In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book...

‘Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy. Readers will be in good hands.’ -Edmund Phelps, Columbia University, USA, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics ‘This is perhaps the best and most scholarly contribution to...

When Professor Morishima's book Why has Japan 'Succeeded'? (1982) was published, Japan was still a country of 'capitalism from above'. For the past ten years the country's economy has faltered and declined. It is turning towards 'capitalism from below' despite Japan's weak democracy. This...

Preface -- Ch 1 Governmental Administration and the Security of Romania in a Global Context -- Ch 2 Geopolitics and Security by the Black Sea: The Strategic Options of Romania and Moldova.- Ch 3 Transfer and Diffusion of New Technologies within the Supply Chain of multinational companies with...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Measuring the Performance of Knowledge Value-Added in University-Industry Collaborative Innovation -- Chapter 3: Efficiency Evaluation of Knowledge Flow in University-Industry Collaborative Innovation in China -- Chapter 4: Big Five Personality Traits and...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Economics of State Fragility -- 3. Zimbabwe’s First Decade: Building the One-Party State and Controlling the Economy -- 4. Regime Interests and the Failure of Economic Reform in the 1990s -- 5. Regime Survival and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme -- 6. Regime...

1. Introduction: mortgages and annuities in historical perspective -- 2. Mortgages and the English peasantry c.1250-c.1350 -- 3. Mortgages raised by rural English copyhold tenants 1605-1735 -- 4. Mortgages and the Kentish yeoman in the seventeenth century -- 5. Why the equity of redemption? 6....

1. Introduction,- 2. Theories of Discrimination -- 3. The Development of the Printing Industry: Workers' and Employers' Organisation -- 4. Missed Opportunities: The Failure of Union Solidarity in the Struggle for Control of the Labour Process -- 5. Gender or Skill: The Continuation of Segregated...