1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990003533050203316

Autore

LINDSAY, Lisa A.

Titolo

Il commercio degli schiavi / Lisa A. Lindsay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna : Il Mulino, 2011

ISBN

978-88-15-14957-2

Descrizione fisica

186 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Universale paperbacks Il mulino ; 599

Disciplina

380.14409

Soggetti

Tratta degli schiavi - Sec. 16.-19

Collocazione

X.2.B. 2063

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Traduzione di Rinaldo Falcioni



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910647211803321

Titolo

Social contracts and informal workers in the global south / / edited by Laura Alfers, Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Rhodes University, South Africa and Director, Social Protection Programme, WIEGO, UK, Martha Chen, Lecturer of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, US and Senior Advisor, WIEGO, UK, Sophie Plagerson, Visiting Associate Professor, Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and independent consultant, the Netherlands

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Northampton : , : Edward Elgar Publishing, , 2022

ISBN

1-83910-806-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 pages)

Disciplina

331.1091724

Soggetti

Social contract

Informal sector (Economics) - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction: social contracts and informal workers in the global South -- 1. Recognition, responsiveness and reciprocity: what informal worker leaders expect from the state, the private sector and themselves -- 2. Self-employment and social contracts from the perspective of the informal self-employed -- 3. "Dependent Contractor": towards the recognition of a new labor category -- 4. Taxation and the informal sector in the global South: strengthening the social contract without reciprocity? -- 5. Towards a more inclusive social protection: informal workers and the struggle for a new social contract -- 6. Extended Producer Responsibility: opportunities and challenges for waste pickers -- 7. Human rights and transnational social contracts: the recognition and inclusion of homeworkers? -- 8. Informal workers harnessing the power of digital platforms in India -- 9. "Essential and disposable? Or just disposable?" Informal workers during COVID-19 -- Conclusion: Post-pandemic epilogue - the bad old contract, an even worse contractor a better social contract for informal



workers? -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers, who represent over 60 per cent of the global workforce, to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations, illustrating how current social contracts may be considered inadequate, irrelevant or unjust. Bridging social contract theories, both mainstream and critical, and the experiences of informal workers - self-employed, wage employed and sub-contracted - this book sheds light on how many existing social contract models stigmatize informal workers and do not offer legal or social protection. Instead of ideologically driven 'top-down' calls to revitalize the social contract, it advocates for 'bottom-up' initiatives focused on the demands of the working poor in the informal economy. With a wealth of cross-national evidence, as well as promising case studies, this timely and thought-provoking book will prove vital for scholars and researchers of informal workers and of state-capital-labour relations; and for policy makers negotiating new social contracts"--

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910811164803321

Autore

Hamlin Christopher <1951->

Titolo

Cholera [[electronic resource] ] : the biography / / Christopher Hamlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-383-04523-2

1-282-38318-3

9786612383182

0-19-157170-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

Biographies of disease

Disciplina

614.5/14

616.932

Soggetti

Cholera - History - 19th century

Cholera - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of illustrations; Prologue: Home alone; 1 Cholera: the very idea; 2 Cholera finds itself; 3 Citizen cholera; 4 Cholera confuses; 5 Cholera goes into analysis, and dies; 6 Cholera's last laugh; Glossary; Notes; Further reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Cholera is a frightening disease. Victims are wracked by stomach cramps and suffer intense diarrhoea. Death can come within hours.Though now seeming a distant memory in Europe, which suffered several epidemics in the 19th century before John Snow identified the link with water, it is still a serious threat in many parts of the world - Zimbabwe is a recent example. Snow's discovery was one of the great breakthroughs of epidemiology and a wonderful story from the history of science. Later came the discovery of the culprit organism - Cholera vibrio - understanding of its life cycle, and the devel