1. Introduction -- 2. Global Human Migration -- 3. Slavery - The Ancient and Medieval Periods -- 4. Slavery in the New World - the Saga of Native Indians -- 5. Slavery in the New World - The Saga of Black Africans -- 6. Indentured Servitude - The Saga of the Indians and the Chinese -- 7....

1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of Turning Points in Equality and Wealth Gaps -- 3. Wealth Gap Index Construction and Data Analysis -- 4. Multiple Equality Indexes Related to the Wealth Gap -- 5. Analysis of the Turning Point of Wealth Gap Index and Economic Growth -- 6. Wealth Gap and Social...

Preface -- Chapter 1 Poverty Alleviation Process in Rural China -- Chapter 2 Literature Review -- Chapter 3 Absolute and Relative Changes in Rural Poverty -- Chapter 4 Pro-poor Growth for Rural China -- Chapter 5 The Decomposition of Income Growth and Income Inequality on Rural Poverty --...

Chapter 1 Introduction: Debates on Workers’ consciousness development in China -- Chapter 2 The (Re-) Making of a Docile working class in China -- Chapter 3 Automatic Docility in Market Socialism -- Chapter 4 “Beyond” the Selves and Reflective Docility -- Chapter 5 Conclusion.

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

Wenn es in London regnet: Ein Vorwort -- "Non, merci beaucoup" – Immer Ärger mit Europa -- „Sie sind ja immer noch da!“ - Der Streit um die Fremden -- Nigel Farage – Volkstribun und paradox -- Sieger und Besiegte – Brexit und kein Ende -- Konstruierte Erinnerung – Wie britisch ist...

This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Institutional Routines and the Victorian Publishing Industry -- Chapter 3: Authorship: Legitimation of a Literary Profession -- Chapter 4: Literary Agents: Middlemen of the Industry -- Chapter 5: Publishing Power Houses -- Chapter 6: The Macmillans: A...

1. Labor Resists -- 2. Early Nineteenth-Century Changes -- 3. Examples of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Business Ethics in America -- 4. Rise of Industrialization -- 5. Ethics of the Firm and Strategic Behavior -- 6. John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil -- 7. Rise of the Big Retail Merchants -- 8....

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Early History of Inflation Measurement -- Chapter 3: The Launch of the Index of Retail Prices -- Chapter 4: Improving the Index -- Chapter 5: The RPI in the Political Sphere -- Chapter 6: Reviews of the RPI and the Loss of National Statistics Status --...