: 1. Security and Development: Understanding the Relationship 2. 'China Factor' and India's Frontier 3. 'Myanmar Situation' and India's Northeast 4. 'Bangladesh's Transition' and India's Borderland 5. 'Nepal Issue' and India East and Northeast 6. 'Peaceful Bhutan' and Northeast India's Hope.

This book provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the integration of environmental policies into US free trade agreements. The work focuses on the evolution of the design of environmental policies and analyzes their effectiveness. Starting with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) leading to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the book examines the history of policy integration. In doing so, it provides an overview of the major trade-related environmental policies and presents empirical research on their effectiveness, a discussion of the continued demand for policy integration in light of the effectiveness, and recommendations for addressing shortcomings. The main objective of the book is to inform the ongoing policy debate over integration of environmental policies into trade agreements. The current renegotiation of NAFTA provides an opportune time for undertaking this critical review of trade-related environmental policies. As our understanding and knowledge of the environmental policies associated with US trade agreements, in particular for NAFTA, has grown significantly over the past twenty-five years, this book provides a timely and critical update for this policy debate.Students and scholars of environmental law, trade and economics, and specifically US trade, environmental policy and law will find this book of great interest.

The authors of this book assess the prospects for production of oil and gas from U.S. domestic reserves and resources to the year 2000, using different scenarios with varying assumptions about numbers of new discoveries, size of fields, and rates of recovery. Oil production, claim the authors, will decline by at least 17 percent by the end of the c

2.2 The Development of IR Studies in the USSR after World War II2.2.1 Development of Organizational Forms of Studying International Relations; 2.2.2 Shifts in Theoretical Foundations and IR Issues; 2.2.3 The Main Characteristics of Soviet Research in the Field of International Relations; Chapter 3 The Establishment of IR Studies in Contemporary Russia; 3.1 Trends in Russian IR Studies in the Late 1980s; 3.1.1 The "New Political Thinking" and Its Impact on International Relations; 3.1.2 A Change in the Content of International Studies in the Years of Perestroika.

"An overheard plot to do away with an unwanted son-in-law begins this mesmerizing and astonishing journey into the Aztec underworld - a world of magical dreams and mysterious healing, shadowed by a deadly justice." "Aided by two local curanderos, or healers, American anthropologist Timothy Knab embarks on a spellbinding adventure of sacred Atzec rituals and mystical dream journeys into Talocan, the underworld of gods and lost souls. Along the way, he begins to understand the Aztec belief system and the art of healing, as well as the dark past of San Martin - infamous throughout Mexico for its brujos, or witches, and a mysterious "War of Witches" fifty years earlier that may never have ended." "Capturing time and place as surely as a jeweler sets a stone, Timothy Knab chronicles his spiritual immersion into the contemporary Aztec culture and, ultimately, his remarkable transformation into an authentic curandero."--Jacket.

Gegenstand der Soziologie der Europäischen Integration sind ihre gesellschaftlichen Grundlagen und deren Verhältnis zur politischen Integration. Die vorliegende Einführung analysiert europäische Gemeinsamkeiten und gegenläufige Entwicklungen und untersucht das Wechselverhältnis zwischen der Lebenswirklichkeit und den Verhaltensorientierungen der Bevölkerungen einerseits und der europäischen Institutionenbildung andererseits. Zu drei Fragen vereinfacht: Was ist "europäisch" an Europa? Kommt es zu einer "Europäisierung" der Gesellschaften Europas? Bringt der europäische Herrschaftsverband den "europäischen" Bürger hervor? Diese drei zentralen Problemfelder eröffnen einen Blick auf längerfristige europäische Entwicklungen, der in den üblichen politischen und wirtschaftlichen Abhandlungen zu kurz kommt. Zugleich werden Webfehler sichtbar, die zu den aktuellen Konflikten in der Eurozone und der Flüchtlingspolitik beigetragen haben. Das Buch hilft, das komplizierte Gemengenlage "Europa" besser zu verstehen, zeigt aber auch die gesellschaftlichen Grenzen des politischen Zusammenwachsens auf. Der Inhalt Einleitung: Fragestellungen einer Soziologie der Europäischen Integration • Mythos und Geschichte • Die EU - das real existierende Europa • Das Europäische Sozialmodell - Vergangen vor seiner Zeit? • Auf dem Weg zu einem einheitlichen Bildungsraum? • Die Europäisierung der parteipolitischen Konfliktlinien • Bürger und Eliten - ungedeckte Hoffnungen, vermeidbare Enttäuschungen • Die Europäische Union als Krisengemeinschaft • Die gesellschaftlichen Grenzen Europas und die Grenzen der Union Der Autor Dr. Stefan Immerfall ist Professor für Soziologie an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd