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Given the cyclical nature of economic crises, this paper aims to demonstrate the importance of employment as a means of promoting the expansion of individual capabilities. It analyzes the Brazilian labor market and its characteristics, eliciting the relevance of addressing the quality of work, especially about its precarity, focusing in reducing inequalities and social exclusion. The paper also outlines about public policies applied by the Brazilian government and points out some alternatives for the country's labor market based on the expansion of personal freedoms. ; Dado el carácter cíclico de las crisis económicas, este artículo pretende demostrar la importancia del empleo como medio para promover la expansión de las capacidades individuales. Analiza el mercado laboral brasileño y sus características, destacando la relevancia de abordar la calidad del trabajo, especialmente sobre su precariedad, centrándose en la reducción de desigualdades y de exclusión social. El trabajo también describe y cuestiona las políticas públicas aplicadas por el gobierno brasileño y señala algunas alternativas para el mercado laboral del país, basadas en la expansión de las libertades personales.

"Front Cover" -- "Social Networks in China" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "About the authors" -- "Preface" -- "Chapter 1: History and development" -- "1.1 Pre-2004: Exploration in the early stage" -- "1.1.1 Instant messengers" -- "1.1.1.1 ICQ" -- "1.1.1.2 QQ: Initial development" -- "1.1.1.3 MSN Messenger" -- "1.1.2 Initial Chinese network community" -- "1.1.3 ChinaRen Alumni: China's earliest social network model" -- "1.2 2004–11: The blossoming of social networks" -- "1.2.1 Blogs" -- "1.2.2 IM + Blogs bundle" -- "1.2.2.1 MSN Messenger and MSN space" -- "1.2.2.2 QQ and Qzone" -- "1.2.3 SNS models: Kaixin and RenRen" -- "1.2.3.1 Brief history" -- "1.2.3.2 SNS model comparisons" -- "1.2.3.3 Veggie-stealing social game" -- "1.2.4 Impact of mobile internet and smartphones" -- "1.2.4.1 Emergence of micro blogs: Weibo" -- "Micro blogs versus blogs" -- "1.2.4.2 Tencent's mobile innovation" -- "1.3 2011 to present: Current status" -- "1.3.1 Competition and elimination" -- "1.3.1.1 Downfall of traditional SNS: Kaixin and RenRen" -- "1.3.1.2 Dominance of Sina Weibo in micro blog services" -- "1.3.1.3 Rise of WeChat" -- "1.3.2 Three current social network giants" -- "Chapter 2: WeChat" -- "2.1 The miraculous growth" -- "2.2 Substitution for traditional mobile telecom services" -- "2.3 Design highlights" -- "2.3.1 Minimalism design" -- "2.3.2 Digital ID: QR code" -- "2.3.3 Linking contacts" -- "2.3.4 WeChat Shake" -- "2.3.5 Moments: Friends circle" -- "2.3.5.1 Emphasised image publishing" -- "2.3.5.2 Privacy settings" -- "2.3.5.3 Spam control" -- "2.3.6 World-leading IM functions" -- "2.3.6.1 Easy-to-use voice messaging" -- "2.3.6.2 Simple switch between video and voice call" -- "2.3.6.3 Ad hoc style group chat" -- "2.3.6.4 Customisable emojis" -- "2.4 Official accounts" -- "2.4.1 Features" -- "2.4.2 Three types

Digital piracy cultures and peer-to-peer technologies combined to spark transformations in audio-visual distribution between the late 1990s and the mid-2000s. Digital piracy also inspired the creation of a global anti-piracy law and policy regime, and counter-movements such as the Swedish and German Pirate Parties. These trends provide starting points for a wide-ranging debate about the prospects for deep and lasting changes in social life enabled by piratical technology practices. This edited volume brings together contemporary scholarship in communication and media studies, addressing piracy as a recombinant feature of popular communication, technological innovation, and communication law and policy. An international collection of contributors highlights key debates about piracy, popular communication, and social change, and provides a lasting resource for global media studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Popular Communication

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures and v -- Note on the Contributor -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I: Preliminaries -- 1 Approaches to Social Policy: From Social Policy, to Comparative Social Policy to Global Social Policy -- Introduction -- What do we mean by social policy? -- The implications of the issues about defining social policy for global social policy -- The relevance of the development of comparative social policy -- From comparative social policy to global social policy -- The rest of the book -- 2 Social Policy in the Global Age -- Introduction -- From internationalisation to globalisation -- Challenges of economic globalisation in the context of a divided world -- From countries to economic globalisation: a quick overview of neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism: a balance sheet -- Who says inequality is a problem? -- Final considerations -- Part II: Spheres of Action in Global Social Policy -- 3 The Market, Its Main Tenets and Its Global Guardians -- Introduction -- International trade and welfare -- The rise of the transnational corporation (TNC) -- The market, its dominant ideology and our well-being -- 4 The Power of the State and International Organisations -- Introduction -- The United Nations and its agencies -- Global economic management organisations: guardians of the global marketplace? -- Conclusions: the influence of international organisations -- 5 Global Civil Society: New Forms of Participation and Spaces for Change? -- Introduction -- Civil society: the complex history of a concept -- Globalisation and new actors in social policy -- What role for global civil society in social policy? A story of (at least) three answers -- Global social movements advance the policy agenda -- Part III: Issues in Global Social Policy -- 6 Global Poverty -- Introduction.

As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life. Two internationally renowned experts in ageing look beyond longstanding factors like class, gender and ethnicity to explore new social divisions, including contrasting states of physical fitness and mental health. They show how differences in health and frailty are creating fresh inequalities in later life, with significant implications for the future of our ageing societies. This accessible overview of social divisions is essential reading for those interested in the sociology of ageing and its differences, diversities and inequalities.