The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from
Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs …

The book proposes the construction of a different and more voluntary future. It maintains that
the processes that perpetuate relative or absolute poverty for more than one thousand …

This book is based on the results of over two decades of field research on cities and towns of
Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. The connections …

In der soziologischen Beschäftigung mit Arbeitslosigkeit in europäischen Ländern wird
zunehmend auf Arbeitsformen verwiesen, die sich jenseits von Lohnarbeit finden. Dieser …

The existence of a traditional society is a general assumption held not only by some
ethnologists but also by many development planners who blame traditional society for …

Der Begriff „Entwicklung “ist zwar in aller Munde, was aber unter dem Begriff zu verstehen
ist, darüber gibt es keinen Konsens, weder unter Experten noch unter Entwicklungspolitikern …

Zur Entwicklungssoziologie hat es seit langer Zeit keine grundlegende Einführung gegeben,
die letzte war jene vom Autor selbst (ID 9/77). Bei der Lektüre dieses Werkes merkt man, wie …

Inside the Third World Village Page 1 Page 2 INSIDE THE THIRD WORLD VILLAGE This book
is about everyday life in a contemporary Egyptian village and the struggle to survive under …

The urgent basic problems facing world society today include poverty, growing inequality
within societies, and exclusion of broad groups of society from social decision-making …

In the two decades following the Second World War, the capitalist world-economy
experienced the greatest boom in its history. This boom came to an end toward the close of …