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

Brown, Trent / De Neve, Geert (eds.), The Social Life of Skills in the Global South. (ThirdWorlds) 230 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-270>
ISBN 978-1-041-02255-8 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book expands understandings of how skills are defined, acquired, and utilized in global South contexts. Skills' and 'skill development' are increasingly prominent focal points for governments in the global South and international development bodies. Yet, policymakers and practitioners promoting skill development often overlook the everyday realities of how skills are learned and acquired, and how they are deployed and valued by individuals and communities. Frequently, they ignore the social and institutional barriers that prevent people from using their skills in meaningful or remunerative ways.By focusing on the 'the social life of skills', the chapters in this volume invite a broader conceptualization of skills, their development and their application in global South contexts. They explore four main areas of theorization and practice:1. The social and political processes by which certain types of work - and people - are labeled as 'skilled' or 'unskilled.'2. The different ways people acquire skills: formal, informal, and non-formal.3. The political economy of skills and skill development and their imbrication in forms of exploitation and intersecting inequalities.4. The role of skills in the expression of aspirations, identities, and agency.This book will appeal to students and researchers in the fields of development studies, sociology, anthropology, education, and labor studies, particularly those focusing on the global South. It will also appeal to policymakers, practitioners, and development organizations working on skill development and vocational training.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

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Powell, Benjamin, Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy. 2nd ed. (Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society) 238 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-314>
ISBN 978-1-009-50535-2 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-009-50536-9 paper ¥7,599.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99

Out of Poverty provides a comprehensive defence of Third World sweatshops that does not put economic efficiency over people, but instead explores methods of improving the welfare of those in Third World countries. The author explains how sweatshops provide the best opportunity for workers; and how they play an important role in development, leading to better wages and working conditions. Using economic theory, empirical evidence, and historical investigation, Powell argues that the anti-sweatshop movement would harm the very workers it intends to help by creating less-desirable alternatives and undermining development. Including a new chapter on the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, this revised and expanded second edition also explores how sweatshop wages have changed and how poverty alleviation has progressed in countries with sweatshops in the late 1990s and early 2000s and how boycotting Uyghur forced labor in China differs other sweatshop boycotts.

Steiler, Ilona, Processes of Economic Informalization: Reconfigurations of Law, Labour, and the State. (Rethinking Globalizations) 184 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-315>
ISBN 978-1-032-27792-9 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Grounded on an analysis of informalized labour in the urban economy of Dar es Salaam, Processes of Economic Informalization explores the conceptual politics involved in the political construction of the informal economy - diverse economic activities that are not regulated or protected by the state, now estimated to make up more than sixty per cent of all employment worldwide.The author draws attention to the dynamic political, legal, and social processes shaping the formal-informal boundary. Fundamentally, the book argues that 'informal economy' presents a normative and essentially contested concept which is implicated into reconfigurations of legal institutions, labour organization and struggle, and practices of state governance. Based on interviews, ethnographic notes, and a review of policy documents and current academic literature, it illustrates how competing conceptions of the informal economy serve to normalize and justify but also contest specific forms of capitalist accumulation processes and social order. Highlighting the thorny role conceptions of the informal economy play in its construction as well as in its governance, the book makes a timely intervention that challenges conventional positions in the debate on the appropriate regulation of informalized labour.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of global political economy, international relations, labour studies, and development studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.