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- Corporate responsibility or core competence?
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Although the concept that corporations are responsible not only to their shareholders but also for the social and environmental impacts of their activities has now entered the mainstream, pressure is still required to ensure that companies honour their pu ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:47
- Globalisation and homelessness in the USA: building a social movement to end poverty
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The authors explore the deleterious effects of economic globalisation on people in the USA, and explain the rise of poor people's organisations as a response to these conditions. They look at the impact of economic changes in terms of public policy and ar ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Corruption and development: a study of conflict
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This paper discusses the relationship between corruption and economic development. It questions the view that under certain conditions, corruption may enhance efficiency and argues that though corruption may benefit powerful individuals, it will indubitab ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling our Lives
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Author: Bunting, Madeleine Publisher: London: Harper Perennial, 2005, ISBN: 0 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:48
- Globalization and Social Exclusion A Transformationalist Perspective
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Author: Ronaldo Munck Publisher: Bloomfield, CT, Kumarian Press, 2005, ISBN 1 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:57
- Public service privatisation and crisis in Argentina
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This article discusses the privatisation of public services in Argentina in light of the severe crisis that afflicted the country between 1999 and 2002. An inadequate regulatory framework and the absence of effective regulatory agencies resulted in the ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:50
- Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA
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Reviewed by Luz María de la Mora, Trade Representative of the Mexican Ministry of Economy at the EU, Brussels Author: Bair, Jennifer ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Workplace codes as tools for workers
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Workers face tremendous challenges in their fight to organise, both in terms of personal risk and the sheer number of obstacles. Overcoming such challenges requires multiple strategies and broad-ranging collaboration. In this article we begin by reviewing ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:11
- Globalization and Human Rights
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Author: Brysk, Alison (ed.) Publisher: Berkeley, CA: University of California ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- Understanding and responding to the links between conflict and hunger
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Rising food prices in the late 2000s sparked protests, sometimes violent, around the globe. These public expressions of outrage were only the tip of the iceberg. Many countries have a legacy of food wars. In sub-Saharan Africa, at least 14 countries fac ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-15 15:52
