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After a brief overview over Goan society before its takeover by India in 1961, the author looks at recent developments, focussing his attention on five interrelated areas of concern - the "big families" (large business-houses with political influence), fishing, the "gaun-kari" (villages dominated by dominant castes), cultural expression and tourism. Goa firmly caught in bourgeois-capitalist society. Decline of peace, order and cleanliness. (DÜI-Sen)

Presents a structural account of the variation in the forms & extent of violence employed by ethnoregional movements in Western democracies via case examples of violent tactics employed by movements in Scotland, Catalonia & Euskadi (Spain), Quebec, & Northern Ireland. Variation is explained by state reinforcement of ethnic political identities usually through repression, a party system that resists rather than absorbs political change, & blocked opportunities for political mobility among ethnic movement radicals. These in turn depend on the historical conditions that define state strategies for expanding their own authority. Adapted from the source document.

This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O'Brien argue that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems like obesity, early mortality, the high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, and crime. They show how, decades before California's passage of Proposition 13, many southern states implemented legislation that makes it almost impossible to raise property or corporate taxes, a pattern now growing in the western states. Taxing the Poor demonstrates how sales taxes intended to replace the missing revenue--taxes that at first glance appear fair--actually punish the poor and exacerbate the very conditions that drove them into poverty in the first place.

In Growing Gaps, Paul Attewell and Katherine S. Newman bring together an impressive group of scholars to closely examine the relationship between inequality and education. Covering almost every continent, Growing Gaps provides an overarching and essential examination of who is actually able to benefit from economic growth and who, because of the educational demands it brings about, it shuts out.