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Glasgow: The Making of a City
by Andrew GibbOriginally published in 1983, this book sets the phases and elements of Glasgow’s townscape evolution in their historical framework, from the medieval period when Glasgow was a small but important burgh to the growth of the town thanks to its command of the transatlantic tobacco trade in the 18th Century. Examining the solid growth which came with the textile phase of the industrial revolution and subsequent pioneering achievements in ship-building and marine engineering, the book also charts the subsequent collapse of the industrial base and attempts at urban renewal on a massive scale.
Glass Ceilings And Dirt Floors: Women, Work, And The Global Economy
by Christine Firer HinzeToday's market economy depends upon, yet undervalues, the essential contributions of households to the care work that makes all other work possible. As designated tenders of the care economy, women take daily, costly responsibility for a fundamental fact that mainstream economics underplays or conceals, market economy depends continuously on another economy, wherein our embodied vulnerabilities are respected and addressed by way of caring labor and relationships. In this compelling expose on the (in)justice of women's work, Christine Firer Hinze argues for re-prioritizing the holistic understanding of economy as oikonomia-literally, the management of a household in order to sustainably provide for all members-assumed in traditional classical, and contemporary political economics. This oikos-focused paradigm addresses global work-family struggles at their roots by shifting the axis of our economic imaginations, values, and policy making from a marketized-competitive model to one that prioritizes economy's inclusive, provisioning purposes. Following several years of working in inner-city ministry and teaching high school in Detroit, Christine Firer Hinze received a PhD in Christian social ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her research and teaching focus on Catholic social and economic ethics, women and work, and power and social transformation. Book jacket.
Glass Ceilings: Enhancing Social Mobility: Leadership Lessons From Charter Schools
by Iain HallAfter a Damascene moment following a school trip to the US, Sir Iain Hall realised the UK's approach to urban education is all wrong. In Glass Ceilings, the hugely experienced and respected educator lays out his vision to get social mobility moving again in the UK.
Glass Ceilings: Enhancing Social Mobility: Leadership Lessons From Charter Schools
by Iain HallAfter a Damascene moment following a school trip to the US, Sir Iain Hall realised the UK's approach to urban education is all wrong. In Glass Ceilings, the hugely experienced and respected educator lays out his vision to get social mobility moving again in the UK.
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
by Brian AlexanderFor readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own LandWINNER OF THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARDS AND FINALIST FOR THE 87TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS |NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle • Books by the Banks Book Festival • Bookauthority.comThe Wall Street Journal: "A devastating portrait...For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment in 2016, Mr. Alexander supplies plenty of answers." Laura Miller, Slate: "This book hunts bigger game.Reads like an odd?and oddly satisfying?fusion of George Packer’s The Unwinding and one of Michael Lewis’ real-life financial thrillers."The New Yorker : "Does a remarkable job." Beth Macy, author of Factory Man: "This book should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a needlessly wrecked rural America. I wish I had written it." In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion.The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster’s society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster’s citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town’s biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music festival who discovers the town relies on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed may have been Lancaster’s biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancaster’s real problems.
Glass Jaw: A Manifesto For Defending Fragile Reputations In An Age Of Instant Scandal
by Eric DezenhallIn an age when scandal can destroy a company's brand or anyone's reputation in an instant-GLASS JAW is an Art of War guide to modern crisis management. In boxing terms, a tough-looking fighter who can't take a punch is said to have a "glass jaw," and so it is these days with targets of controversy. Down the rabbit hole of scandal, the weak are strong and the strong are weak. Just consider this slate of recent reputational body blows: Toyota, Susan G. Komen, Paula Deen, Tiger Woods, Joe Paterno, BP, the Duke Lacrosse players, Lance Armstrong, and Anthony Weiner. GLASS JAW is a manifesto for these times, written by crisis management veteran Eric Dezenhall, who has spent three decades dealing with some of the most intense controversies, both known and . . . handled with discretion. In the current digital age, the fundamental nature of controversy is viral, rendering once-mighty organizations and individuals powerless against scandal. In GLASS JAW, Dezenhall analyzes scandal and demystifies the paper tiger "spin" industry, offering lessons, corrective measures, and counterintuitive insights, such as: How there really is no "getting ahead" of a bad story (and other clichés from the media) The perils of navigating the "Fiasco Vortex" The art (and transaction) of the public apology Why a crisis is not an opportunity The Nixon Fallacy: if only he had just said "I screwed up," the whole thing would have gone away (not a chance) How you are the enemy: the self-sabotage of selfies, tweets, emailing before thinking, technology creep, the privacy vacuum, and the industrialization of leaking. From the boardroom to the parenting messaging board, scandals erupt every day. GLASS JAW explains this changing nature of controversy and offers readers counterpunches to best protect themselves.
