Status Attainment in the Netherlands, 1811-1941
Author : Richard Lindert Zijdeman
Publisher : Richard L. Zijdeman
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 9064643911
Harvesting
Author : Sören Edvinsson
Publisher : Radboud University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9493296180
Book Description
This edited volume discusses the impact of several major databases containing historical longitudinal population data. The creation and development of these databases have greatly expanded research possibilities in history, demography, sociology, and other disciplines. The present collection includes seven contributions, on eight databases, that had a wide impact on research in various disciplines. Each database had its own unique genesis and readers are informed about how these databases have changed the course of research in historical demography and related disciplines, how settled findings were challenged or confirmed, and how innovative investigations were launched and implemented. The volume serves as an essential resource for scholars in the field of historical life course studies, offering insights into the transformative power of these databases and their potential for future advancements.
The Story of Work
Author : Jan Lucassen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 030026299X
Book Description
The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity’s busy labor throughout the ages. Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, Lucassen looks at the ways in which humanity organizes work: in the household, the tribe, the city, and the state. He examines how labor is split between men, women, and children; the watershed moment of the invention of money; the collective action of workers; and at the impact of migration, slavery, and the idea of leisure. From peasant farmers in the first agrarian societies to the precarious existence of today’s gig workers, this surprising account of both cooperation and subordination at work throws essential light on the opportunities we face today.
Living Together Apart?
Author : Miranda Henrica Maria Vervoort
Publisher : Netherlands Institute for Social Research
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Identity (Psychology)
ISBN :
Book Description
Together with the rise in ethnic residential concentration, attention for the potential negative consequences of ethnic concentration in the neighbourhood for ethnic minorities' integration has also increased in recent years. And although many neighbourhood interventions have been implemented, there is still a lack of scientific knowledge concerning the effects of ethnic residential concentration on ethnic minorities' integration. This dissertation seeks to expand current scientific knowledge and to contribute to the public debate by studying the effects of ethnic residential concentration on ethnic minorities' social contacts and language practices. The main results indicate that ethnic residential concentration is related to less social contact with natives, but more social contact with co-ethnics. Through these social contacts, ethnic residential concentration hinders ethnic minorities' majority language proficiency and use. Moreover, ethnic residential concentration is found to constrain the strength of ethnic minorities' social ties with natives and the rise in ethnic concentration partly explains the stagnation of ethnic minorities' social contacts with natives over time. Implications of these results are discussed.
Hisclass
Author : Marco H. D. van Leeuwen
Publisher : Universitaire Pers Leuven
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9058678571
Book Description
For the sake of comparability, it is advisable not to develop new class schemes but to use old ones. Yet presenting a new class scheme - HISCLASS - is exactly what this book does. Unlike existing historical schemes, HISCLASS is international, created for the purpose of making comparisons across different periods, countries and languages. Furthermore, it is linked to an international standard classification scheme for occupations - HISCO. The chapters in the book show how historical occupational titles classified in HISCO can form the building blocks of a social class scheme for past populations. The dimensions underlying classes are discussed. How, for instance, can manual work be distinguished from non-manual work? Skilled from non-skilled? And what did 'supervision' really mean?
Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security ?
Author : National Defense University (U S )
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
On August 24-25, 2010, the National Defense University held a conference titled “Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security?” to explore the economic element of national power. This special collection of selected papers from the conference represents the view of several keynote speakers and participants in six panel discussions. It explores the complexity surrounding this subject and examines the major elements that, interacting as a system, define the economic component of national security.
The Afghan Wars, 1839-42 and 1878-80
Author : Archibald Forbes
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 1892
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Violence and Social Orders
Author : Douglass Cecil North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521761735
Book Description
This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.
Colonial Policy and Practice
Author : John Sydenham Furnivall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108067980
Book Description
This influential 1948 study investigates the effects of colonial rule in Burma through comparison with the Dutch East Indies.
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Author : Erik Brynjolfsson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393239357
Book Description
The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").
