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Although Patricia M. Boyer won a scholarship to McMaster University with the highest mathematics marks in Ontario and graduated at age 19, literature and languages were her specialty. She first worked as a public librarian, next as a secondary school teacher, then as a newspaper editor. A community leader in arts and theatre, Patricia was devoted to human rights action in her local community and around the world, church work, drama, the education of children with disabilities, and music. Each week she wrote a newspaper column inspired by episodes in the world around her, both local and global. She rewarded readers through articles infused with learning from literature, astute sensibility to human psychology, and balanced insights on the tragedies and comedies of life’s passing parade. Patricia Boyer summed up her approach to life as «optimistic realism». This collection of the best of her celebrated columns, organized through the twelve months of the year or «the march of days», includes reflections on seasonal celebrations, changing atmospheres of nature, and calendar milestones in the human cycle. A number of these concise yet poignant writings will move many readers with nostalgia as they evoke the happy events and tragic developments of the Sixties and Seventies. All of them, however, convey the wisdom of a woman whose message of optimistic realism endures like a timeless guide to living a satisfying life in the real world today.

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Die Schriftenreihe Innovatives Wissensmanagement stellt der Wissenschaft sowie der Wirtschaftspraxis aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse, innovative Lösungsansätze sowie Fallstudien in der Schnittmenge der Disziplinen Innovations- und Wissensmanagement zur Verfügung.

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As the economic crisis continues to ravage the globe, increasing numbers are looking for alternatives to the market.The Chicago Teachers Union, Walmart workers, Longshoreman on the West Coast, and many other labor struggles have recently broken out across the US. This has sent many searching for a better understanding of labor history, Marxism , and the future of of the labor movement. A social media campaign will be launched in support of the book. Reviews will be sought in left publications such as the Nation, the Indypendent, and In These TimesPolemics around the rank-and-file

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Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all. The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South African Review demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy, crippling the quest for social justice, polarising the politics, skewing economic outcomes and bringing devastating environmental consequences in their wake. Contributors survey the extent and consequences of inequality across fields as diverse as education, disability, agrarian reform, nuclear geography and small towns, and tackle some of the most difficult social, political and economic issues. How has the quest for greater equality affected progressive political discourse? How has inequality reproduced itself, despite best intentions in social policy, to the detriment of the poor and the historically disadvantaged? How have shifts in mining and the financialisation of the economy reshaped the contours of inequality? How does inequality reach into the daily social life of South Africans, and shape the way in which they interact? How does the extent and shape of inequality in South Africa compare with that of other major countries of the global South which themselves are notorious for their extremes of wealth and poverty? South African extremes of inequality reflect increasing inequality globally, and The Crisis of Inequality will speak to all those _ general readers, policy makers, researchers and students _ who are demanding a more equal world.

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This fifth volume in the New South African Review series takes as its starting point the shock wave emanating from the events at Marikana on 16 August 2012 and how it has reverberated throughout politics and society. Some of the chapters in the volume refer directly to Marikana. In others, the infl uence of that fateful day is pervasive if not direct. Marikana has, for instance, made us look differently at the police and at how order is imposed on society. Monique Marks and David Bruce write that the massacre ?has come to hold a central place in the analysis of policing, and broader political events since 2012?. The chapters highlight a range of current concerns _ political, economic and social. David Dickinson?s chapter looks at the life of the poor in a township from within. In contrast, the chapter on foreign policy by Garth le Pere analyses South Africa?s approach to international relations in the Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma eras. Anthony Turton?s account, ?When gold mining ends? is a chilling forecast of an impending environmental catastrophe. Both Devan Pillay and Noor Nieftagodien focus attention on the left and, in different ways, ascribe its rise to a new politics in the wake of Marikana. The essays in NSAR 5: Beyond Marikana present a range of topics and perspectives of interest to general readers, but the book will also be a useful work of reference for students and researchers.

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In the face of the continuing national tragedy of the inequality, poverty and unemployment which have triggered rising working-class discontent around the country, the ANC announced a ?second phase? of the ?national democratic revolution? to deal with the challenges. Ironically, the ANC post-Mangaung has resolved to preserve the core tenets of the minerals-energy-financial complex that defined racial capitalism _ while at the same time ratcheting up the revolutionary rhetoric to keep the working class and marginalised onside. If the ?first phase? was a tragedy of the unmet expectations of the majority, is the ?second phase? likely to be a farce? The chapters in this volume are written by experts in their fields and address issues of politics, power and social class; economy, ecology and labour; public policy and social practice; and South Africa beyond its borders. They examine some of these challenges, and indicate that they are as much about the defective content of policies as their poor implementation. The third volume of the New South African Review continues the series by providing in-depth analyses of the key issues facing the country today.

