Talk : nothing to be done / Tom Boland -- Dialogue : focus groups with young and mature unemployed / Jennifer Yeager and Jonathan Culleton -- City : redundant workers, forgotten citizens? The case of Waterford Crystal / Josh Lalor -- Place : graceful living : the experience of unemployment and...

This book examines the doctrines that society is expected not to question, particularly the influence these beliefs have on business and the prosperity of the world as a whole, and offers a multidisciplinary approach to the effects of culture on cognitive strategies and professional methodologies.

"In the 1950s, the causal link between smoking and lung cancer surfaced in medical journals and mainstream media. Yet the best years for the Canadian cigarette industry were still to come, as per capita cigarette consumption rose steadily in the 1960s and 1970s. In Cigarette Nation, Daniel...