Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Eberhard-Ruiz, Andreas / Merotto, Dino / Saliola, F. et al., Jobs for Development: Applying a Job Lens to Structural Change and Ecnomic Growth. 300 pp. 2023:12 (World Bank, US) <706-246>
ISBN 978-1-4648-2011-3 paper ¥9,185.- (税込) US$ 43.95

Maliszewska, Maryla / Winkler, Deborah, Leveraging Trade for More and Beter Jobs in Developing Countries. 200 pp. 2023:9 (World Bank, US) <706-251>
ISBN 978-1-4648-2012-0 paper ¥10,345.- (税込) US$ 49.50 *

This report examines the impacts of trade integration on the quantity and quality of jobs in developing countries and the underlying channels through which workers adjust. It also offers data, analytics, and a clear framework to help policymakers maximize the aggregate labor market gains from trade while minimizing adjustment costs for workers.

Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys / Robertson, Raymond (eds.), Exports to Improve Labor Markets in the Middle East and North Africa. (Middle East and North Africa Development Report) 188 pp. 2023:6 (World Bank, US) <706-271>
ISBN 978-1-4648-1972-8 paper ¥9,185.- (税込) US$ 43.95 *

Pettit, Harry, The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt. 224 pp. 2023:11 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <706-336>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3653-8 hard ¥20,196.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-3744-3 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as declines in employment and widening inequality are pushing more and more people into insecurity and hardship. In Egypt, a generation of young men desire fulfilling employment, meaningful relationships, and secure family life, yet find few paths to achieve this. The Labor of Hope follows these educated but underemployed men as they struggle to establish careers and build satisfying lives. In so doing, this book reveals the lived contradiction at the heart of capitalist systems-the expansive dreams they encourage and the precarious lives they produce. Harry Pettit follows young men as they engage a booming training, recruitment, and entrepreneurship industry that sells the cruel meritocratic promise that a good life is realizable for all. He considers the various ways individuals cultivate distraction and hope for future mobility: education, migration, consumption, and prayer. These hope-filled practices are a form of emotional labor for young men, placing responsibility on the individual rather than structural issues in Egypt's economy. Illuminating this emotional labor, Pettit shows how the capitalist economy continues to capture the attention of the very people harmed by it.