Authors:Colin C Williams, Colin C. Williams, Jan Windebank,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: human, geography, studies, routledge, third, way, poverty
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-12-27
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 0415257255
ISBN-13: 9780415257251

Poverty and the Third Way uncovers how New Labour’s employment-focussed approach causes, rather than resolves, poverty. Searching for another approach, the authors find the seeds of an alternative ’third way’ in radical European social democratic and ecological thought which seeks to transcend capitalism and socialism by developing work beyond employment. Exploring the reasons why such an approach is needed and how it can be implemented, the authors transcend the ’there is no alternative’ to capitalism school of thought dominant in many advanced economies by provi

Authors:Colin Haslam, John Williams, Karel Williams, Karel Wi
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: cases, history, analysis, cars
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1994-08
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1571818510
ISBN-13: 9781571818515

Car manufacturing involves the movement of large numbers of heavy, awkward objects incorporating some 20,000 parts, through a large number of short cycles. As to be expected the constant flow of the process involved is disrupted by both the inherent complexities of production and those of market restrictions. This study, a unique blend of analysis, history, and case studies, not only characterizes the essence of car manufacturing but also explains the likes between production, market conditions, and financial results and constraints. At the same time, it challenges fashionable views on the car

Authors:Colin Haslam, John Williams, Karel Williams, Karel Wi
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: cases, history, analysis, cars
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1994-11
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1571818502
ISBN-13: 9781571818508

Car manufacturing involves the movement of large numbers of heavy, awkward objects incorporating some 20,000 parts, through a large number of short cycles. As to be expected the constant flow of the process involved is disrupted by both the inherent complexities of production and those of market restrictions. This study, a unique blend of analysis, history, and case studies, not only characterizes the essence of car manufacturing but also explains the likes between production, market conditions, and financial results and constraints. At the same time, it challenges fashionable views on the car

Author: Colin Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: work, welfare, implications, economies, employment, advanced, informal
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 1998-10-20
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0415169607
ISBN-13: 9780415169608

Informal Employment in Advanced Economies challenges many of the popular myths surrounding informal economic activities. This book tackles the popular belief that informal employment is growing throughout the advanced economies; it challenges the myth that this work is undertaken mostly by marginalized groups such as the unemployed, poor and immigrants; it evaluates the dominant view that we should replace informal with formal employment through enforcement of stringent laws and regulations. Examining policy options and their consequences, the authors show that conventional regulatory and

Author: Colin C. Williams
Publisher: Zed Books
Keywords: capitalism, limits, mapping, world, commodified
Number of Pages: 75
Published: 2005-05-20
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1842773550
ISBN-13: 9781842773550

This book critiques the notion that in Late Capitalism all economic relations become always ever more commodified, while non-capitalist activities disappear. It demonstrates that a combination of new cultures of resistance all constrain this tendency or even threaten to reverse it. Colin Williams finds that, even in the advanced economies, a non-commodified realm persists that is as large as the commodified sphere and growing relative to it. He draws on extensive empirical evidence of trends and new patterns of economic activity - including changes in women’s participation, differences b

Author: Colin H. Williams
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Keywords: multilingual, matters, territory, society, minorities, linguistic
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1991-06
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1853591319
ISBN-13: 9781853591310

Companion volume to "Language in Geographic Context", this book reflects the growing interest of geographers in language. It presents recent findings in geolinguistics, discussing the opportunities and conflicts faced by linguistic minorities in their attempts to influence the structure of the modern state in Europe and North America. It explores the relationship between territorial identity, social change and economic development in multilingual societies.

Author: Colin C. Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: development, economic, services, consumer
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1997-05-19
List price: $67.95
ISBN-10: 0415145058
ISBN-13: 9780415145053

Consumer Services have been viewed as parasitic activities, dependent on other sectors of the economy for their viability and vitality. Yet local economic policy is now looking towards consumer services to solve severe economic problems. The rapid expansion of the service sector is now a principal feature of contemporary global economic restructuring. Consumer Services and Economic Development evaluates the contributions that consumer services can make to local economic development and revitalisation. A broad range of consumer service industries are examined in turn: tourism, sports, universit