Product Description: Traditional trade union structures have been slow to realise the capabilities of new information technology in respect of the globalisation of labour. Yet the co-ordinative capabilities of international labour with the advent of the Internet are radically enhanced as the actions of workers in the international transport sector demonstrate...read more

Product Description: Social inclusion/exclusion has only recently emerged in transport-related discourse. Despite the apparent absence of a transport policy framework for social inclusion/exclusion, there has been some movement towards a greater understanding of the social aspects of transport in the research sphere...read more

Product Description: Networked technologies have become widespread: in workplaces, at home, and in transport, connecting providers of products and services with consumers, and linking government with the governed. The distributed nature of such technologies, their non-hierarchical structure and widespread availability, affords modes of access to information, for its creation and transmission as well as reception and consumption...read more

Product Description: This text provides an overview of gender NGO activity in Africa in the run up to and post-Beijing. The development and contents of this African Platform for Action is examined and specific elements commented upon by six African female authors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a sociological picture of the ways in which female traders operate in Ghana. It covers transport, household organization, spontaneous co-operation, accessibility for porterage and head loading, the use of the bicycle, family patterns, education for girls and elderly women traders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Workers' Dilemmas reexamines the relationships between social networks and labour markets. The author argues provocatively about the ways in which work patterns, family structure and community networks interrelate.

Product Description: Questions the extent to which urban transport investment projects can be viewed as either generating economic development or resolving the problem of congestion. This report was designed to assist planners assess the key arguments of this debate without undertaking individual research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Family networks find their members jobs, and support them in chain migrations; Margaret Grieco argues that, contrary to orthodox thinking, social networks continue to be of the highest importance in job search in contemporary industrial society.