Political scientist Immanuel Ness thoroughly investigates the use of guest workers in the United States, the largest recipient of migrant labor in the world. Ness argues that the use of migrant labor is increasing in importance and represents despotic practices calculated by key U.S. business...

This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they have affected the formulation and application...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: A NEW GROWTH NARRATIVE -- ONE: The Most Technologically Progressive Decade of the Century -- TWO: The Interwar Years -- THREE: The Second World War -- FOUR: The Golden Age and Beyond -- FIVE: The Information Technology Boom -- SIX: Fin de...

This volume explains how economic rights are realized--or violated--in Canada and the United States. Contributors analyze the philosophy, law, and politics of these rights and discuss specific issues such as poverty, health care, and the rights of people with disabilities.

Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Designing Energy and Environmental Policies -- 2 Structure of the Intertemporal General Equilibrium Model -- 3 Modeling Consumer Behavior -- 4 Modeling Producer Behavior -- 5 Government and the Rest of the World -- 6 Model Solution --...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 ''The Great Compression'' -- 2 1971: Affluence Challenged and Restored -- 3 1972: The Last Election of the 1960s -- 4 OPEC and the Trade Unionism of the Developing World -- 5 1975: ''Capitalism Is on the Run'' -- 6 1976: Morality and Economy...

Examines the current conditions before looking back to the events of the last century - The Great Depression, the 1970s oil crisis, the party-for-the-rich atmosphere of the 1980's and the emergence of the new economy

This study describes in detail the potential for the effective international transfer of Japanese management and production systems. It is the result of a ten-year research project by a joint US/Japanese study team