New Labour's Countryside

New Labour's Countryside
Author: Michael Woods
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2008-09-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781861349323

This book analyses the specific ways in which family lives have changed and how they have been affected by the major structural and cultural changes of the second half of the twentieth century.--

How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China

How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China
Author: Rachel Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2002-09-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521005302

Her analysis focuses on the human experiences and strategies that precipitate shifts in national and local policies for economic development; she also examines the responses of migrants, nonmigrants, and officials to changing circumstances, obstacles, and opportunities. This pioneering study is rich in original source materials and anecdotes and also offers useful, comparative examples from other developing countries."--Jacket.

Blood and Oranges

Blood and Oranges
Author: Christopher Lawrence
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 085745143X

A compelling account of the intersection of globalization and neo-racism in a rural Greek community, this book describes the contradictory political and economic development of the Greek countryside since its incorporation into the European Union, where increased prosperity and social liberalization have been accompanied by the creation of a vulnerable and marginalized class of immigrant laborers. The author analyzes the paradoxical resurgence of ethnic nationalism and neo-racism that has grown in the wake of European unification and addresses key issues of racism, neoliberalism and nationalism in contemporary anthropology.

Urban Renaissance?

Urban Renaissance?
Author: Imrie, Rob
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2003-05-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1861343809

This book documents and assesses the core of New Labour's approach to the revitalisation of cities, that is, the revival of citizenship, democratic renewal, and the participation of communities to spear head urban change. In doing so, the book explores the meaning, and relevance, of 'community' as a focus for urban renaissance. It interrogates the conceptual and ideological content of New Labour's conceptions of community and, through the use of case studies, evaluates how far, and with what effects, such conceptions are shaping contemporary urban policy and practice. The book is an important text for students and researchers in geography, urban studies, planning, sociology, and related disciplines. It will also be of interest to officers working in local and central government, voluntary organisations, community groups, and those with a stake in seeking to enhance democracy and community involvement in urban policy and practice.

Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-century England

Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-century England
Author: Nicola Verdon
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780851159065

The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an under-researched issue. Verdon directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The involvement of women in the rural labour market as farm servants, as day labourers in agriculture, and as domestic workers, are all examined using a wide range of printed and unpublished sources from across England. The roles village women performed in the informal rural economy (household labour, gathering resources and exploiting systems of barterand exchange) are also assessed. Changes in women's economic opportunities are explored, alongside the implications of region, age, marital status, number of children in the family and local custom; women's economic contribution to the rural labouring household is established as a critical part of family subsistence, despite criticism of such work and the rise in male wages after 1850. NICOLA VERDON is a Research Fellow in the Rural History Centre, University of Reading.

Welfare Reform in Rural Places

Welfare Reform in Rural Places
Author: Paul Milbourne
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1849509190

Intends to significantly extend previous research work on the rural impacts of national welfare reform and position it in a broader context. This title provides a comprehensive and comparative account of the rural dimensions of welfare in a number of developed countries.

Rural

Rural
Author: Michael Woods
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2010-10-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113691918X

'This excellent book delivers an up-to-date reading of the current literature in rural geography. It provides a commentary on the theoretical development of rural studies and is supported by apposite case studies. Rural conveys the excitement, diversity and depth of rural geography to students in a challenging but clear manner, enabling them to engage successfully with the discipline at an advanced level.'-Dr Richard Yarwood, University of Plymouth, UK.

Rural Cooperation in Europe

Rural Cooperation in Europe
Author: Edward Kasabov
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015-12-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137348895

This collection analyses various European rural locations through a relational lens, attending to key aspects and dimensions of the 'relational rurals' such as cooperation, contestation, solidarity and consensus. By observing rural settings in such terms, contributors are able to rethink European rurality from a distinctly relational perspective.

Rural Policing and Policing the Rural

Rural Policing and Policing the Rural
Author: Rob I. Mawby
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 131706075X

Policing reveals much about rural society. It refers to the way that the police, the public and other agencies regulate themselves and each other according to the dominant ideals of society. This can be formally, through the ever-growing spectrum of policing partnerships in neo-liberal countries, or informally, through the performance and enforcement of moral codes and values. This book draws on international inter-disciplinary perspectives to examine the range and consequences of policing across different rural localities. Rural Policing and Policing the Rural is organised into two sections: the first examines who is policing rural areas, while the second examines the nature of rural policing by considering, on the one hand, the policing of rural space and, on the other, how ideas of rurality are regulated. In doing so this book provides a survey of rural policing that will be valuable to academics, students, policy makers and those policing rural places.

Labour and Labour Markets Between Town and Countryside (Middle Ages-19th Century)

Labour and Labour Markets Between Town and Countryside (Middle Ages-19th Century)
Author: Bruno Blondé
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Labour and labour markets in and between town and countryside have been puzzling to economic historians for generations. This book brings together specialists in economic and social history to explore a series of key mechanisms related to the organisation and interdependence of urban and rural labour markets. A variety of issues, such as distribution, specialisation, and division of tasks, economies of urbanisation and -(conversely) rural de-localisation, (temporary) mobility of labour and commercial links, organisation of working time, methods of remuneration, gendered specialisation of activities, are dealt with in this book from the viewpoint of (changing) relationships between rural and urban labour markets. The renewed interest of social scientists in this research field is reflected by the diversity of the cases analysed according to geographical, demographic, and economic and political conditions. This book, therefore, provides interesting opportunities for a comparative reading of the significance of labour in the organisation of societies in the course of the centuries that preceded and led up to the 'industrial age' in Western Europe.