Gleichheit, Politik und Polizei: Jacques Rancière und die Sozialwissenschaften
by Thomas Linpinsel Il-Tschung LimJacques Rancière gilt als einer der einflussreichsten französischen Philosophen der Gegenwart, in dessen gesamtem Werk immer wieder das Motiv der radikalen Kritik an der Sozialwissenschaft in Szene gesetzt wird. In dem Sammelband werden zahlreiche Denkmotive des französischen Philosophen aus einer genuin sozialwissenschaftlichen Perspektive aufgegriffen, weitergedacht und kritisiert, wobei in den einzelnen Artikeln konkrete Forschungsperspektiven mit Rancière entwickelt, methodologische Überlegungen im Anschluss an Rancière vorgestellt, gesellschaftstheoretische Reflexionen vor dem Hintergrund der Kritik des Philosophen unternommen sowie Aspekte seines politischen Denkens in die politische Theorie integriert werden. Aber auch sozialwissenschaftliche Kritik an der Philosophie Rancières findet in den Argumentationen der Autorinnen und Autoren ihren Platz. Somit bietet der Band ein breit gefächertes Spektrum an sozialwissenschaftlichen Anschlüssen an das Denken des französischen Philosophen. Einerseits schließt der Sammelband damit eine Lücke in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung und ist anderseits der erste genuin sozialwissenschaftliche Beitrag in der umfangreichen jüngeren Forschung zum philosophischen Werk Rancières.
Gleichstellung in progress: Von Frauenförderung zu Diversität und Inklusion
by Angela Wroblewski Angelika SchmidtDer Band thematisiert aktuelle Herausforderungen für Gleichstellungspolitik und die notwendige Weiterentwicklung gleichstellungspolitischer Konzepte, um Exklusionsmechanismen effektiv adressieren zu können. Die Beiträge diskutieren dies an der Schnittstelle zwischen Forschung und Politik sowie anhand konkreter Beispiele.
Gleichstellungspolitiken revisted: Zeitgemäße Gleichstellungspolitik an der Schnittstelle zwischen Politik, Theorie und Praxis
by Angela Wroblewski Angelika SchmidtAnfang der 1990er Jahre wurde erstmals von einem Backlash im Bereich der Frauenförderung und Gleichstellung gesprochen und die Strategien des Patriachats aufgezeigt, die den Forderungen von Frauen* nach gleichberechtigter Teilhabe entgegengesetzt werden. Aktuell wird wieder – nicht nur in Österreich – von einem Backlash gesprochen, der sich beispielsweise in einer Abkehr von der geschlechtsneutralen Sprache, in der Kürzung von Subventionen für Frauen- und Mädchenberatungseinrichtungen, im Rückbau von Institutionen und in Angriffen auf die Gender Studies niederschlägt. Zu diesen Phänomenen von Backlash kam es trotz der Etablierung zahlreicher Institutionen im Bereich Gleichstellung und Bekenntnisse zur Förderung von Vielfalt auf politischer Ebene und von Unternehmensseite. Ausgehend von diesem ambivalenten Befund zum Status Quo von Gleichstellung werden Anforderungen an eine zeitgemäße Gleichstellungspolitik an der Schnittstelle zwischen Politik, Theorie und Praxis formuliert. Die Beiträge in dem Band zeigen aktuelle Herausforderungen für Gleichstellungspolitik und illustrieren, wie die Schnittstelle ausgestaltet werden kann.
Glencoe Sociology & You
by Jon M. Shepard Robert W. GreeneA sociology program written exclusively for high school students Sociology and Youis written by successful authors with extensive experience in the field of sociology. MeetAmerican Sociological Association standardsfor the teaching of sociology in high school with this comprehensive program.
