Drawing upon research from a variety of disciplines, the author examines the push toward privatisation in diverse national settings, its profound impact on organised labour, and the often innovative responses of workers and their unions in the affected industries.
Explains the radical reconfiguring of Jewish education in England in historical and sociocultural terms. This book explores the transformations that took place in every aspect of Jewish education: curriculum, religious/ideological orientation, school format (afternoon classes vs day schools), funding (private vs state), and more.
Describing Irish as 'female' and 'bestial' is a practice dating back to twelfth century, while for women, inside and outside of Ireland, their association with children and other 'savages' has had a long history, this study examines a tradition of Irish women writers deploying 'natural' as a gesture to paternalist regulation of female energies.
This book follows the work of a group of right-wing nationalist writers from 1890 to 1960, whose writings both paved the way for the rise of Nazism and continued to stimulate debate about German cultural and political identity after 1945. The volume features studies of Hans Grimm, Kolbenheyer, Schafer, Strauss, von Munchhausen and Binding.
A collection of essays that is conceived not as a summary of past endeavours but as the beginning of an attempt to present a sense of the wholeness of a distinctively English literature from Beowulf to Spenser.
Why would a poem about courtly love remain so popular for so long? This book analyses literary and historical publishing evidence about "The Assembly of Ladies", to show that poem has remained in print not for its literary merit, but because its anonymity has allowed it to be appropriated for their own particular social and political causes.
Examining literary production from eleventh century until present, this title argues that the body in North Africa and Latin America serves as a physical and symbolic terrain upon which textual, national, racial and linguistic identities are vectored and through which postcolonial and hegemonic antagonisms of power and identity are resolved.
The intersection between space and narrative has often aroused critical interest, especially in cross-fertilization of language and imagination. In this title, the essays address ways in which three generations of British and American artists responded to these ontological changes, as they were both literally and metaphorically 'thrown' on roads.
Focuses on how development-oriented non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are suited to the dual development process of improving the wellbeing and empowerment of the poor and other marginalized people (especially women) in Africa and other developing countries, focusing on Uganda.
What is Horace's real motive for lecturing on miserly greed in his first satire? Who is the modern Hollywood star whom Horace most closely resembled? What is Horace doing while Damasippus rattles on, recounting the words of his guru Stertinius, in Satires 2.3? This title deals with these questions.
Recent years have seen a great debate and much progress in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Headway has been made in the development of the CSR agenda and dissemination of management models. This title offers a re-reading of fundamental issues for business management such as the stakeholder relationship, and meaning of success in business.
Focuses on the ideas of W.B. Yeats and explores his thinking on a wide range of fundamental subjects. In this book, the author considers Yeats' adherence to various anti-empirical belief systems and the transformation of his view of sex as largely a romantic concern to his later more 'earthy' perspective.
Touching on a host of central themes in author's writing - emigration, race, performance, poverty, travel, nationality and globalization, this volume covers each of the author's publications and includes a substantial interview with the author. It is suitable for scholars of the Irish novel.
Tells about the ethics of leadership. This book examines central theories of leadership and their ethical content, from charismatic leadership to transformational and servant leadership. It argues that ethical leadership is best understood in the context of virtues practised in plural communities, focusing on an ethics of responsibility.
Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. In this title, the essays explore the complex and multi-layered identities of European cities.
(Re)Collecting the Past
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