Each volume in the widely-successful Working Americans series focuses on a particular type of American and illustrates what life was like for that group from the 1800s to the present time. The volumes are arranged into decade-long chapters, each introducing to the reader three individuals or...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Globalisation, capitalist crises and Turkey -- Interpretations of globalisation -- Globalisation, homogenisation and global inequalities -- Periodic crises and capitalism -- Globalisation and TNCs --...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction / David A. Wise and Richard Woodbury -- 1. Trends in Pension Cash-Out at Job Change and the Effects on Long-Term Outcomes / Philip Armour, Michael D. Hurd, and Susann Rohwedder -- Comment: James M. Poterba -- 2. Liquidity in Retirement Savings...

This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in sustainability policy, this collection's...

Living under Austerity -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Note on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction - Crisis and Austerity -- Part I - The Political Dimension of the Crisis -- Chapter 1 - The "Illegitimacy" of Foreign Loans: Greece, the Great Powers, and Foreign Debt in the Long...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- 1 The complexity of measuring indigenous wellbeing -- Why the handbook -- Handbook structure -- 2 Understanding wellbeing -- The importance of wellbeing -- Theories of wellbeing --...

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction and Summary of Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa: A Multifaceted Economic Approach -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Summary of Individual Studies -- 2.1 Part I. Child Poverty and...

This collection focuses on the multiple consequences of neoliberal policies in Chile and places its "showcase" status and its re-democratization process into serious question. The volume argues that breaking the status quo is possible, urgent and necessary.