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"Food and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam Smith to Mary Douglas, major thinkers have used key concepts like identity, exchange, culture, and class to explain the modern food system. Food, Politics, and Society offers a historical and sociological survey of how these various ideas, and the practices that accompany them, have shaped our understanding and organization of the production, processing, preparation, serving, and consumption of food and drink in modern societies. Divided into twelve chapters and drawing on a wide range of historical and empirical illustrations, this book provides a concise, informed, and accessible survey of the interaction between social theory and food and drink. It is perfect for courses in a wide range of disciplines"--Provided by publisher

Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women and men make their own racially oriented choices in family formation. Cuba's Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics of Cuban race relations by highlighting the racially selective reproductive practices and genealogical memories associated with family formation. Karen Y. Morrison reads arc

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Migrants and Markets: Perspectives from Economics and the Other Social Sciences / Kolb, Holger / Egbert, Henrik -- The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market / Lumpe, Christian -- Investigating the Economic Impact of Immigration on the Host Country / Feridun, Mete -- The 'Exit Option' of Labour Migration from East to West Germany / Windzio, Michael -- How Recent Amendments in German Immigration Law Affect Decisions / Fellmer, Simon -- Educational Selectivity and Labour Market Attainment of Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany in the 1990s / Kogan, Irena / Cohen, Yinon -- States as Clubs? / Kolb, Holger -- Chinese Student Migration in Europe / Shen, Wei -- Assessing Interdependencies between Sector Structures and Labour Migration / Hoesch, Kirsten -- Workers' Remittances and International Risk Sharing / Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij -- Skills and Remittances / Vadean, Florin-Petru -- The Impact of Migration on Foreign Trade in Bolivia / Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier Canavire / Ruud, Laura -- List of Contributors

The demand for urban transport quality is typically above financing possibilities of public authorities. Financing urban transport has always been one of the prime problems of city authorities because of the necessity to connect the city centres with their surroundings and to enable time saving and thus better quality of life for the citizens. This problem especially emerges in the twenty-first century when the citizen requirements for better urban and suburban connectivity are coupled with smart, intermodal and energy-efficient urban transport. The financing problem of urban transport is somewhat simpler in very populated and developed areas as the growing number of public transport users continuously finance urban transport fleet renewal. However, less developed areas have to have integrated pricing and social policies towards the end users of urban transport, which often turns to be unsustainable in the longer period of time. Depending on the project size, financial strength of municipalities and/or central state, urban transport infrastructure construction and maintenance are typically financed from national or local state funds or borrowing. Some urban transport lines can also be given in a concession. Financing urban transport encompasses either financing urban transport infrastructure construction or financing fleet renewal, or combined financing of both urban transport infrastructure and fleet renewal. The EU funds have contributed much to financing urban transport needs, especially in large metropolitan areas. Yet, many countries opt for financing regional and cross regional connectivity by roads, rail, airports or waterways, while urban transport remains a care of national or local public authorities. Most literature is devoted to rail, road and port infrastructure construction in general, while urban transport fleet renewal and operating performance of urban transport operators have not been widely discussed. This chapter aims to partly fill in this gap for the selected cities of formerly planned economies of the Central and Eastern Europe and Southern and Eastern Europe.

Foreign trade liberalisation, taking place in the framework of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) affects the welfare of men much more favourably than that of women and thus negatively influences gender equality. Due to historically developed ideology of gender relations, men and women take different social-economic positions all over the world and their abilities to act in the trade sphere and use the advantages given to them by liberalisation works towards the discrimination of women. Taking into account that international trade is an important object of economic development, comprising such fields of strategic development as agriculture, services, investment, it is necessary to integrate gender in the formation of the foreign trade policy both at the national and international levels. This could help to avoid the discrimination of women and provide the appropriate conditions to use the suppressed women's potential, which could significantly contribute to the development of foreign trade as well as the global economy. ; Pasaulio prekybos organizacijos taisyklėmis vadovaujantis vykstantis užsienio prekybos liberalizavimas kur kas palankiau veikia vyrų nei moterų gerovę ir taip daro neigiamą įtaką lyčių lygybei. Dėl istoriškai susiklosčiusios lyčių santykių ideologijos visame pasaulyje vyrai ir moterys užima skirtingas socialines-ekonomines pozicijas ir jų galimybės veikti prekybos srityje ir pasinaudoti liberalizacijos teikiamais privalumais veikia moterų diskriminavimo linkme. Atsižvelgiant į tai, kad užsienio prekyba yra svarbus ekonomikos plėtros objektas, apimantis tokias strategines plėtros sritis kaip žemės ūkis, paslaugos, investicijos, būtina integruoti lyčių aspektą formuojant užsienio prekybos politiką nacionaliu ir tarptautiniu lygiu. Taip butų išvengta moterų diskriminavimo ir sudarytos sąlygos panaudoti užgniaužtą moterų potencialą, prisidedant prie užsienio prekybos, o kartu ir pasaulio ekonomikos plėtros.