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Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword: Global Capitalism and Social Theory for the Twenty-First Century: What a Brazilian Case Study Tells Us -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Acronyms -- Introduction: Walking on Shifting Ground -- 1 A Period of Crisis and the General Direction of Change -- 2 Global Capitalism, Transnational Capital and Labor: An Approach -- 3 Framing Multi-situated Social Phenomena: Global Production Networks (GPN s), Corporate Strategies, and International Trade Union Networks -- 4 Some Methodological Notes: Ethnographic Inspiration and the 'Extended Case Method' -- Chapter 1 From Companhia Vale do Rio Doce to Vale S.A. -- 1 The CVRD's Privatization and the Internationalization Leap -- 2 The Mineral Commodity Boom and Post-boom -- 3 Changes and Continuity in the Strategy for Labor and Union Relations after Privatization -- 4 Some Characteristics of Vale's Iron Ore GPN in Brazil -- Chapter 2 Corporate Power and Union Fragmentation: Vale's Labor and Union Relations Strategy in Brazil -- 1 Entering the Field in a Period of Crisis -- 2 Collective Power Weakened -- 3 The First Driver of the Carajás Railroad -- 4 Employee Representation in Vale's Board of Directors -- 5 The Challenges of Entering Carajás -- 6 "It's Always Good to Know Who You're Talking To" -- Chapter 3 Vale Buys a Canadian Treasure: Restructuring, Strike, and International Trade Union Network -- 1 "The Great Canadian Mining Non-disaster" -- 2 A Brazilian Mother-in-Law for the Orphans of "Mother Inco" -- 3 A Powerful Multinational Union with Deep Local Roots -- 4 "It Can't Be Easy to Have Me as a Boss" -- 5 Defeat or Victory? -- 6 Vale's International Trade Union Network: A Frustrated Experience -- Chapter 4 Conclusion: Global Capitalism, Pension Funds and Vale's 'New Corporate Governance'.

Introduction: Discursive contexts -- The subject of agency -- "Forced marriage" and a culture of consent -- Britain: the politics of belonging -- The United States and Canada: individual freedom and community -- Regenerating tradition through transnational popular culture -- Conclusion: a cultural studies approach

"We revisit to what extent the increase in income inequality over the last 30 years has been mirrored by consumption inequality. We do so by constructing two alternative measures of consumption expenditure, using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE). We first use reports of active savings and after tax income to construct the measure of consumption implied by the budget constraint. We find that the consumption inequality implied by savings behavior largely tracks income inequality between 1980 and 2007. Second, we use a demand system to correct for systematic measurement error in the CE's expenditure data. Specifically, we consider trends in the relative expenditure of high income and low income households for different goods with different income (total expenditure) elasticities. Our estimation exploits the difference in the growth rate of luxury consumption inequality versus necessity consumption inequality. This "double-differencing,'' which we implement in a a regression framework, corrects for mis-measurement that can systematically vary over time by good and income group. This second exercise indicates that consumption inequality has closely tracked income inequality over the period 1980-2007. Both of our measures show a significantly greater increase in consumption inequality than what is obtained from the CE's total household expenditure data directly"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

"This paper examines the changing allocation of time within the United States that has occurred between 1965 and 2003-2005. We find that the time individuals have allocated to leisure has increased in the U.S. for both men and women during this period, with almost the entire gain occurring prior to 1985. We also find that post 1985 there has been a substantial increase in leisure inequality, particularly for men. Over the last 20 years, less educated men increased the time they allocated to leisure while more educated men recorded a decrease in leisure time. While the relative decline in the employment rate of less educated men is important, trends in employment status explain less than half of the increase in the leisure gap"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site