Glimpses of Hope: The Rise of Industrial Labor at the Urban Margins of Nepal (Dislocations #32)
by Michael HoffmannOver the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle-class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in areas such as modern food-processing, water-bottling, housebuilding, and sand-mining industries and explores how workers see such forms of work, where union organization can help, and how work opportunities emerge along lines of gender and ethnicity. Although global labor relations have been mostly in decline for decades, this ethnography offers insights and glimpses of hope in terms of labor dynamics and the opportunities various jobs may afford.
Global Agenda for Social Justice 2: Volume 2: Global Perspectives (SSSP Agendas for Social Justice)
by Glenn W. Muschert, Kristen M. Budd Heather Dillaway, David C. Lane Manjusha Nair, and Jason A. SmithThe Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world’s most pressing social problems and proposes practicable international public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), chapters examine topics such as education, violence, discrimination, substance abuse, public health, and environment. The volume provides recommendations for action by governing officials, policy makers, and the public around key issues of social justice. The book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, advocates, journalists, and students interested in public sociology, the study of social problems, and the pursuit of social justice.
Global Aging and Challenges to Families
by Vern L. BengtsonThe recent explosion in population ageing across the globe represents one of the most remarkable demographic changes in human history. Population ageing will profoundly affect families. Who will care for the growing numbers of tomorrows very old members of societies? Will it be state governments? The aged themselves? Their families? The purpose of this book is to examine consequences of global aging for families and intergenerational support, and for nations as they plan for the future.
Global Aging: Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course, 2nd Edition
by Frank J. Whittington Kate De Medeiros Suzanne R. KunkelPraise for the first edition: “This book is exemplary in amassing demographic, policy, and sociopsychological data from around the world… The content of the book is rich with current information seldom accumulated into one source recommend this volume to gerontologists, aging studies undergraduate and graduate students… demographers, and global studies scholars.” Dr. Carol A. Gosselink, PsycCritiques Written by leading scholars, this esteemed text on global aging is distinguished by its unique perspective on universal similarities and sociocultural differences across nations. Fully revised, updated, and reorganized, the second edition presents comprehensive coverage of major topics in social gerontology and expands its treatment of health behavior, health care, families, caregiving, older workers, and retirement. It delivers new information on living environments, religious beliefs and practices, environmental threats, cross-cultural views of dementia, ageism in advertising, age-friendly communities, global immigration and cultural assimilation, and end-of-life caregiving. The second edition also offers additional case studies, first-person narratives, and focused essays to enhance core material and include a greater number of non-Western contributors. The topical essays reflect changing mores and current issues affecting societies and the aging experience. Discussion questions conclude each chapter, and an Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint slides are available to instructors. The print version of the book includes free, searchable, digital access to the entire contents. New to the Second Edition: - Expanded content on health beliefs and health behavior, religious belief and practice, environmental threats, housing and living environments, physical security, consumer control of health care, family life, and more - Additional topics on global immigration and cultural assimilation, age portrayals in advertising, voluntarism, and the use of social media in caregiving - Abundant new and expanded essays - New case studies and first-person narratives - Many more non-Western contributors Key Features: - Delivers comprehensive coverage of major topics in gerontology - Uses a unique comparative, cross-national perspective - Authored by world-renowned aging scholars - Includes case studies/essays/personal narratives to enliven core information - Provides the most comprehensive demographic data on aging around the world
Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds (Spiritual Phenomena)
by Alex K. GearinCeremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as the spiritual gateway to archaic and primordial worlds, with reports of healing, spiritual insight, and awe-inspiring visions placing ayahuasca among the burgeoning field of psychedelic medicines. Astonished and allured by descriptions of ayahuasca experiences, researchers in psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have attempted to define the shared properties of the visions. In this book, Alex Gearin challenges this simplified obsession with universal truth and explores the embodied practices of contemporary ayahuasca drinkers to reveal how the brew has conjured contradictory experiences across the globe. These range from urban disenchantment and capitalist mastery to competitive sorcery and ecological harmony, wherein the plant-induced visions embody different attitudes towards capitalist modernity. Based upon ethnographic research among Shipibo healers in remote Peru, alternative medicine groups in urban Australia, and entrepreneurs and corporate managers in mainland China, Global Ayahuasca examines how the wondrous visions of ayahuasca are entangled within the social and economic realities that they illuminate, revealing different tensions, fears, and hopes of everyday modern life.
Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines (Culture and Economic Life)
by Victoria ReyesThe U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country's colonial past. Using Subic Bay (a former U.S. military base, now a Freeport Zone) as a case study, Victoria Reyes argues that its defining feature is its ability to elicit multiple meanings. For some, it is a symbol of imperialism and inequality, while for others, it projects utopian visions of wealth and status. Drawing on archival and ethnographic data, Reyes describes the everyday experiences of people living and working in Subic Bay, and makes a case for critically examining similar spaces across the world. These foreign-controlled, semi-autonomous zones of international exchange are what she calls global borderlands. While they can take many forms, ranging from overseas military bases to tourist resorts, they all have key features in common. This new unit of globalization provides a window into broader economic and political relations, the consequences of legal ambiguity, and the continuously reimagined identities of the people living there. Rejecting colonialism as merely a historical backdrop, Reyes demonstrates how it is omnipresent in our modern world.
Global Britain and Neo-colonialism in Africa: Brexit, 'Development' and Coloniality
by Mark LanganThis book examines the implications of Brexit for Africa-UK relations amid a ‘new scramble’ for the continent. Engaging Nkrumah on neo-colonialism and recent scholarship on global coloniality, Langan here underscores concerns that Brexit was fuelled by an imperial romanticism that now gives rise to a Global Britain project involving the perpetration of ‘Empire 2.0’ in Africa. In this context, he examines UK elites’ pursuit of Brexit trade deals and the ‘development’ consequences of premature market opening. Throughout its chapters, this work assesses strategic usages of UK aid monies in terms of economic leverage and the externalisation of migration and highlights the impact of UK development finance and corporate activities for the health and wellbeing of workers and host communities. Significantly, Langan explores the UK’s pursuit of security interests and human rights criticisms and concludes by highlighting African agency to resist the Global Britain project amid the fragility of the British state itself.
Global Business in Local Culture: The Impact Of Embedded Multinational Enterprises (SpringerBriefs in Economics)
by Philipp AerniThis book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries. By balancing external social and environmental costs against its corresponding benefits, the book demonstrates that MNEs can have a positive net-impact on local development if they build up social capital by embedding themselves in local economies and engaging responsibly with local stakeholders. By doing so MNEs contribute to inclusive growth, a cental pillar of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In this context, the book challenges popular narratives in civil society and academia that frame foreign direct investment (FDI) merely as a threat to human rights and sustainable development. Moreover, it offers practical guidance for globally operating businesses seeking to establish progressive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies of their own.
Global Capital and Social Difference
by V. SujathaThis volume offers insights into ongoing, global socio-economic transformations by directing attention to the significance of labour, work, craft, community, social institutions, social movements and, emergent subjectivities in different parts of the world. This is in contrast to theories that project globalisation as a process driven exclusively by global capital and technology, a scheme in which some parts of the world forever will be ‘peripheries’ supplying labor and natural resources, the lives and work of those people purged of originality, meaning and value by the very construct that describes them. Together the chapters in the book present a non-essentialist and non-linear reading of global transformations by examining the relations and adaptations between economy, polity and society, which remains a fundamentally unresolved question in the social sciences. Combining a wealth of conceptual and empirical investigations, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology, globalisation studies, anthropology, economics, development studies, and Area studies.
Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society
by Arif Dirlik Alexander Woodside Roxann PrazniakThis book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these changes for human welfare globally. The book gives special attention to recent economic development and urbanization in the People s Republic of China which have had a major impact on contemporary transformations globally. Case studies from South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America in turn place these transformations in a comparative global perspective. The contributors include distinguished scholars from the UN, PRC, India, Zimbabwe, and Latin America who are also active in policy issues."
