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The Role of 'Informal' Economies in the Post-Soviet World
The End of Transition?
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
This book challenges the accepted notion that the transition from the command economy to market based systems is complete across the post-Soviet space. While it is noted that different political economies have developed in such states, such as Russia’s ‘managed democracy’, events such as Ukraine...
To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
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Informal Work in Developed Nations
Series: Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics
Almost everyone residing in a developed nation knows someone who has engaged in paid work that is licit but not reported to the government (e.g., babysitting, gardening, construction, financial consulting). But while most acknowledge that such work is helpful to the individuals involved, and that...
Published July 6th 2009 by Routledge
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Tourism and Innovation
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
Tourism is often described as an industry with high growth rates, and it is subject to radical change in how it is produced and consumed. However, there is still a relatively poor understanding of how such changes are brought about – that is, through innovation. This book is the first to...
Published February 6th 2008 by Routledge
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Poverty and the Third Way
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
What is poverty and how can it be tackled? Taking the Third Way out of its narrow party political context, this book argues that it is necessary to harness work beyond employment in order to pave a Third Way beyond capitalism and socialism. The outcome is a thought-provoking new approach towards...
Published November 20th 2002 by Routledge
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Behavioral Factors and Interventions in Pain and Musculoskeletal Disorders
A Special Issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Behavioral factors affect both the etiology and the prognosis of musculoskeletal disorders. Application of behavioral interventions contributes to the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders and to the reduction of pain, disability, and sick leave in patients with established disorders. Focusing on...
Published February 28th 2001 by Psychology Press
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Natural Ventilation in Atria for Environmental and Smoke Control
An Introductory Guide (BR 375)
This guide introduces the key principles of natural environmental ventilation and smoke control in the event of fire....
Published August 31st 1999 by IHS - BRE Press
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Informal Employment in Advanced Economies
Implications for Work and Welfare
Re-Placing Informal Employment challenges many of the popular myths surrounding informal economic activities, and offers a radical reassesment of their extent, growth, location and nature. The book uses case studies from the UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the US and Canada to challenge: * the...
Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
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Consumer Services and Economic Development
Consumer Services have been viewed as parasitic activities, dependent on other sectors of the economy for their viability and vitality. Yet local economic policy is now looking towards consumer services to solve severe economic problems. The rapid expansion of the service sector is now a principal...
Published April 16th 1997 by Routledge
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Critical Security Studies
Concepts And Strategies
This text takes issue with arguments that security studies is a discipline of limited use in making sense of the post-Cold War world. It argues that many of the most interesting theoretical issues in international relations can most usefully be studied through a prism labelled "security studies"....
Published April 9th 1997 by Routledge
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Ecosystems Processes in Antarctic Ice-free Landscapes
Contributing to the understanding of ecosystem processes in the extreme environment, these proceedings cover: overviews representing a broad geographical and temporal perspective; soil and rock habitats and terrestrial flora and fauna; aquatic environments; and human impacts....
Published December 31st 1996 by Taylor & Francis