A high percentage of many raw and semi-finished materials critical to U.S. manufacturing are imported. China is the controlling producer of 11 of these materials and has instituted export restrictions that have led to two-tier pricing, creating pressure to move manufacturing to China. This...

Although the cashless society has been predicted for at least twenty years, the new forms of card-based and software based electronic money may prove to be a partial alternative to the current forms of payment. This study examines these emerging electronic money systems and their possible...

Lovett (Tulane Law School), Eckes (a former commissioner of the U.S. International Commission during the Reagan and Bush I administrations), and Brinkman (international economics, Portland State U.) evaluate the evolution of U.S. trade policy, focusing on the period from the establishment of the Gen

In 2014, the arrest and detention of thousands of desperate young migrants at the southwest border of the United States exposed the U.S. government's shadowy juvenile detention system, which had escaped public scrutiny for years. This book tells the story of six Central American and Mexican...

Unfinished Business -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Case for Paid Family Leave -- 2. The Politics of Family Leave, Past and Present -- 3. Challenges of Legislative Implementation -- 4. Paid Family Leave and California Business -- 5. The Reproduction of Inequality -- 6....

ZONED IN THE USA -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An American Model of Land-Use Control -- 1. America's Housing Trademark -- 2. How the System Works -- 3. How Others Do It -- 4. Roots -- 5. American Beginnings in a Comparative Context -- 6. The Formative Years of American Zoning...

Household Accounts -- Contents -- A Note on Household Accounts and Its Preparation -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Living on the Margin": Working-Class Marriages and Family Survival Strategies -- 2. "Cooperative Conflict": Gender, Generation, and Consumption in Working-Class Families...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Coryright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Visible Hand of Government in U.S. Credit Markets -- 3. Discrimination, Redlining, and Financial Restructuring in Business...

Cover -- ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:EXCHANGE RATE ECONOMICS -- Half title -- Copyright1 -- Title -- Copyright2 -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Exchange Rates and Prices -- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION -- Neo-Classical Theory and the Price...

Cover -- Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: Sweatshop Usa: The American Sweatshop In Global And Historical Perspective -- Producing The Sweatshop -- 1. "A Foreign Method of Working":...