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Frontières en travail
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 224

Frontières en travail

Cet ouvrage rassemble des travaux qui analysent et décrivent ce qui arrive aujourd’hui aux frontières physiques de ces pays dont la proximité aux centres mondiaux du capitalisme réinvente le statut. De bords oubliés du monde, ces frontières désormais plantées sous les projecteurs des médias sont régulièrement montrées du doigt pour leur caractère crucial par les discours politiques. Mexique-USA, Maroc-Europe, ces lieux frontières sont devenus centraux, par la conjonction d’un double processus à bien des égards paradoxal. Car d’un côté, avec le renforcement d’un ensemble de dispositifs de fermeture et de contrôle du passage et du franchissement, ces frontières se v...

Introduction à l'économie politique de la santé
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 331

Introduction à l'économie politique de la santé

Cet ouvrage ambitionne d’expliquer comment interagissent les valeurs sociales, les théories économiques et les choix politiques qui structurent les systèmes de santé et déterminent les outils employés pour leur régulation. À partir d’une triple perspective : théorique, historique et critique, il dresse un panorama inédit appuyé sur des exemples concrets tirés des systèmes étrangers. Le système français est analysé au fil du texte et en annexe à la lumière des concepts évoqués. Il sera utile aux étudiants dont le cursus comporte une dimension santé ou qui préparent les concours administratifs, et à toute personne qui s’intéresse à ces sujets, omniprésents dans le débat public.

Pervasive Powers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Pervasive Powers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-09-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In an era of systemic crisis and of global critiques of the unsustainable perpetuation of capitalism, Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority critically questions the conditions for the maintenance and expansion of corporate power. The book explores empirical case studies in the realms of finance, urban policies, automobile safety, environmental risk, agriculture, and food in western democracies. It renews understanding of the power of big business, focusing on how the study of temporalities, of multi-sited influence and of sociotechnical tools is crucial to an analysis of the evolution of corporate authority. Drawing on different literatures, ranging from research on business ...

Dynamiques de l'erreur
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 380
No Such Thing as a Free Gift
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

No Such Thing as a Free Gift

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-20
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. Just under 5,000 more were established in 2011 alone. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create a world where billionaires wield more power over education policy, global agriculture, and global health than ever before. In No Such Thing as a Free Gift, author and academic Linsey McGoey puts this new golden age of philanthropy under the microscope-paying particular attention to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As large charitable organizations replace governments as the providers of social welfare, their largesse becomes suspect. The businesses fronting the money often create the very economic instability and inequality the foundations are purported to solve. We are entering an age when the ideals of social justice are dependent on the strained rectitude and questionable generosity of the mega-rich.

History of the Medical Profession
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 138

History of the Medical Profession

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 427

Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today has become a highly influential topic in its own right, commanding growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars have begun to explore the social life and political issues involved in the distribution and strategic use of not knowing. The field is growing fast and this handbook reflects this interdisciplinary field of study by drawing contributions from economics, sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, feminist studies, and related fields in order to serve as a seminal guide to the political, legal and social uses of ignorance in social and political life. Chapter 33 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available here: https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780415718967_oachapter33.pdf

Philanthropic Foundations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 518

Philanthropic Foundations

"Foundations are socially and politically significant, but this simple fact... has mostly been ignored by students of American history.... This collection represents an important contribution to an emerging field." -- Kenneth Prewitt, Social Science Research Council

Charity Begins At Home
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Charity Begins At Home

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991-10-27
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  • Publisher: Basic Books

This book is almost certain to anger the individuals it studies. Odendahl interviewed over 140 wealthy American philanthropists regarding their charitable activities, and through interpretative analysis, she suggests that the rich support upper-class charitable interests, such as private colleges, while basic human services are neglected. Despite politicians' rhetoric, the private sector is unlikely to compensate for cutbacks in government social programs, she concludes. Reasonable objections can be made to some of Odendahl's interpretations, especially those that stray into psychoanalysis (is guilt reduction really a motive toward philanthropy?), but her argument is so passionate that it merits discussion. Both public and academic libraries will want this.--From Library Journal.

Putting Meat on the American Table
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Putting Meat on the American Table

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

How did meat become such a popular food among Americans? And why did the popularity of some types of meat increase or decrease? Putting Meat on the American Table explains how America became a meat-eating nation - from the colonial period to the present. It examines the relationships between consumer preference and meat processing - looking closely at the production of beef, pork, chicken, and hot dogs. Roger Horowitz argues that a series of new technologies have transformed American meat - sometimes for the worse, sometimes for the better. He draws on detailed consumption surveys that shed new light on America's eating preferences - especially differences associated with income, rural versus urban areas, and race and ethnicity. Engagingly written, richly illustrated, and abundant with first-hand accounts and quotes from period sources, Putting Meat on the American Table will captivate general readers and interest all students of the history of food, technology, business, and American culture.