This report highlights the urgent need to promote refugee self-reliance in Sub-Saharan Africa through inclusive policies, economic participation, and development-focused aid.
Strengthening Social Protection and Labor for a World in Transition
The State of Social Protection Report provides the most recent evidence of social protection in developing countries with the purpose of informing policy and monitor progress towards universal coverage. The objective of the report is to highlight the importance of social protection as a global priority to protect the poor and vulnerable.
Supporting Successful Migration in Europe and Central Asia
This book seeks to enhance the understanding of migration in Europe and Central Asia, and to propose policy solutions tailored to the diversity of migration experiences and challenges in the region, to better leverage labor mobility for all parties.
Organizations and Society examines the costs and consequences of social life that is dominated by rational control characteristic of bureaucratic organizations large and small. Students of all interests-those who wish to run organizations someday, study them, or simply understand their importance in the contemporary social order-will benefit from the insights of this text.
Immigrant laborers who came to the New South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found themselves poised uncomfortably between white employers and the Black working class, a liminal and often precarious position. Campaigns to recruit immigrants primarily aimed to suppress Black agency and mobility. If that failed, both planters ......
When Horace Greeley published his famous imperative, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country," the frontier was already synonymous with a distinctive type of idealized American masculinity. But Greeley's exhortation also captured popular sentiment surrounding changing ideas of American boyhood; for many educators, politicians, and ......
The Contribution to the Mining History of the United States by EmigrantCornish Miners - the Men Called Cousin Jacks
The hands of Cornish miners bore scars of one of the most sophisticated traditions of hard-rock mining in the world. Toughened "Cousin Jacks" brought generations of toilsome underground experience to the Americas from one of the oldest mining regions of the world. Once here, their skill with granite and ore won their fame as the industrial elite ......
Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union
This account of the formation of United Auto Workers' Union shows how the gains workers made were not easy or inevitable, but required strategic and tactical sophistication as well as concerted action. An oral history is included.
