1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777434603321

Titolo

Enterprise and welfare reform in communist Asia / / editors, Peter Ferdinand and Martin Gainsborough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-75860-3

0-203-00532-5

1-135-75861-1

1-280-17532-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (133 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FerdinandPeter

GainsboroughMartin <1966->

Disciplina

338.095/09171/7

Soggetti

Economic assistance - Asia

Economic assistance, Russian - Asia

Communism - Asia

Capitalism - Asia

Mixed economy - Asia

Industrial policy - Asia

Business enterprises - Government policy - Asia

Public welfare - Asia

Asia Commercial policy Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This group of studies first appeared in a special issue. of The journal of communist studies and transition politics (ISSN 1352-3279) 19/1 (March 2003) published by Frank Cass--Verso t.p.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Fluctuating Institutions of Enterprise Management in North Korea: Prospects for Local Enterprise Reform; Pragmatism in the Face of Adversity: Enterprise Reform in Laos; Slow, Quick, Quick: Assessing Equitization and Enterprise Performance Prospects in Vietnam; Entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam as Strategic Players in Social and Political Change; China's Social Security Reforms and the Comparative Politics of Market Transition; Trade Unionism in China: Sinking or Swimming?; Abstracts;



Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Featuring a wide geographical scope, this collection of essays surveys enterprise and welfare reforms in all the remaining four Asian communist states: China, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union they can no longer place major reliance upon assistance from other 'fraternal' states and have to devise their own strategies for survival. All have shown a trend towards greater reliance on market forces, though in different ways and to varying degrees. Enterprise management has to adapt to this. In some of them entrepreneurs have become politically and socially accep

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777833003321

Autore

Forssgren Ernest A. <1894-1970.>

Titolo

The memoirs of Ernest A. Forssgren, Proust's Swedish valet [[electronic resource] /] / edited and annotated by William C. Carter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-281-73153-6

9786611731533

0-300-13336-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CarterWilliam C

Disciplina

843/.912

B

Soggetti

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General

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 -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations of Titles of Proust's Works -- Ernest Forssgren -- The Job Applicant -- Introduction to Forssgren's Memoirs and Related Documents -- The Mysterious Visit -- Afterword -- Forssgren's "Summary" of Painter -- Forssgren's Marginalia -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The memoirs of Ernest Forssgren (1894-1970), the young Swede who served as Marcel Proust's last valet, provide new insights into Proust's life and death. Previously, Forssgren's memoir has been published only



in excerpts, in French, with serious omissions and alterations. This book presents the complete text of the memoir, with an introduction and helpful annotations by the distinguished Proust scholar William C. Carter. Also included here is other new material: the inscriptions that Proust wrote for Forssgren's copy of Swann's Way; an important telegram that Proust sent Forssgren, which defines with greater precision the novelist's activities in the final months of his life; Forssgren's "Summary" of the first English biography of Proust, by George D. Painter, which provides many new details about Proust's last trip to Cabourg in 1914 and his attempts at seducing young men of the servant class; and the notes that Forssgren made in his copy of Painter's biography.