Intro -- LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT ISSUES -- LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT ISSUES -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: THE LABOR MARKET DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE CURRENT RECESSION* -- SUMMARY -- THE LABOR MARKET DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION --...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Depression and Response -- 1. Economic Crisis as Opportunity: The Great Depression as Seedbed for Radical Activism in Georgia, 1928-1930 -- 2. The Employment Crisis as Catalyst: Communist Activism and the Insurrection...

COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- APPENDIX -- 2 WORLD LABOUR FORCE STRUCTURE AND ITS EVOLUTION -- 2.1 Structure and characteristics -- 2.2 The main trends -- 2.3 Future outlook -- 3 GLOBALIZATION IN ANUNEQUAL WORLD -- 3.1 Asymmetric distribution of productive resources...

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For India's economic reforms policy to succeed, its programmes should be firmly anchored in the reality of the social and micro-institutional context-something our policy makers often regrettably ignore. To break out of 8 or 9 per cent growth rates, we need more appropriate skill sets,...

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