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Der vorliegende Band erscheint innerhalb der Reihe Chinesische Perspektiven: Ökonomie, in der in Zusammenarbeit mit führenden chinesischen Verlagen grundlegende und einflussreiche Werke, die den Diskurs in China prägen, erstmals einem deutschsprachigen Publikum zugänglich gemacht werden.
Taichang Wu und Li Wu geben einen umfassenden Überblick über die Entwicklung des chinesischen Staatskapitals von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Angefangen bei den frühen Eingriffen in die Wirtschaft und der direkten Regie des Gewerbes durch den chinesischen Feudalstaat über die ganze Neuzeit bis hin zu den Staatsbetrieben des neuen China untersuchen sie die Entwicklungen und Besonderheiten von über 2000 Jahren chinesischem Staatskapital.
Kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Traditionen spiegeln sich in nationalen Besonderheiten wider. Auch bei einem kritischen Verhältnis zu Traditionen und der prinzipiellen Möglichkeit, sie allmählich zu verändern, können diese dennoch weder einfach abgeschnitten noch ignoriert werden: Die aktuelle wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Chinas kann nicht ohne ihre historischen Wurzeln erklärt werden. Die prägenden Merkmale Chinas liegen in den nationalen Besonderheiten und den Traditionen des Landes. Aus der Auseinandersetzung mit der Vergangenheit heraus beschreiben und erklären die Autoren die Gegenwart Chinas.
Taichang Wu und Li Wu arbeiten dabei zwei historische Schlüsselfaktoren für das gegenwärtige Wirtschaftssystem Chinas heraus: die ungewöhnlich lange Existenz einer Feudalwirtschaft und, damit verbunden, die nur langsame Entwicklung kapitalistischer Wirtschaftsstrukturen. Sie zeigen, dass die historischen wirtschaftlichen Funktionsweisen des zentralisierten Feudalstaates bis heute wirken und einen tiefgreifenden Einfluss auf die Struktur von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft Chinas haben.
Ein unverzichtbares Werk für jeden, der Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Chinas verstehen will.

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The death of Nelson Mandela on 5 December 2013 was in a sense a wake-up call for South Africans, and a time to reflect on what has been achieved since ‘those magnificent days in late April 1994’ (as the editors of this volume put it) ‘when South Africans of all colours voted for the first time in a democratic election’. In a time of recall and reflection it is important to take account, not only of the dramatic events that grip the headlines, but also of other signposts that indicate the shape and characteristics of a society. The New South African Review looks, every year, at some of these signposts, and the essays in this fourth volume of the series again examine and analyse a broad spectrum of issues affecting the country. They tackle topics as diverse as the state of organised labour; food retailing; electricity generation; access to information; civil courage; the school system; and – looking outside the country to its place in the world – South Africa’s relationships with north-east Asia, with Israel and with its neighbours in the southern African region. Taken together, these essays give a multidimensional perspective on South Africa’s democracy as it turns twenty, and will be of interest to general readers while being particularly useful to students and researchers.

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In this second volume of the New South African Review, the New Growth Path adopted by the South African government in 2010 provides the basis for a dialogue about whether ‘decent work’ is the best solution to South Africa’s problems of low economic growth and high unemployment. There are investigations into rising inequality against the backdrop of the failings of Black Economic Empowerment; ‘greening the economy’, with emphasis on biofuels; the crisis of acid mine drainage on the Witwatersrand; possibilities for participatory forms of government; civil society activism; transformation of the print media and the SABC; the crisis in child care in public hospitals; the relationship between the police and a township community; the problems related to the absence of legislation to govern the powers of traditional authorities over land allocation; and assessments of the state of opposition political parties and the ANC Alliance. Asking whether the New Growth Plan reflects a set of new policies or an attempt to re-dress old (com)promises in new clothes, this volume brings together different voices in debate about possibilities for alternatives to neo-liberal and capitalist development in South Africa.

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