Author: Lee G. BurchinalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adolescence
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Rural Youth in Crisis
Author: Lee G. BurchinalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adolescence
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Rural Youth in Crisis
Author: Lee G. BurchinalRural Youth in Crisis. Facts, Myths and Social Change. Edited by Lee G. Burchinal, Etc
Author: United States. Office of Juvenile Delinquency and Youth DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Rural Youth in crisis
Author: Rural Youth in Crisis: Facts, Myths, and Social Change
Author: United States. Office of Juvenile Delinquency and Youth DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural youth
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Rural Youth in Crisis
Author: Lee G. BurchinalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sociology, Rural
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Rural Youth in Crisis
Author: Lee G. BurchinalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adolescence
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Invisible China
Author: Scott RozellePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022674051X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A study of how China’s changing economy may leave its rural communities in the dust and launch a political and economic disaster. As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China, the truth is much more complicated and might be a serious cause for concern. China’s growth has relied heavily on unskilled labor. Most of the workers who have fueled the country’s rise come from rural villages and have never been to high school. While this national growth strategy has been effective for three decades, the unskilled wage rate is finally rising, inducing companies inside China to automate at an unprecedented rate and triggering an exodus of companies seeking cheaper labor in other countries. Ten years ago, almost every product for sale in an American Walmart was made in China. Today, that is no longer the case. With the changing demand for labor, China seems to have no good back-up plan. For all of its investment in physical infrastructure, for decades China failed to invest enough in its people. Recent progress may come too late. Drawing on extensive surveys on the ground in China, Rozelle and Hell reveal that while China may be the second-largest economy in the world, its labor force has one of the lowest levels of education of any comparable country. Over half of China’s population—as well as a vast majority of its children—are from rural areas. Their low levels of basic education may leave many unable to find work in the formal workplace as China’s economy changes and manufacturing jobs move elsewhere. In Invisible China, Rozelle and Hell speak not only to an urgent humanitarian concern but also a potential economic crisis that could upend economies and foreign relations around the globe. If too many are left structurally unemployable, the implications both inside and outside of China could be serious. Understanding the situation in China today is essential if we are to avoid a potential crisis of international proportions. This book is an urgent and timely call to action that should be read by economists, policymakers, the business community, and general readers alike. Praise for Invisible China “Stunningly researched.” —TheEconomist, Best Books of the Year (UK) “Invisible China sounds a wake-up call.” —The Strategist “Not to be missed.” —Times Literary Supplement (UK) “[Invisible China] provides an extensive coverage of problems for China in the sphere of human capital development . . . the book is rich in content and is not constrained only to China, but provides important parallels with past and present developments in other countries.” —Journal of Chinese Political Science
War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone
Author: Krijn PetersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139497391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The armed conflict in Sierra Leone and the extreme violence of the main rebel faction - the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - have challenged scholars and members of the international community to come up with explanations. Up to this point, though, conclusions about the nature of the war are mainly drawn from accounts of civilian victims and commentators who had access to only one side of the war. The present study addresses this currently incomplete understanding of the conflict by focusing on the direct experiences and interpretations of protagonists, paying special attention to the hitherto neglected, and often underage, cadres of the RUF. The data presented challenges the widely canvassed notion of the Sierra Leone conflict as a war motivated by 'greed, not grievance'. Rather, it points to a rural crisis expressed in terms of unresolved tensions between landowners and marginalized rural youth, further reinforced and triggered by a collapsing patrimonial state.
Rural Youth in the Present Crisis
Author: Young Men's Christian AssociationsPublisher:
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Category : Peasants
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Includes articles on the present agricultural crisis, rural movement in China, rural problem in Africa, evolution of the peasantry, village work of the Indian YMCA, older boys in rural Switzerland, and other articles.