Nachituti’s Gift challenges conventional theories of economic development with a compelling comparative case study of inland fisheries in Zambia and Congo from pre- to postcolonial times. Neoclassical development models conjure a simple, abstract progression from wealth held in people to money or commodities; instead, Gordon argues, primary social networks and oral charters like “Nachituti’s Gift” remained decisive long after the rise of intensive trade and market activities. Interweaving oral traditions, songs, and interviews as well as extensive archival research, Gordon’s lively tale is at once a subtle analysis of economic and social transformations, an insightful exercise in environmental history, and a revealing study of comparative politics. Honorable Mention, Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association “A powerful portrayal of the complexity, fluidity, and subtlety of Lake Mweru fishers’ production strategies . . . . Natchituti’s Gift adds nuance and evidence to some of the most important and sophisticated conversations going on in African studies today.”—Kirk Arden Hoppe, International Journal of African Historical Studies “A lively and intelligent book, which offers a solid contribution to ongoing debates about the interplay of the politics of environment, history and economy.”—Joost Fontein, Africa “Well researched and referenced . . . . [Natchituti’s Gift] will be of interest to those in a wide variety of disciplines including anthropology, African Studies, history, geography, and environmental studies.”—Heidi G. Frontani, H-SAfrica

Nachituti's Gift: Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture)

Business & Money

Gordon, David M.

Economics

University of Wisconsin Press

When Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment in August 1920, giving women the right to vote, one group of women expressed bitter disappointment and vowed to fight against this feminist disease. Why this fierce and extended opposition? In Splintered Sisterhood, Susan Marshall argues that the women of the antisuffrage movement mobilized not as threatened homemakers, but as influential political strategists.

Three distinguished economists challenge the assumptions of Reaganomics, offering a twenty-one-point program for economic recovery

Beyond the Waste Land: A Democratic Alternative to Economic Decline

Bowles, Samuel

Weisskopf, Thomas E.

Anchor Books

Beyond the Waste Land: A Democratic Alternative to Economic Decline (The Anchor Library of Economics)

DOUBLEDAY

Segmented Work, Divided Workers presents a restatement and expansion of the theory of labor segmentation by three of its founding scholars. The authors argue that divisions with the US working class are rooted in a segmentation of jobs since World War II. They explain the origins of job segmentation through a careful and systematic historical analysis of changes in the labor process and the structure of labor markets since the early 1800s. this analysis builds, in turn, upon hypotheses about successive stages in the history of capitalist development. Segmented Work, Divided Workers integrates this economics analysis with a careful historial appreciation of the complexity of working-class experience in the United States.

Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The historical transformation of labor in the United States

History

Edwards, Richard

Reich, Michael

Americas

Cambridge University Press

Theories of poverty and underemployment;: Orthodox, radical, and dual labor market perspectives

Lexington Books

Theories of Poverty and Underemployment

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

D.C. Heath & Co.

Problems in Political Economy: An Urban Perspective

Describes the link between a bloated corporate management structure and American workers' declining real wages, arguing that this overstaffed bureaucracy is causing America to lose its competitive edge and calling for a complete overhaul of our labor-management practices. 10,000 first printing.

FAT AND MEAN: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial "Downsizing"

Free Press

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