"This volume offers insights into ongoing, global socio-economic transformations by directing attention to the significance of labour, work, craft, community, social institutions, social movements and, emergent subjectivities in different parts of the world. This is in contrast to theories that...

"Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainable development has become the basis for a vast number of "green industries" from eco-tourism to carbon sequestration. In The "Greening" of Costa Rica, Ana Isla exposes the results of the economist's rejection of physical...

"Positively alarming" : Southern boosters, Piedmont Mills, and New England responses -- "Manufacturers surely cannot be expected to continue" : legislation, labor, and depression -- "A model manufacturing town" : moving to Alabama City -- "Small help" : unionization, capital mobility, and...