1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460746503321

Titolo

World employment social outlook : trends 2015 / / International Labour Organisation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva : , : International Labour Office, , 2015

ISBN

92-2-129260-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 p.)

Collana

World Employment and Social Outlook

Disciplina

330.90511

Soggetti

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Employment (Economic theory) - Social aspects - 21st century

Unemployment - 21st century

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; List of figures; List of tables and boxes; Acknowledgements; Summary: Renewed turbulence over the employment horizon; 1. Global employment and social developments; Introduction; A. Labour market trends  ; B. Social developments and trends  ; Appendix; 2. Regional developments: An uneven and uncertain recovery; Developed economies and European Union ; Central and South-Eastern Europe (non-EU) and the CIS ; Latin America and the Caribbean  ; East Asia ; South East Asia and the Pacific ; South Asia  ; Middle East and North Africa ; Sub-Saharan Africa

3. Medium-term challenges for jobs with equity Introduction; A. Shrinking labour supply and population ageing  ; B. Changes in occupational patterns  ; C.  Income inequality and economic growth accelerations and slowdowns  ; Concluding remarks ; Appendix; Annexes; 1. Global and regional figures; 2. Labour market estimates and projections; 3. Occupational and sectoral employment estimates and projections; 4. Real wage growth estimates and projection; 5. Regional groupings; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

The World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2015 includes a forecast of worsening global unemployment levels and explains the factors behind it, such as continuing inequality and falling wage shares.



The report looks at the drivers of the rising middle class in the developing world as well as the risk of social unrest, especially in areas of elevated youth unemployment.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791430603321

Titolo

Queer ecologies [[electronic resource] ] : sex, nature, politics, desire / / edited by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Ind., : Indiana University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-97570-6

9786612975707

0-253-00474-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Mortimer-SandilandsCatriona

EricksonBruce

Disciplina

306.76/601

Soggetti

Queer theory

Sex

Human ecology

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

Introduction: a genealogy of queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson -- Eluding capture: the science, culture, and pleasure of "queer" animals / Stacy Alaimo -- Enemy of the species / Ladelle McWhorter -- Penguin family values: the nature of planetary environmental reproductive justice / Noël Sturgeon -- Queernaturecultures / David Bell -- Non-white reproduction and same-sex eroticism: queer acts against nature / Andil Gosine -- From jook joints to sisterspace: the role of nature in lesbian alternative environments in the United States / Nancy C. Unger -- Polluted politics? Confronting toxic discourse, sex panic, and eco-normativity / Giovanna Di Chiro -- Undoing nature: coalition building as queer environmentalism / Katie Hogan -- Fragments, edges, and matrices: retheorizing the formation of a so-called gay ghetto through queering



landscape ecology / Gordon Brent Ingram -- "The place, promised, that has not yet been": the nature of dislocation and desire in Adrienne Rich's Your native land/your life and Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime against nature / Rachel Stein -- "fucking close to water": queering the production of the nation / Bruce Erickson -- Melancholy natures, queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands -- Biophilia, creative involution, and the ecological future of queer desire / Dianne Chisholm.