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UNINA9910459197003321 |
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Autore |
George Victor |
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Titolo |
Major thinkers in welfare : Contemporary issues in historical perspective / / Vic George |
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Portland, OR : , : Policy Press, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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1-4473-0272-9 |
1-282-63736-3 |
9786612637360 |
1-84742-707-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Public welfare |
POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare |
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Economic History |
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Economic Conditions |
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Economics - Comparative |
POLITICAL SCIENCE - Economic Conditions |
Public welfare - History |
History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-265) and index. |
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MAJOR THINKERS IN WELFARE; Contents; Introduction; 1. Classical Athens; 2. The Graeco-Roman world; 3. Early Christianity; 4. The Renaissance; The Reformation; 5. Absolutism; Liberalism; 6. Early feminism; 7. A welfare society; 8. The market, laissez-faire and welfare; 9. Democracy and welfare; 10. Classical Marxism and welfare; 11. Positive freedom and state welfare; Bibliography; Index. |
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This is the first book to examine the views of a number of theorists from ancient times to the 19th century on a range of welfare issues: wealth, poverty and inequality; slavery, gender issues, and the family; child rearing and education; crime and punishment; the role of |
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government in society; the strengths and weaknesses of government provision vis-à-vis market provision. The book also looks at the values of the various theorists as well as their perception of human nature for these tend to underpin their welfare views. |
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UNINA9910786402303321 |
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Titolo |
Growing up between two cultures : problems and issues of Muslim children / / edited by Farideh Salili and Rumjahn Hoosain |
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Charlotte, North Carolina : , : Information Age Publishing Inc., , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (374 p.) |
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Collana |
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Research in Multicultural Education and International Perspectives |
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Muslims - Non-Islamic countries |
Muslim children |
Muslim children - Education |
Muslim youth |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Front ""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Chapter 7""; ""Chapter 8""; ""Chapter 9""; ""Chapter 10""; ""Chapter 11""; ""Chapter 12""; ""Chapter 13"" |
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UNINA9910827132103321 |
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Autore |
Stoll David <1952-> |
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El Norte or bust : how migration fever and microcredit produced a financial crash in a Latin American town / / David Stoll |
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Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2013 |
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1-283-84819-8 |
1-4422-2069-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Microfinance - Guatemala - Nebraj |
Ixil Indians - Guatemala - Nebraj - Economic conditions |
Quiché Indians - Guatemala - Nebraj - Economic conditions |
Emigrant remittances - Guatemala - Nebraj |
Noncitizens - United States - Economic conditions |
Illegal immigration |
Nebaj (Guatemala) Emigration and immigration Economic aspects |
Nebaj (Guatemala) Economic conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Maps and Tables; Preface; Part I. THE AMERICAN DREAM COMES TO THE CUCHUMATANES; Chapter One. Great Expectations in a Guatemalan Town; Chapter Two. A Town of Many Projects; Chapter Three. Nebaj Goes North; Chapter Four. Indenture Travel; Part II. THE NEBAJ BUBBLE AND HOW IT BURST; Chapter Five. Borrowers, Moneylenders, and Banks; Chapter Six. Projects and Their Penumbra-Swindles; Chapter Seven. Losing Husbands to El Norte; Part III. COMPARISONS AND EXTRAPOLATIONS; Chapter Eight. Dreams and Pyramid Schemes; Chapter Nine. The Right to Not Migrate; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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"Debt is the hidden engine driving undocumented migration to the United States. So argues David Stoll in this powerful chronicle of migrants, moneylenders, and swindlers in the Guatemalan highlands, one of the locales that, collectively, are sending millions of Latin Americans north in search of higher wages. As an anthropologist, Stoll |
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has witnessed the Ixil Mayas of Nebaj grow in numbers, run out of land, and struggle to find employment. Aid agencies have provided microcredits to turn the Nebajenses into entrepreneurs, but credit alone cannot boost productivity in crowded mountain valleys, which is why many recipients have invested the loans in smuggling themselves to the United States. Back home, their remittances have inflated the price of land so high that only migrants can afford to buy it. Thus, more Nebajenses have felt obliged to borrow the large sums needed to go north. So many have done so that, even before the Great Recession hit the U.S. in 2008, many were unable to find enough work to pay back their loans, triggering a financial crash back home. Now migrants and their families are losing the land and homes they have pledged as collateral. Chain migration, moneylending, and large families, Stoll proposes, have turned into pyramid schemes in which the poor transfer risk and loss to their near and dear."- from Amazon.com |
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