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UNINA9910453906603321 |
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Cultures of unemployment [[electronic resource] ] : a comparative look at long-term unemployment and urban poverty / / Godfried Engbersen ... [et al.] |
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Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2006 |
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1-281-97896-5 |
9786611978969 |
90-485-0402-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (293 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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EngbersenGodfried <1958-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Unemployment |
Poverty |
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 and index. |
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Contents; Tables and Figure; Foreword; Part One: Introduction; Ch. 1: Cultures of the Welfare State; Ch. 2: The Central Issues of the Study; Part Two: Empirical Study; Ch. 3: A Jobless Market; Ch. 4: Making Ends Meet; Ch. 5: Dealing with Time; Ch. 6: Looking for a Job; Ch. 7: The Perceptions of Rights and Obligations; Part Three: Analysis and Comparisons; Ch. 8: Cultures of Unemployment; Ch. 9: Homo Calculans and Homo Honoris; Ch. 10: A Profile of Urban Poverty; Appendixes; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; About the book and the authors; Index |
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...an extraordinarily rich and detailed study of the social and economic life of unemployed and poor households. Michael Sherraden in Social Work |
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UNISA996517761203316 |
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Uchida Jun |
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Asia Pacific Modern. Provincializing Empire : Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora / / Jun Uchida |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2023] |
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©2023 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (378 p.) |
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Asia Pacific Modern ; ; 18 |
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Merchants - Japan - Shiga-ken - History |
HISTORY / Asia / Japan |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Japan and the Pacific World -- Introduction -- Part One. Ōmi Merchants in the Early Modern Era -- 1 The Rise of Ōmi Shōnin as Diasporic Traders -- 2 At the Nexus of Colonialism and Capitalism in Hokkaido -- Part Two. Ōmi Merchants as a Model of Expansion -- 3 A Vision of Transpacific Expansion from the Periphery -- 4 The Production of Global Ōmi Shōnin -- Part Three. Ōmi Merchants across the Transpacific Diaspora -- 5 The “Gōshū Zaibatsu” in Japan’s Cotton Empire -- 6 Ōmi Merchants in the Colonial World of Retail -- 7 A Shiga Immigrant Diaspora in Canada -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary-Index |
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Provincializing Empire explores the global history of Japanese expansion through a regional lens. It rethinks the nation-centered geography and chronology of empire by uncovering the pivotal role of expeditionary merchants from !2;mi (present-day Shiga Prefecture) and their modern successors. Tracing their lives from the early modern era, and writing them into the global histories of empire, diaspora, and capitalism, Jun Uchida offers an innovative analysis of expansion through a story previously untold: how the nation's provincials built on their traditions to create a transpacific |
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diaspora that stretched from Seoul to Vancouver, while helping shape the modern world of transoceanic exchange. |
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