Global Catholicism, Tolerance and the Open Society: An Empirical Study of the Value Systems of Roman Catholics
by Arno Tausch Stanislaw ObirekThis book systematically assesses the political and social values of the more than 1.3 billion Catholics around the globe, by far the largest denomination of Western Christianity. Based on an extensive analysis of data from the World Values Survey and other global opinion surveys, the book sheds new light on the value systems and opinions of Roman Catholics. The authors highlight core problems and challenges the Church is currently facing in adapting to the modern world, including Catholic anti-Semitism, religious and sexual tolerance, and opinions towards democracy, while also offering an anthropological reflection on how well the Church is adapting or failing to adapt to the requirements of an open society.
Global Challenges to CSR and Sustainable Development: Root Causes and Evidence from Case Studies (CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance)
by Samuel O. Idowu Stephen VertigansThis book examines and analyzes the challenges programmes for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development are facing in global management practice. It looks at the dichotomy of a general and popular demand for responsible and resilient management, and the counterplayers that impact the positive effect of such efforts. The book assembles latest research looking at the root causes for this opposition, and new case studies that showcase the dilemma and possible solutions to overcome it. Overall, the book juxtaposes short terminism within CSR programmes and longer term sustainable development, mis-allocation of resources and failed promises associated with CSR, and sketches pathways how CSR and sustainable development can be directed towards the most pressing issues.
Global Challenges: Social, Economic, Environmental, Political and Ethical (Springer Geography)
by Katarzyna Podhorodecka Tomasz WitesThis book addresses some of the most urgent global problems in today's world from a geographical perspective and highlights contemporary environmental, political, economic, social and geoethical aspects. The authors discuss causes, developments and challenges faced on a regional and global scale covering among others environmental issues such as loss of biodiversity, development of tourism, natural hazards and disaster risk reduction, migration issues, the global economic crisis and sustainable development. The presented collection of concepts and examples from specific regions offer a new outlook on globalization issues in the world as a whole. This volume can be used as a guide for students from different faculties who wish to understand global issues in the world from a geographical perspective. This book appeals to scientists and students of geography, economics, geopolitics, sustainability issues as well as policy makers and planners.
Global Change in Marine Systems: Societal and Governing Responses (Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society)
by Patrice Guillotreau Alida Bundy R. Ian PerryMarine social and ecological systems around the world face multiple natural and anthropogenic stressors associated with global change. The resulting changes can create hardship for local societies that depend on them for food, livelihoods and wellbeing. Knowing how to respond to global change in a timely and appropriate manner is increasingly occupying the attention of researchers, policy makers, decision makers and practitioners around the world. Written by an international group of researchers from the natural and social sciences, Societal and governing responses to Global Change in Marine Systems analyses and appraises societal and governing responses to change, highlighting and explaining similarities and distinctions between successful, and less successful, responses. The authors present "I-ADApT", an analytical framework that enables decision makers to consider possible responses to global change, based on experiences elsewhere. Within this volume, I-ADApT is applied to 20 enlightening case studies covering a wide range of marine systems that have been challenged by critical global change issues around the world. Introducing innovative research to work towards a range of possible responses to global change, Societal and governing responses to Global Change in Marine Systems will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers and practitioners interested in fields such as: Environment & Natural Resources, Marine Resources and social sciences.
Global Changes and Sustainable Development in Asian Emerging Market Economies Vol. 1: Proceedings of EDESUS 2019
by An Thinh Nguyen Luc HensThis two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. The collection addresses global changes and sustainable development in Vietnam and other emerging market economies in Asia, and covers wider topics such as economics and business (e.g. economic theory, national and international income distribution, macroeconomic policies, sectors of economy, productivity developments, financial market, business governance, bank financing), development and sustainability (e.g. developing process, development policy, public policy, sustainable growth, sustainability tools, sustainable livelihood, sustainable tourism, green growth), and resources and global change (e.g. human resources, natural resources, climate change, globalization, global challenges). The books are of interest to professors, researchers, lecturers, and students in economics and geography, consultants, and decision makers interested in global changes and sustainable development. Volume 1 focuses on economic development in Vietnam and other emerging market economies in Asia. This covers topics such as economics and business (e.g. economic theory, national and international income distribution, macroeconomic policies, sectors of economy, productivity developments, financial market, business governance, bank financing) and development studies (e.g. developing process, development policy, public policy, green growth).