Introduction: Current Conditions of Work and Family in Japan -- 1 The Factors of Fertility Decline in Japan -- 2 The Japanese Working Custom and Women’s Employment Participation -- 3 Work and Family in Japan from the Comparative Perspective -- 4 Family Formation and Disparity -- 5 The...

1. Introduction- Robert Skidelsky and Nan Craig -- 2. The Future of Work - Robert Skidelsky -- Part I: Work in the Past -- 3. Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Part 1 - Richard Donkin -- 4. Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Part 2 - Richard Sennett -- 5. Patterns and Types of Work in...

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....

Chapter 1: Introduction; Gabriele Capelli, David Mitch -- Part I: Global religious activity and schooling.-Chapter 2: Religion, colonialism and missions in Africa; Felix Meier zu Selhausen -- Chapter 3: The long legacy of missions in Latin America; Felipe Valencia -- Part II: Colonial legacies,...

1. 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Trends and the Current State of Communism and Post-Communism in Europe and Asia -- 2. A Taxonomy of Post-Communist Economies after 30 Years of Reforms -- 3. The Central Asian Countries’ Economies in the Twenty-First Century -- 4. The...

1. Chapter 1: A historian’s introduction to paleoclimatology -- Chapter 2: A hard row to hoe. Climate change from the crop perspective -- Chapter 3: Who follows the elephant will have problems. Thought on modelling Roman responses to climate (changes) -- Chapter 4: Famines, demographic crises...

Chapter 1: Global Recession and Microfinance Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 2: Are microfinance institutions unscathed from the recession? – An empirical reconsideration -- Chapter 3: Microfinance as a Strategy to Curb the Global Recession -- Chapter 4: Developing...

Chapter 1: Workers and Margins: Grasping Erasures and Possibilities within Management Studies -- Section 1: Conceptual Aspects on Workers and Margins -- Chapter 2: Skill Formation and Precarious Labour: The Role of Industrial Training Institutes in India 1950-2018 -- Chapter 3: Labor Beyond the...

Chapter 1. The Definition and Basic Facts of SNEP -- Chapter 2. The Determinants and Characteristics of SNEP -- Chapter 3. The Daily Lives and Job Searches of SNEP -- Chapter 4. The Past, Present, and Future of SNEP -- Chapter 5. Questions and Answers About SNEP -- References -- Index

1. Introduction: Underdog Entrepreneurs Are Everywhere -- Part I The Outsider Problem -- 2. Being on the Outside of Powerful Mainstream Networks -- 3. Lacking Relevant Know-How -- 4. Being Subject to Stereotype-Driven Discrimination and Stereotype Threat -- Part II Code-Breaking Skills -- 5. A...