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Political Economy of New Slaveryby Dr Christien van den Anker; Timothy M. Shaw
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 109.00This unique volume combines chapters containing a multidisciplinary academic analysis of the causes of the continued existence of contemporary forms of slavery, such as globalization, poverty and migration with empirical chapters on trafficking, domestic migrant workers, bonded labour and child labour in Asia, Latin America and Africa. It provides relevant policy recommendations, such as respect for victims' rights and assesses longer term strategies for change, including Fair Trade, reparations for slavery in the past, the Tobin tax and Development ethics. more...
Apprenticeshipsby Erica Smith; Vikki Smith
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 199.00ople has traditionally been an ?alternative? to mainstream routes through school and college / university. However, significant changes in recent years remain relatively unexplored and under ?researched. Drawing on contributions from a range of countries this e-book on Apprenticeships explores some of the challenges that the apprenticeship system faces in the countries represented as their economies and societies evolve, and the measures that are being taken to address these challenges. more...
Apprenticeship In England, 1600-1914by Joan Lane
Taylor & Francis 1996; US$ 145.00A social history of the changing fortunes of apprentices and the system of apprenticeship over three centuries of English history. more...
The Craft Apprenticeby W.J. Rorabaugh
Oxford University Press 1988; US$ 34.00The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon flourished into a fascinating and essential social institution. Benjamin Franklin got his start in life as an apprentice, as did Mark Twain, Horace Greeley, William Dean Howells, William Lloyd Garrison, and many other famous Americans. But the Industrial Revolution brought with it radical changes in the lives of craft apprentices. In this book, W. J. Rorabaugh has woven an intriguing collection of case histories, gleaned from numerous letters, diaries, and memoirs, into a narrative that examines the varied experiences of individual apprentices and documents the massive changes wrought by the... more...
United we Serveby E.J. Dionne; Kayla Meltzer Drogosz; Robert E. Litan
Brookings Institution Press 2003; US$ 22.95Public rhetoric in the USA has always laid heavy stress on the obligations of citizenship. Bill Clinton praised the idea of service as does George W. Bush. This volume gathers voices on civic life and civic obligation to explore the idea of national service as it relates to citizenship. more...
Nobodiesby John Bowe
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 11.99Most Americans would be shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet most of us buy goods made by people who aren’t paid for their labor–people who are trapped financially, and often physically. In Nobodies , award-winning journalist John Bowe exposes the outsourcing, corporate chicanery, immigration fraud, and sleights of hand that allow forced labor to continue in the United States while the rest of us notice nothing but the everyday low price at the checkout counter. Based on thorough and often dangerous research, exclusive interviews, and eyewitness accounts, Nobodies takes you inside three illegal workplaces where employees are virtually or literally enslaved. In the fields of Immokalee, Florida,... more...
Quality in Apprenticeshipsby Erica Smith; Phillip Grollman
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 199.00This ebook focuses on the issue of quality in apprenticeship. Apprenticeship remains an important model for the development of qualification-based skills, especially for young people, in the economies of many countries around the world. In 2005, Education + Training published a special edition looking at the role of apprenticeships in economies and societies. The 2007 special edition turns the focus onto the quality of apprenticeships. While apprenticeships are important as a policy instrument for reducing unemployment and producing qualifications, in the end the system can only be said to work when it involves high quality training. more...
A Future for the Excludedby Raff Carmen; Miguel Sobrado
Zed Books 2000; US$ 36.95Clodomir Santos de Morais is to organizational and entrepreneurial literacy what his Brazilian confrere, Paulo Freire, is to ordinary literacy. This book introduces for the first time in English the experiences of grassroots development workers who have applied his ideas of the Organization Workshop and capacitation in highly diverse social settings. One of the most exciting aspects of de Morais's methods of working with the most marginalized sectors of society is their relevance not just to Third World countries, but also to Eastern Europe's economies in transition and the most deprived areas of the industrialized countries. This highly distinctive grassroots development approach to empowering socially excluded strata in economic and... more...
The Coolie Speaksby Lisa Yun
Temple University Press 2008; US$ 27.95The Coolie Speaks focuses on Chinese laborers who worked side by side with African slaves in Cuba and wrote of their experiences of new bondage. Examining these narratives of resistance, the book reconceptualizes diasporic representations and histories to offer transformative re-examinations of "Chinese," "African," and "Latino" in mutually imbricated contexts. more...
Une Alliance mondiale contre le travail forcéby International Labour Office
International Labour Office 2005; US$ 29.95Provides a global estimate of the numbers of people in forced labour and explores global patterns of forced labour and actions to eradicate it. Reviews ILO assistance to member States and sets out a proposed plan of action. more...









