Starting Fieldwork: An Introduction to Qualitative Research in New Zealand is a practical, straightforward guide to the most commonly used techniques of qualitative research. Firmly anchored in a New Zealand context, the book is well informed by theoretical and ethical considerations. The book is designed to appeal to students across a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, criminology, education, health studies, psychology, and sociology. Accessible in its style and structure, the book is aimed squarely at those who need advice on how to begin this increasingly important method of research.

Starting Fieldwork : An Introduction to Qualitative Research Work in New Zealand

Politics & Social Sciences

Tolich, Martin

Davidson, Carl

Social Sciences

Oxford Univ. Pr.

The emergence of the global grassroots economic structural reform movement known as the Solidarity Economy. This book contain the core papers, discussion and debates on the topic at the U.S. Social Forum of 10,000 people in Atlanta in the summer of 2007.

Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet

Business & Money

ChangeMaker Publications

International Trade and Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Davidson and Matusz provide much-needed theoretical underpinnings for understanding the labor market consequences of international trade. Traditional models of international trade assume that labor markets adjust instantaneously to trade shocks . Thus, these traditional theoretical models assume away the consequence of greatest concern to policy-makers: unemployment. Davidson and Matusz update international trade theory to include labor market dynamics and unemployment, and present empirical evidence to show the consistency between their theoretical predictions and actual outcomes. Their models are of more than academic interest. They allow the authors to document the effects of trade and trade policies on low-skilled workers in different countries with different labor market policies and institutions. Moreover, they provide important insights into the relative merits of policies such as trade adjustment assistance, wage subsidies, and job training in aidi! ng those displaced or otherwise harmed by trade liberalization.

Matusz, Steven J.

Economics

W E Upjohn Inst for

During the past two decades, the economic fortunes of less-skilled workers in the United States and Europe have sunk at a time when there has been a boom in international trade. This has sparked considerable debate among those interested in trade policy and labor markets over the impact of trade on labor-market outcomes, and in particular, the impact of globalization on low-skill, low-wage workers. Davidson and Matusz tackle these questions by extending the traditional analysis of international trade to allow for labor markets characterized by workers whose labor-market experiences are punctuated by spells of involuntary unemployment. They demonstrate that such extensions are easily accomplished and that they provide valuable new insights that withstand empirical scrutiny. And perhaps most importantly, argue Davidson and Matusz, such models offer the appropriate venue in which to carry out policy analysis aimed at determining the best way to compensate those who suffer economic loss as a result of changing trade patterns. Two views on the impacts of trade liberalization on labor markets prevail. Free trade proponents argue that by expanding our export markets we make it easier for the unemployed to return to work sooner. Those opposing freer trade worry about workers who lose their jobs as imports flow into the United States, or they see the wages of the low-skilled workers eroded as employers have difficulty competing with foreign competitors using workers paid third-world wages. In addition, say the authors, academic economists seem unconcerned about the jobs created or destroyed by changes in trade policy. In fact, debate about trade policy among economists usually ignores the impact of trade on employment. Instead, they typically argue that fully flexible wages and other factor prices allow the economy to maintain full employment of all resources, including labor. In response, Davidson and Matusz develop simple yet compelling models that allow for documented differences in labor markets across countries in order to investigate the impact of trade and trade policies on society's underclass. These are based on several micro-based models of unemployment that have emerged over the past 30 years, and they allow the authors to account for differing degrees of labor-market flexibility. The models allow examination of the impact on the poor of trade's effects on job opportunities and on the distribution of income when unemployment is present. The same models are then used to study the relative merits of policies such as trade adjustment assistance, wage subsidies for dislocated workers, job training subsidies, and other policies aimed at helping workers displaced by changes in the pattern of trade.

During the late 1960s, when students all over American were practicing direct democracy on campus by waging massive student strikes and taking over their university buildings, the three essays collected here for the first time were among the most widely read pieces of student radical literature. Their author, Carl Davidson, was national vice-president and inter-organizational secretary of the SDS. Starting from the sociologists' conclusion that modern universities are “knowledge factories” designed to serve the Military Industrial Complex, Davidson, in these essays, explored various analogies and connections between students and the working class and outlined a theory of student syndicalism that characterized a critical phase in the development of SDS. Drawing not only on classical Marxism but also on IWW and anarcho-syndicalist ideas as well as on newer revolutionary currents such as the Dutch Provos and French Situationists, these writings were among the most original and influential documents of the American New Left in its dynamic first decade, and remain an unexcelled “how-to” manual for insurgent students seeking to gain some measure of control over their lives. In a new afterward, the author situates the rise of student syndicalism in its historic context, while reflecting on the meaning of these writings for today.

The New Radicals in The Multiversity and Other Sds Writings on Student Syndicalism (Sixties Series)

Politics & Government

Charles H. Kerr

A Collection of 12 essays featuring some of the most creative and controversial work of the U.S. New Left of the late 1960s. Most items are difficult to find, and in one important case, appears here for the first time.

Revolutionary Youth and the New Working Class

History

Lulu Press, Inc.

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Starting Fieldwork : An Introduction to Qualitative Research Work in New Zealand

Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet

International Trade and Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

International Trade and Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

The New Radicals in The Multiversity and Other Sds Writings on Student Syndicalism (Sixties Series)

Revolutionary Youth and the New Working Class