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Labor, Health, and Educational Economics

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The Well-Being of the Elderly in Asia

A Four-Country Comparative Study

Edited by Albert Isaac Hermalin
Subjects: Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Asian Studies, Sociology, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management

Examines the effects of social and economic change on the aging populations of Asia

Slaves to Fashion

Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops

By Robert Ross
Subjects: American Studies, Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Political Economy, Class Studies

A provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth

Market Dreams

Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic

By Elaine Susan Weiner
Subjects: Sociology, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, History, Russian History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Public Policy, Class Studies

How have women experienced the transition from socialism to market economy in Eastern Europe?

The Well-Being of Children and Families

Research and Data Needs

Edited by Arland Dee Thornton
Subjects: Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Gender Studies

An interdisciplinary examination of how well American families and children are faring at the start of the third millennium

Swallows and Settlers

The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria

By Thomas Gottschang & Diana Lary
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Presents both statistical analysis and the perspectives of individual migrants and their families on one of the largest migrations in the world

Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages

Rural Labor Markets in Colombia, 1975-1990

By Sutti Ortiz
Subjects: Anthropology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Latin American Studies, Sociology, Class Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

A close ethnographic study of how culture, power, gender, and institutions affect labor exchanges

The Economic Consequences of Immigration

Second Edition

By Julian Lincoln Simon
Subjects: Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, International Economics, Sociology, Political Science

Argues convincingly that immigration continues to benefit U.S. natives as well as most developed countries

Wealth, Work, and Health

Innovations in Measurement in the Social Sciences

By James Patrick Smith & Robert James Willis
Subjects: Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Sociology, Health & Medicine

Explores a multitude of perspectives, problems, and ways of measuring human behavior

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