Sozialwissenschaften

Right to Useful Unemployment

Ivan Illich

In this political essay, Ivan Illich calls for the right to useful unemployment: a positive, constructive, and even optimistic concept dealing with that activity by which people are useful to them...

Outline of a Theory of Practice

Pierre Bourdieu

Development Guide

National Children's Bureau National Children's Bureau

<p>Originally published in 1977, this best-selling guide offered a means of keeping a basic, continuous record of a child's physical, social, emotional and intellectual development. Incl...

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History

Finance & Development, December 1973

Capitalism and Modern Social Theory

Anthony Giddens

Born to Fail?

Peter Wedge / Hilary Prosser

<p>Based on the National Child Development Study, which followed the progress from birth to maturity of all children born in the UK during 3-9 March, 1958, this ebook is about children and a...

Tools for Conviviality

Ivan Illich

A work of seminal importance, this book presents Ivan Illich's penetrating analysis of the industrial mode of production which characterises our contemporary world. The conviviality for which ...

Road to Wigan Pier

In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed a...

Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings

Emile Durkheim

Founding of New Societies

Hartz elaborates his widly discussed "e;fragment theory"e; of new societies and projects some of its implications for the modern age.

Learning for Leadership

A.K. Rice

1961

The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism

Liu

This text reinterprets a misunderstood and overlooked epoch of the Asian American experience, the Asian American Movement (AAM). The authors argue that, contrary to the common view of the movement...

Latin American Telecommunications

Martinez

<span><span><span>Latin American Telecommunications: Telefónica's Conquest offers an excellent overview of the political, economic, and social factors in Spain and Latin Ame...

Psicología y economía

Tomás Bonavía Martín / Ismael Quintanilla Pardo

Como trabajadores y consumidores, constantemente tomamos decisiones en casa, en la empresa, en la tienda, en los restaurantes o en los centros de ocio. ¿Las tomamos racionalmente?, ¿sería de es...

Zwischen Familie und Klassenlehrer

Gunther Graßhoff

Gunther Graßhoff untersucht fallrekonstruktiv das komplexe Zusammenwirken von schulischen und familialen Generationsbeziehungen von jugendlichen Waldorfschülern. Während die Waldorfschule an ei...