Analyses the results of a major household survey of labour market conditions carried out in Jordan in 2010. It cover topics that are essential to understanding the conditions leading to the Arab Spring, including the persistence of high unemployment, low and stagnant female participation rates, and early retirement among prime-age male workers.
Presents the life-worlds and personal experiences of workers and employees in three enterprises in East Berlin at the moment of political and economic upheaval. This book sets out in 1989 at the moment of the fall of the Berlin Wall, witnessing the confrontations with the market economy and examining the reinterpretations of the socialist past.
The book examines the power of nationalism to solder nation-states back together rather than break them apart. In this innovative, cross-continental comparison of nation-building in Germany and Vietnam, the focus is on their shared experience of division, communism and regional integration.
